Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the Spartacist uprising in Germany, labour unions in Canada grew increasingly militant.Campbell, Peter. "Understanding the dictatorship of the proletariat: the Canadian left and the moment Of socialist possibility in 1919." Labour/Le Travail, no. 64, 2009, p. 51+. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A214451830/GPS?u=ko_k12pr_d29&sid=GPS&xid=04bab208. Accessed 20 February 2021. The revolt commenced with the Vancouver general strike on 2 August 1918. The general strike was violently suppressed by the military, and union offices were ransacked. Victor Midgley, the leader of the strike, was thrown out of a window, and forced to kiss the British Flag.SEAGER, ALLEN, and DAVID ROTH. “British Columbia and the Mining West: A Ghost of a Chance.” The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925, edited by CRAIG HERON, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 231–267. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442682566.11. Accessed 20 February 2021. The suppression of the strike enraged the labour movement, with many labour leaders and union locals calling for revolution against the Canadian government. At the September 1918 national conference of The Trades and Labour Congress (TLC), the umbrella organization to which Canadian Unions belonged, A.S Wells, leader of the BC Federation of Labour said "we will have to have our industrial organization similar to that which has proven of such benefit in Russia." The growing radicalism was denounced by TLC.Campbell, Peter. "Understanding the dictatorship of the proletariat: the Canadian left and the moment Of socialist possibility in 1919." Labour/Le Travail, no. 64, 2009, p. 51+. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A214451830/GPS?u=ko_k12pr_d29&sid=GPS&xid=04bab208. Accessed 20 February 2021.
Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the Spartacist uprising in Germany, labour unions in Canada grew increasingly militant.Campbell, Peter. "Understanding the dictatorship of the proletariat: the Canadian left and the moment Of socialist possibility in 1919." Labour/Le Travail, no. 64, 2009, p. 51+. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A214451830/GPS?u=ko_k12pr_d29&sid=GPS&xid=04bab208. Accessed 20 February 2021. The revolt commenced with the Vancouver general strike on 2 August 1918. The general strike was violently suppressed by the military, and union offices were ransacked. Victor Midgley, the leader of the strike, was thrown out of a window, and forced to kiss the British Flag.SEAGER, ALLEN, and DAVID ROTH. “British Columbia and the Mining West: A Ghost of a Chance.” The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925, edited by CRAIG HERON, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 231–267. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442682566.11. Accessed 20 February 2021. The suppression of the strike enraged the labour movement, with many labour leaders and union locals calling for revolution against the Canadian government. At the September 1918 national conference of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (TLC), the umbrella organization to which Canadian Unions belonged, A.S Wells, leader of the BC Federation of Labour said "we will have to have our industrial organization similar to that which has proven of such benefit in Russia." The growing radicalism was denounced by TLC.Campbell, Peter. "Understanding the dictatorship of the proletariat: the Canadian left and the moment Of socialist possibility in 1919." Labour/Le Travail, no. 64, 2009, p. 51+. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A214451830/GPS?u=ko_k12pr_d29&sid=GPS&xid=04bab208. Accessed 20 February 2021.
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