Winnipeg General Strike ||This article needs additional
citations for verification. (October 2007)| In March 1919 labour
delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form
a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning
rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes. A
drastic amount of men and women- some unionised and some not
were all of different trades of skill and from different ethnic
backgrounds shared class solidarity of inequality in Canada and
wanted to achieve what was essential for themselves. Laying the
groundwork: general strike  |This section is empty. You can help
by adding to it. (November 2012)| End of the war  The immediate
post-war period in Canada was not a time of peace. Social
tensions grew as soldiers returned home to find large numbers of
immigrants crowded into cities and working at their former jobs.
High rates of unemployment among returned soldiers compounded
their resentment towards the immigrants. Along with the
soldiers, the Spanish influe