A brief article from the feminist magazine Fireweed about women in the 1919 general strike in Winnipeg.
"In the coming days women would take their place side by side with men, not as dependents or inferiors but as equals. Thus there would be better relationships based on fundamental love and affinity. This strike was part of the great movement for the emancipation of women.
"The strike got them the right to organise, it got them the right to speak up for themselves, and they began to have some legislation such as control of the wages and led on to a minimum wage and led onto women getting into organisations too and the right to be recognised and the right to organise, that was the big thing.
"That was quite a strike alright...but we all got over it anyway."
- Beatrice Brigden.
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