Levine: Jews and the Winnipeg General Strike

Levine: Jews and the Winnipeg General Strike

May 15, 2019 Opinion, West

On the morning of May 15, 1919, approximately 30,000 workers in Winnipeg walked off their jobs. Allan Levine chronicles what happened next in the Winnipeg General Strike.

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