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The strike began exactly at May 15, 1919 11.00am, Thursday after the ballot in which the favourable trade unionists outnumbered the people against the strike. Very soon after the strike began, the mail, newspapers, taxis, telephone, streetcar, telegraph, gasoline milk delivery and other services were stopped. 25,000 to 30,000 Winnipeg workers went on a general strike.

 

 The metal workers struck the Vulcan Iron Works, Manitoba Bridge and Iron, and the Dominion Bridge and Iron companies.

 Great War Veterans Association Parade, Winnipeg, 4 June 1919

 

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