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"When a sympathetic strike brought 30,000 Winnipeg workers off the job in May of 1919, it was bound to be linked in people's minds with the "red scare" of Bolshevism. Starting as a protest against inflation and the post-war slump, the Winnipeg General Strike became a confrontation unique in the country's history between working men and the wider society in which they felt entitled to play a larger part."--Portfolio