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Peel 4548: Winnipeg. General Strike. Defense Committee. 1919. The Winnipeg General Sympathetic Strike, May-June, 1919: Trial by jury destroyed by stampede forty-five minute legislation, workers arrested and rushed to penitentiary to smash strike, leading lawyers, members of Employers' Committee of 1000, engaged by federal government to prosecute workers: Strikes, arrests, trials, penitentiary: Prepared by the Defense Committee composed of delegates from the various labor organizations in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [Winnipeg]: Wallingford, [1919]. .

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