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Monday, April 29, 2019

1919 
WAS THE YEAR OF GENERAL STRIKES
 ACROSS THE WORLD
IN NORTH AMERICA THEY BEGAN WITH 
SEATTLE







Seattle General Strike - University of Washington
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The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first twentieth century solidarity strike in the United States to be proclaimed a “general strike.” It led off a ...
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Seattle General Strike: Industrial Workers of The World
depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/anderson.shtml
The Seattle General Strike is an event very important in the history of the Pacific Northwest. On February 6, 1919 Seattle workers became the first workers in ...


Setting the record straight on the 1919 Seattle General Strike | The ...
https://www.seattletimes.com/.../setting-the-record-straight-on-the-1919-seattle-general-st...
Feb 6, 2019 - In 1919, Seattle's General Strike shut down the city for 6 days — but in the 100 years since, its stories have grown a little murky.


Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new .
theconversation.com/why-the-seattle-general-strike-of-1919-should-inspire-a-new-ge...
Feb 6, 2019 - It was the Seattle General Strike of 1919, which began on Feb. 6 and lasted just five days. By many measures, the strike was a failure. It didn't ...


Seattle General Strike: Labor's Most Spectacular Revolt | Labor Notes
https://labornotes.org/2019/02/seattle-general-strike-labors-most-spectacular-revolt
Feb 6, 2019 - On February 6, 1919, Seattle's workers struck—all of them. In doing so they took control of the city. The strike was in support of 35000 shipyard ...


Seattle's 1919 General Strike Ignited a Labor Movement - CityLab
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/02/seattle-general-strike-1919-labor.../582424/
Feb 8, 2019 - The Seattle General Strike paralyzed the city for six days. After 101 of 110 local unions affiliated with the Central Labor Council voted for the ...


What the Seattle General Strike can teach workers today | Opinion
https://crosscut.com/2019/01/what-seattle-general-strike-can-teach-workers-today
Jan 30, 2019 - As the 100th anniversary of the Seattle General Strike draws near at a time when present-day activists, advocates, everyday workers and civic ...


Seattle: The 1919 General Strike | International Socialist Review
https://isreview.org/issue/84/seattle-1919-general-strike
The United States has one of the richest histories of class struggle in the world. One of the best examples is the Seattle General Strike of 1919. Unfortunately for ...


Seattle General Strike, 1919 - HistoryLink.org
https://www.historylink.org/File/861
Feb 4, 1999 - The Seattle General Strike began at 10 a.m. on February 6, 1919, and paralyzed the city for five days. Never before had the nation seen a labor ...


How the Seattle General Strike of 1919 shut down the city
https://mynorthwest.com/1252370/seattle-general-strike-1919/
Jan 23, 2019 - More than 65000 workers walked off the job for the Seattle General Strike of 1919. But many history students don't hear anything about it.


[PDF]The Seattle General Strike of 1919 - America in Class
americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/prosperity/text6/seattlestrike.pdf
For six days in February 1919, the first “general strike” in American history paralyzed the port city of Seattle, Washington. Two weeks earlier, the shipyard ...


Everything You Need to Know About the General Strike that Shut ...
inthesetimes.com/working/.../1919_seattle_general_strike_anniversary_labor_unions
Feb 6, 2019 - On February 6, 1919, the city of Seattle ground to a halt as 60,000 workers walked off the job in a general strike that would last 6 days. Workers ...


Seattle, “the Soviet of Washington” - Jacobin
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/seattle-general-strike-iww-labor-revolution
Oct 3, 2018 - Decades before Amazon dominated the city, Seattle was the fiery site of labor unrest, radical action — and the US's only true general strike.


The Seattle General Strike: Robert L Friedheim: Amazon.com: Books
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100 years after Seattle 1919: Is the general strike making a comeback ...
https://www.peoplesworld.org/.../100-years-after-seattle-1919-is-the-general-strike-ma...
Feb 7, 2019 - A new film, commemorating centennial of the Great Seattle General Strike of 1919, plus a panel of experts in worker history and rights, tackled ...




1919: The Seattle general strike - Libcom.org
https://libcom.org/history/1919-the-seattle-general-strike
Sep 10, 2006 - A general strike of 100,000 workers, which saw the city shut down and all essential services provided under workers' control. The First World ...


The Seattle General Strike of 1919 | Department of History
https://history.uoregon.edu/__trashed-2/
Feb 6, 2019 - This week marked the 100-year anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, a five-day period that saw nearly half of the city's workforce walking ...


What was socialism like during the Seattle General Strike? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/what-is-socialism-seattle-strike
Feb 25, 2019 - In February 1919, most of the various trade unions of Seattle voted to begin a general strike. Ostensibly in support of striking longshoremen, the ...


Seattle General Strike - Verso
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2913-seattle-general-strike
Seattle_general_strike. Seattle General Strike. The Forgotten History of Labor's Most Spectacular Revolt. by Cal Winslow. Paperback; Ebook; Hardback.


OPINION: 1919 Seattle General Strike Exemplified Solidarity | South ...
https://southseattleemerald.com/.../opinion-1919-seattle-general-strike-exemplified-sol...
Feb 7, 2019 - by Teresa Mosqueda and April Sims This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, a five-day solidarity work ...


The Seattle Worker February 2019: Seattle General Strike Centennial ...
https://itsgoingdown.org › History
Feb 19, 2019 - The Seattle local of the IWW presents a new issue of their publication, celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Seattle general strike.


What was socialism like during the Seattle General Strike? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/what-is-socialism-seattle-strike
Feb 25, 2019 - In February 1919, most of the various trade unions of Seattle voted to begin a general strike. Ostensibly in support of striking longshoremen, the ...


Seattle General Strike - Verso
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2913-seattle-general-strike
Seattle_general_strike. Seattle General Strike. The Forgotten History of Labor's Most Spectacular Revolt. by Cal Winslow. Paperback; Ebook; Hardback.


OPINION: 1919 Seattle General Strike Exemplified Solidarity | South ...
https://southseattleemerald.com/.../opinion-1919-seattle-general-strike-exemplified-sol...
Feb 7, 2019 - by Teresa Mosqueda and April Sims This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, a five-day solidarity work ...


When Workers Ran the City: The 1919 Seattle General Strike https://www.academia.edu/38300593/When_Workers_Ran_the_City_The_1919_Seattle_General_Strike?source=swp_


Topic: Seattle General Strike - History Day at Special Collections ...
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Apr 12, 2019 - History Day at Special Collections: Topic: Seattle General Strike. Special Collections is a great resource for all your Pacific Northwest primary ...


Seattle workers general strike for fair wages, 1919 | Global Nonviolent ...
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/.../seattle-workers-general-strike-fair-wages-1919
The Seattle General Strike was the first general strike in the U.S. and marked the beginning of a post-WWI era of labor conflict. Conditions for a general strike in ...



Seattle General Strike, 1919: "Nothing moved but the tide" - Freedom ...
https://socialism.com/fs-article/seattle-general-strike-1919-nothing-moved-but-the-tide/
For six euphoric days a century ago, Seattle's workers took over and ran the city. Industry barons trembled. “All of Seattle was silenced as organized labor went ...


The Seattle General Strike and the "Great Red Scare" | AHA
https://www.historians.org/.../the-seattle-general-strike-and-the-great-red-scare
The first of these is on the Seattle General Strike of 1919. We begin with an archive of editorial cartoons at CUNY and two representative statements from public ...


When workers' power ran Seattle | SocialistWorker.org
https://socialistworker.org/2019/02/06/when-workers-power-ran-seattle
Feb 6, 2019 - ONE HUNDRED years ago, workers in Seattle not only shut their city down with a general strike, but they ran it for five days, from February 6-11 ...


Book Review: Labor History: The Seattle General Strike - Vernon H ...
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Book Review: Labor History: The Seattle General Strike. Show all authors. Vernon H. Jensen · Vernon H. Jensen. Professor New York State School of Industrial ...


Seattle General Strike | The American Historical Review | Oxford ...
https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/71/1/334/69611
by HG Gutman - ‎1965
Herbert G. Gutman; The Seattle General Strike, The American Historical Review, Volume 71, Issue 1, 1 October 1965, Pages 334, ...


Sunday Video: Seattle General Strike of 1919 | The Urbanist
https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/09/03/sunday-video-seattle-general-strike-1919/
Sep 3, 2017 - Seattle made history in 1919 with the first general strike in American history. The strike stemmed from the industrial boom of World War I during ...


Book Reviews : The Seattle General Strike. By ROBERT L ...
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Book Reviews : The Seattle General Strike. By ROBERT L. FRIEDHEIM. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964.) Show all authors. John E. Crow.



SEE OTD 100 YEARS AGO THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE BEGAN https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2019/05/this-day-in-history-100-years-ago-today.html
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019



THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 100 YEARS AGO TODAY THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE BEGAN
MAY 15, 1919 remains the most important date in the history of Canadian workers to date. On that day, 35,000 Winnipeg workers, only one third of them unionized, went on strike in solidarity with the city's metal and construction trades workers who had been striking since May 1 for the right to bargain collectively with employers in their trade. The employers, themselves negotiating as a bloc, refused, insisting that they would only negotiate with individual trades. They wanted to keep their workers divided so as to keep them weak relative to the united employer class.
The day began with the non-unionized telephone operators, the "hello girls," declaring their support for the strike and refusing to work despite employer threats to fire anyone who joined the strike. Later, the "salesgirls" at Eaton's and other stores, all non-unionized, as well as a variety of other non-unionized workers in the public and private sectors joined the unions in withholding their labour. In a city of about 180,000, a majority of families counted someone who was on strike.

A Strike Committee was formed to liaise with Winnipeg city council and the mayor about what essential services would be offered in Winnipeg while the workers continued their strike for just treatment of all workers. At the council's request, the Strike Committee agreed that vehicles used by workers deemed essential would be marked "Authorized by the Strike Committee" so that strikers would not see them as scabs and perhaps harass them. The so-called Citizens' Committee of 1000, which formed to represent the interests of the city's bourgeoisie of owners and professionals, would later distort that label to suggest that the Strike Committee had usurped power to run the city from the city council. The employers were determined to give no concessions to the striking workers and indeed to break the back of unionism in Winnipeg. That would cause the Winnipeg strikers to call for general strikes in other cities in solidarity with the Winnipeg workers. Calgary and Edmonton responded to that call with month-long general strikes, though only unionists joined those two strikes.

The Winnipeg General Strike was the culmination of the frustration that most workers felt in the face of postwar unemployment accompanied by a continuation of the inflation that they experienced in wartime while their pay rates barely rose. They had managed a successful, short general strike in 1918 in the city and won concessions during a time when labour shortages and war needs weakened the position of employers. The Socialist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Industrial Workers of the World were all strong in Winnipeg and held huge public meetings to extol the idea of the One Big Union, an organization that would unite all workers and turn every strike into a general strike in order to strike fear into the hearts of greedy employers. The sense that World War I was a war of rival imperialists, not a just war, and that only capitalists had gained anything from it, all at the expense of working people, and continuing poverty, insecurity, and poor working conditions combined with the organizing skills of radicals persuaded most working Winnipegers that they had to take a public stand for social justice for workers.

The strike would be broken by brute state force on Bloody Saturday on June 21, 1919. But on May 15, there was a feeling of exhiliration among Winnipeg workers. They were standing shoulder to shoulder in an effort to tell their employers that they wanted either serious reforms to capital-labour relations or an end to capitalism altogether. They did not want to return to work until wage slavery had been replaced by an economy in which workers had dignity, security, and a say in how their workplace was run
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The Winnipeg general strike, 1919 - Sam Lowry - Libcom.org

https://libcom.org/history/1919-winnipeg-general-strike



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Winnipeg strikes
Workers' demands for rights and a living wage shook the nation over 42 days in 1919

By Darren Bernhardt
May 15, 2019

The lineups were agonizingly long for the few jobs available in 1919 Winnipeg, a city teeming with a ballooning population and choked by factory smokestacks.

Afraid of losing what jobs they could get, many workers suffered through dirty, dangerous conditions and long days.

Inflation was skyrocketing and so was unemployment as Winnipeg exploded into the third-largest city in Canada, drawing in thousands of immigrants who also made it the most ethnically diverse city in the country.

These were the conditions that set the stage for the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, an upheaval that brought few immediate gains but seeded the change that resulted in modern workers' rights.

"It was the most dramatic single event in Canadian labour history," author Donald D.C. Masters wrote in his book The Winnipeg General Strike.

The cost of living had gone up 75 per cent between 1913 and 1919. The average pay was $900 per year, yet it was estimated that $1,500 was needed to feed a family.

A large number of newcomers, hoping for a better life, instead found themselves salvaging scraps of wood and metal to slap together shacks in growing city slums.

"There were many impoverished people in Winnipeg. I think for many Canadians, it would be shocking to see those conditions," historian and strike expert Nolan Reilly said.
Working and living conditions were appalling for many people during the turn of the 20th century in Winnipeg.(Archives of Manitoba)


But something else also was taking root and beginning to flourish in Winnipeg —the union movement.

From 1900 to 1920, the number of unions in the city tripled and demands for a better life for workers steadily grew, said author Paul Moist, a former national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

"Life was hard for the average working-class family in Winnipeg. The general strike gave voice to the frustration felt by many," he said.

"The solidarity of the city’s workers, and their decision to elect strike leaders to a range of public offices, would forever alter and define the geopolitical map of the city."

In Winnipeg in 1917, more days of work were lost to strikes than in the previous four years combined, Moist said.
And while there were gains for workers, they were modest — a few extra cents in pay.




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The Edmonton General Strike of 1919 - Eugene Plawiuk - Libcom.org

https://libcom.org/library/edmonton-general-strike-1919-eugene-plawiuk



 Eugene Plawiuk's account of the Edmonton general strike of 1919 which was sparked off in solidarity with the general strike in Winnipeg,.

Calgary 1919: The Birth of the OBU and the General ... - Libcom.org

https://libcom.org/library/calgary-1919-birth-obu-general-strike-eugene-plawiuk



 Eugene Plawiuk's history of the Calgary general strike of 1919, which started off as a sympathy strike for the Winnipeg general strike and soon ...
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WAS THE YEAR OF GENERAL STRIKES
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