It was one of Winnipeg’s biggest highlights during that time period. There are many different views about why the strike initially happened, however; it is recognized as taking place due to a major dispute between metal workers and their bosses. It then quickly spread rapidly throughout Winnipeg’s working class citizens, spread by deeper problems over inflation, unemployment and turmoil (Bumsted 1). Bank, mail, food delivery services, newspapers, telephones, taxis, water, power and police and fire departments were cut off or significantly reduced during this time. The strike did not solely take place with the situation within Canada and the West but also there had been tension building for many years throughout the world before it occurred.
In many ways this helped fuel Russian Revolt. In addition, another contribution to the 1905 revolution was Bloody Sunday. For instance workers were unhappy with working conditions in factories with the unsafe and crowded environments that they were forced to work in. Low wages was another contributing factor leading to a priest – George Gapon – creating a petition to reduce working hours and gain the Tsar’s sympathy in order to improve conditions in workplaces. In 19__ Gapon led a large amount of workers to the Winter Palace on a peaceful march to present his petition to
The reactionary reign of Alexander III led to a tightening of government control and the persecution of minority groups, such as Jews, within the Empire. Another long-term cause of the 1905 Revolution was the worsening conditions of both peasants and urban workers. The famines in 1897, 1898 and 1901 had led to shortage and distress in the countryside. Living and working conditions in Russia’s industrial towns were no better. Workers worked in poorly ventilated factories for long hours and little pay.
In an attempt to increase their wages, industrial workers went on strike. The Tsar’s indecisiveness, the reality of him continuing the war against Germany although there were many thousands of casualties and the rest of Russia was starving due to the bad transportation systems, and the fact that he had broken his promises from the October Manifesto after the
The gathering took the form of a protest demonstration calling for “bread and peace.” While the demonstration began peacefully, the next morning it turned violent as the women were joined by hundreds of thousands of male workers who went on strike and flooded the streets, openly calling for an end to the war and even to the monarchy. Feeding on their outrage with each passing day, the demonstrations became larger and rowdier, and the outnumbered police were unable to control the crowds. With news of the unrest, Tsar Nicholas II, who was away visiting his troops on the front, sent a telegram to Petrograd’s military commander on February 25, ordering him to bring an end to the riots by the next day. In their efforts to carry out the tsar’s order, several troops of a local guard regiment fired upon the crowds on February 26. The regiment fell into chaos, as many soldiers felt more empathy for the crowds than for the tsar.
In The Beginning World War I started in 1914 and America entered in 1917 causing a labor shortage among men and women who had and did take over. The war tore families apart, forcing women to take on new roles in the work force. Approximately a million women filled the vacancies left by the men who were now overseas. Many of whom were young girls and wives that had once worked in department stores and restaurants, but left their jobs to raise families, now worked on the farms and in shipyards and factories. (Joyce Bryant 02.03.09) By late 1918, more and more women had taken over jobs once held by men.
Father Gapon carried the Workers Petition, in which the Peasants and working class people asked for assistance from the Tsar, by improving working conditions and reducing the hours required for working on their land. However, the result was not a peaceful demonstration but in some ways, a blood bath. The number of fatalities is not known, with different groups in society and the government reporting different numbers of deaths and injuries. The total number is still not known. News of the violent acts believed to have been ordered by the Tsar himself quickly spread throughout European Russia, initiating huge responses from the people, provoking a rebellion, which would involve over 400,000 people.
But they were mistaken and quickly subdued. The Urban Workforce in Russia had been unhappy for many years about the working and living conditions they had to put up with. These normally made up most of the numbers of strikes and rallies even though it was the middle
Between May and early June 1989, more than 200,000 soldiers from the Government’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) were stationed around Beijing. During this time, the party split over how to deal with the demonstrators. A hardline faction led by Deng Xiaoping proposed martial law, while a reform faction led by Zhao Ziyang attempted to convince the students to cease their protesting peacefully. The days between the 3rd and 4th of June became the climax of the protests, gaining widespread publicity. When the crowd had refused to disperse by the 4am deadline, troops began to fire on the protesters in order to clear the square for the impending visit of USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Chinese have contributed countless of efforts to build one of most important asset of the country, the Canadian Pacific Railways. The Chinese were mistreated by the Canadian government in many ways such as wages, basic needs, and job protections. Even after when the railway was completed, the Canadian government continues to impose further more segregation onto the Chinese from the general society. Actions like gradually incremented head taxes and elimination of their right to vote are things that the government has done. For these actions, Canada discriminated its own