Talk:Winnipeg general strike

message: The article seems to be completely messed up.  Why does the majority of the article discuss strike actions in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada when the article is about the strike that occurred in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada?  It makes no sense!  This would be like have the majority of the article about the Hurricane Katrina Disaster in New Orleans explaining the 1907 Earthquake in San Francisco. --Jason Savage   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.188.168.12 (talk) 16:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have looked at a couple of sources, including Canadian History for Dummies and the Canadian Museum of Civilization website and I can not find a reference that 94 were injured.  Where did this number come from?  I will update the stats to reflect what I have been able to find.  -- JamesTeterenko 04:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers for deaths & injuries on Bloody Saturday 

message: Or "something"; I remember one of our diehard NDPer schoolteachers talking about strike, and that there was a manifesto or constitution or something, published in several languages, implying the potential creation of a worker's republic.  I know this must have been a fringe element only, judging by the article overleaf, but I'm curious as to which languages and what was in it.  On the other hand, there's lots of bowdlerized/toned-down Canadian history all over Wiki...or was this teacher just raving in technicolour?Skookum1 16:29, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: An organization called the "Winnipeg Soviet" was proclaimed (a Soviet is a council of workers), but Google has only a few oblique references to the term. I don't believe it was actually proclaimed as a republic, but the potential was there. I'll add some information to the article when I get good refs, but your teacher was not raving in technicolour. Eleland 20:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wasn't there a Winnipeg Manifesto? 

message: "a young boy was accidentally killed early in the strike". what kind of accident? Jackzhp 00:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: accident?

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support.  I have always seen it with caps.  I also note that the Canadian Press Stylebook () requires that it be capitalized (page 212).  BTW, the title does not require "1919", but at the very least the title should not commence with 1919!  Skeezix1000 14:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Quoting article:
"With the cost of living rising due to the inflation caused by World War I, the City of Winnipeg's teamsters, electrical workers, water works employees and office workers approached City Council in April 1919 for a wage increase. Their proposal was rejected and City Council offered the four departments war bonuses, with a promise to revisit the topic after the war."
A promise to "revisit the topic after the war" doesn't make sense, IMO.  April 1919 WAS "after the war".
Wanderer57 (talk) 03:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How's that again? 

message: This line in the intro:
"Although many Canadian companies had enjoyed enormous profits on World War I contracts, wages and working conditions were dismal and labour regulations were mostly non-existent."
gives me pause.  While it may be demonstrable that labour regulations were "mostly non-existant" (although it hasn't been shown in this article) saying working conditions were dismal seems like a judgment call and a matter of opinion, which is not how an article should be written.  If examples of poor working conditions exist, they should be stated as the facts they are, not described in vague, condemning language.  Does anyone disagree?  Can I remove the sentence or modify it to be less opinion based?  TastyCakes (talk) 14:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line in intro 

message: The "causes" section seems to suggest that the strike began with electrical workers fighting with the city, however from everything I've read this is not the case. According to most of the literature I've seen it was started by the Metal Trades Council and the Winnipeg Building Trades Council both of whom were fighting for the right of collective bargaining.
Haikud'etat (talk) 01:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  problems: 

message: Note that there used to be popular rock band known as 'One Big Union' that toured around mid-Canada in the late 1980's and early 90's.  The band took its name from the strike.  The leader and singer of this band, Trevor Hayhurst, eventually changed his surname to "Hurst" and formed 'Econoline Crush'. (89.241.229.243 (talk) 20:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add to section "Commemorations in Popular Culture"? 

message: The section on “Violence” can be expanded, especially with the recent article in the Winnipeg Free Press “History Revisited: New Photos of the Winnipeg General Strike Offer Different Perspective on Seminal Event” (September 29, 2011). The article discusses what ignited the violence on Bloody Saturday (the mounted-police or the strikers attacking the streetcar) from the perspective of newly uncovered photographs in the Manitoba Archives. Should this subsection be updated? MXYXYM (talk) 18:20, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add to subsection "Violence"? 

message: There are a number of paragraphs in the article that have no or very few citations. Specifically, in the following sections:
* Cause
* Settlement
* Organization
* Opposition
* Aftermath
* Role of women
* Historiography
Please do not remove the maintenance tag until these issues have been resolved. Thanks. —howcheng  {chat} 08:14, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs more references