PDF⋙ When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Canadian Social History) by Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell
When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Canadian Social History) by Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Canadian Social History) by Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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. 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...