When the State Trembled : : How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike / / Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 18 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Permitted by Authority of the Strike Committee
  • 2 Who? Who? Who-oo?
  • 3 Seven Hundred and Four Years Ago at Runnymede
  • 4 The Anointing of A.J. Andrews
  • 5 The Flag-Flapping Stage
  • 6 To Reach the Leaders in This Revolutionary Movement
  • 7 Time to Act
  • 8 Enough Evidence to Convict the Whole Strike Committee
  • 9 The Road through Bloody Saturday
  • 10 The Only Way to Deal with Bolshevism
  • 11 They Are All Dangerous: Immigration Hearings
  • 12 They Started the Fire: Preliminary Hearing
  • 13 Poor Harry Daskaluk: The Settling of Accounts
  • 14 Duty to God, Country, and Family: The Russell Trial
  • Epilogue: Echo
  • Notes
  • Index