LABRST 1A03 Lecture 10: #10 - ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES
10 Nov 2016
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November 8+ 10, 2016 LABRST 1A03
ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES, OLD + NEW, PART 1
- Government Policy
o 1920s: Orthodoxy
▪ WLM King
o 1930s: More Orthodoxy
▪ Relief
o R.B. Bennett
▪ Relief Camps
▪ )ron (eel of Ruthlessness
o King Again
- Established Craft Unions
o 1920s
o 1930s
GOVERNMENT POLICY
1920s Orthodoxy:
- Orthodoxy → holding to establish views
- Canadian govn held to a very Orthodox view
William Lyon Mackenzie King:
- Prime Minister of 20s
- Most successful politician in history
- Extremely Orthodox
o Stalling…
▪ Stalled his way out of everything
1930s More Orthodoxy:
- Biggest economic crisis
- Even though there is economic problem, govn still staying Orthodox
- Early 30s PM ➔ R.B. Bennett
o Very Orthodox
o Govn doesnt get active!
▪ Will not spend $, wont interfere, etc.
Relief:
- Government didnt want to spend the money to relief the poor
- Sticking to the Orthodox view
- Not putting premium of unemployment
- System was completely… rigged!
▪ Designed that people cheating the system
▪ Spend $ monitoring the poor instead of giving the $ to the poor
Relief Camps:
- 1932-1933 → young unemployed men dont have jobs thus… R.B. putting
them into camps
- Only for young, unemployed men
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- Ran by department of national defense
- Men are given meaningless tasks to keep them BUSY
- Overall goal
→
keep them busy + keep them out of trouble
)ron (eel of Ruthlessness
- R.B. obsessed with CONTROL and ORDER
o Expecting citizens to support him too
King Again:
- R.B. stalls
o Comes up with excuses to not do certain tasks
o End of 9s… Canada has gone through NO change
- Still Repression
o E.g. Vancouver, Unemployed Demo, June 1938
ESTABLISHED CRAFT UNIONS
1920s:
- Faced a tough time
- Different climate, capitalism stage
1930s:
- Not a good time
- Some craft unions got through the depression
- Craft unions still exists
- But not the new centers of activity… New organizations are
▪ Communists
▪ CCF
ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES, OLD + NEW, PART 2
- Communists
o Orientation & Motivation
▪ Comintern
o 1920s: Boring from Within
o Early 9s: Workers Unity League
▪ On-to-Ottawa
- Cooperative Commonwealth Federation = CCF
o Regina Manifesto, 1933
o 1930s Fortunes
COMMUNISTS
- Are socialists
- Formally tied with the Soviet
- Structured to be connected
- Want to advocate world revolution… Want to make it happen!
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- Large amount of energy
Comitern:
- Communist International
o Branch of Soviet Union
o Communist parties around the world
- Did a lot of the leadership and direction from the mosque
1920s: Boring from Within:
- Tried to take over the trade labour
- 1923: got 30% of the votes
Early 9s: Workers Unity League:
- Changed their approach
- Workers Unity League
o Communist created their own organizations
o Approach → to maximize worker protest all around the world
o Maximum of avocation as possible
o Support strikes
• E.g. Stratford, 1933
- WUL, Contd…
o Mobilizing the unemployed
o Cities & relief camps
On-To-Ottawa
- Protests of young unemployed men leave to Vancouver, and march to Ottawa
▪ Pick up other unemployed men as they go
▪ Via trains
▪ Give us work and give us wages!!!!
• Tired of being poor and useless
o Large protest heading across the country
▪ Going to the government in Ottawa to demand worker wages
o July 1, 1935 ➔ Regina Riot
• Mass arrest and violence
COORPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION = CCF
- Political party
o New democratic party
- CCF founded at the Regina convention (1933)
o Document is Regina Manifesto
Regina Manifesto:
- CCF believed in creating major changes in society through VOTING
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Document Summary
Government policy: 1920s: orthodoxy, wlm king, 1930s: more orthodoxy, relief, r. b. Bennett: relief camps (cid:498))ron (eel of ruthlessness(cid:499, king again. Canadian gov(cid:495)n held to a very orthodox view. 1930s more orthodoxy: stalled his way out of everything. Even though there is economic problem, gov(cid:495)n still staying orthodox: will not spend $, won(cid:495)t interfere, etc. Government didn(cid:495)t want to spend the money to relief the poor (cid:494)not putting premium of unemployment(cid:495) 1932-1933 young unemployed men don(cid:495)t have jobs thus r. b. putting. Sticking to the orthodox view: designed that people cheating the system, spend $ monitoring the poor instead of giving the $ to the poor. Only for young, unemployed men them into camps. Men are given meaningless tasks to keep them busy. Overall goal keep them busy + keep them out of trouble (cid:498))ron (eel of ruthlessness(cid:499) R. b. obsessed with control and order: expecting citizens to support him too.
