Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The Great Canadian Sedition Trials, 2nd ed. 15 benefit of legal hearings.Innocent Americans were persecuted without having committed any offence and many were brutally beaten.No h Ame ica econd gene al ike, imila in cha ac e o the Seattle strike, developed in Winnipeg, Manitoba on May 15, 1919.Winnipeg, located on the Canadian prairies, was then a city of 160,000 people.Newspapers around the world filled their pages with exaggerated stories of the Winnipeg General Strike, depicting a city in siege and streets rampant with bloodshed.And when the government made arrests, they described the strike leaders as conspirators, Bolsheviks, and revolutionaries.Was this a second attempt at Communist revolution in North America?In print, it certainly appeared true.Lurid headlines fed an insatiable public appetite for drama.The Red Scare was a mighty slingshot firing panic into an already turbulent sea and the waves would carve a destructive path throughout the western world.
Source: Manitoba Law Journal
DOI: 10.29173/mlj1165
Author: Manitoba Law Journal
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4396715997