The Telegram referred to the strike as a deliberate, criminal and fantastic attempt to make a revolution. The Telegram combined its strike news with sensationalist reports on the Russian Revolution to help create a Red Scare in Winnipeg. The Telegram and other commercial newspapers declared the strike a revolution led by foreign “alien” agitators. In fact, the most prominent strike leaders were well-known trade unionists of British origin.

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