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| In what year was the Winnipeg General Strike? |
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| How many workers left their jobs within hours after the call for a general strike? |
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| Public Sector employees including police officers, fire fighters, postal workers, and telephone operators? |
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| Why did Ottawa intervene in the Winnipeg General Strike? |
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| To ensure that confrontations did not take place in other cities (spillover effect). |
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| What fueled labour unrest after WWI (914-1918)? |
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| Massive Unemployment, Inflation, Success of the Russian Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution) in 1917, and rising Revolutionary Industrial Unionism. |
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| The General Strike left a legacy of ______________ and ___________________ among organized labour groups across Canada. |
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| Bitterness and Controversy |
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