History 2125F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Joseph Flavelle, Canadian Tire, Stelco
21 May 2016
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Great war and the twenties: roller coaster rides for business and labour. The power of bus/econ: cost of living controller, war trade bond, wartime grain board, finance act as central bank, purchase of cnor and gtpnt, purchasing war material. Expansion of the same industrial disputes investigation act (idia) 1907: in terms of strike, someone would be sent in to determine who was right, company or employees. 5 top female occupations: domestic servant, seamstresses, school teachers, of ce clerk, wife on farm/ stock raiser. Post war slump: the economy cools off very rapidly, 1921, less manufacturing then before the war. Radicals: winnipeg general strike committee, ideas was to have all workers strike together, instead of just steel workers or factory workers, general strike committee authorizes certain workers to keep going, cutting off the elite. By mid 1920"s its getting close to affordable for the common man: canada builds a lot of cars, second most in the world.
