When the state trembled : how A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee broke the Winnipeg General Strike / Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Reinhold, 1959- author.

Mitchell, Tom, 1949- author.

Series:

Canadian social history series.

Canadian social history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andrews, A. J. (Alfred Joseph), 1865-1950.

Citizens' Committee of One Thousand (Winnipeg, Man.)--History.

General Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 1919.

Manitoba--Winnipeg.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Place of Publication:

TToronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This account, by the authors of the award-winning Walk Towards the Gallows, reveals that the Citizens drew upon and extended a wide repertoire of anti-labour tactics to undermine working-class unity, battle for the hearts and minds of the middle class, and stigmatize the general strike as a criminal action. Newly discovered correspondence between leading Citizen lawyer A.J. Andrews and Acting Minister of Justice Arthur Meighen illuminates the strategizing and cooperation that took place between the state and the Citizens. While the strike's break was a crushing defeat for the labour movement, the later prosecution of its leaders on charges of sedition reveals abiding fears of radicalism and continuing struggles between capital and labour on the terrain of politics and law."--Pub. desc.

"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 the status quo.

Contents:

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

14. Duty to God, Country, and Family: The Russell Trial.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781442660229

1442660228

9781442690394

1442690399

OCLC:

755882788