'TO REACH THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS REVOLUTIONARYMOVEMENT': A. J. ANDREWS, THE CANADIAN STATEAND THE SUPPRESSION OF THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE

摘要

Denunciations of the leadership of the Winnipeg General Strike by business and political leaders suggest that the state had prepared from the beginning to put a violent end to the strike. However, only after it became clear that the strike would not collapse of its own weight did those in charge of the state s machinery of repression take the decision to suppress the strike through the arrest and detention of the strike leadership. While the defeat of the strike was obviously a product of a combinedeffort involving the Winnipeg business community and various agencies of the Canadian state, this article argues that A. J. Andrews, the agent of the Department of Justice in Winnipeg during the strike, was the principal architect of the suppression of the Winnipeg General Strike.