Some of the attackers claimed affiliation to the All Truck Drivers Foundation (ATDF), an association of local truck drivers. Many foreign truck drivers have lost their jobs, despite having valid work permits, or have been unable to return to work due to injuries or damage to their trucks. Groups of people claiming to be South African truck drivers have thrown gasoline bombs at trucks and shot at, stoned, stabbed, and harassed foreign truck drivers to force them out of the trucking industry. More than 200 people – mostly foreign truck drivers – have been killed in South Africa since March 2018, based on research by the Road Freight Association, which represents road freight service providers. (Johannesburg) – The South African government should take urgent measures to protect foreign national truck drivers from violence, intimidation, and harassment in the country’s cycle of xenophobic violence. We Will Die For Our Country We Want 100% South African Drivers In The Trucking Industry,” outside of the Pietermaritzburg High Court on July 18, 2019. Michael Dupuis is an historian and author of The Winnipeg General Strike: Ordinary Men and Women Under Extraordinary Circumstances and The Reporter and the Winnipeg General Strike.Members of the All Truck Drivers Forum hold a banner that reads, “South Africa First Foreign Drivers Must Fall. Hopefully, before the authorities in Ottawa use military might, they will reflect on the past and find a peaceful solution to end the downtown occupation. Woodsworth became longtime MPs and in 1932 they helped establish the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) Party, which in 1961 became the New Democratic Party.Ī final long-term consequence was a legacy of bitterness, felt for years in Winnipeg between workers and the government. ![]() Arrested but acquitted Abraham Heaps and J.S. Jailed John Queen went on to serve several terms as Winnipeg’s mayor during the Depression. In the 1920 provincial election, 11 Labour MLAs, including three still in jail, won seats in the Manitoba Legislature. The longer-term result of Bloody Saturday was the emergence of labour as a political force. All but one were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of between six months and two years. Eight strike leaders were soon charged with seditious treason and brought to trial. Intervention by the authorities also broke the back of the strike. The immediate result of Bloody Saturday was the death of two bystanders, 90 men and four women arrested, and scores injured, many with gunshot wounds. Finally, Ketchen’s militia from the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers, 106th Light Infantry and 79th Cameron Highlanders patrolled Main Street in Canadian Army Service Corps trucks mounted with Lewis machine guns and soldiers with fixed bayonets. Club-wielding special police charged from both ends of what became known as Hell’s Alley. Once the shooting stopped, hundreds of “special police” wearing white armbands and carrying clubs cordoned off the downtown.Īt one point, scores of veterans, strikers and men and women bystanders were trapped in an alley near city hall. ![]() Soon the crowd fled Main Street to nearby side streets and alleys. One man was shot dead through the heart while standing in front of the Manitoba Hotel. Violence erupted when the officers began shooting. What happened next became known as Bloody Saturday.įirst, two troops of Mounties rode up Main Street from Portage Avenue to clear the streets. Strikers overturn a trolley car in Winnipeg’s General Strike of 1919. Perry to request Mounties and “special police” to assist in maintaining law and order, and then requested the use of militia from Ketchen.Īt 2:30 p.m., after word was passed along “to fall in,” hundreds of veterans gathered on either side of the streetcar tracks in front of city hall to begin the silent parade. Seeing the immense gathering, Mayor Charles Gray first contacted RCMP Commissioner A. ![]() ![]() A Canadian Press reporter estimated the crowd at 20,000. the next day, a large crowd of ex-servicemen, strikers and their supporters, as well as men, women and children bystanders had gathered on Main Street in the vicinity of city hall. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers.
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