By Aloysius Balawyder
This research, in line with files only in the near past made to be had, examines Canada’s family members with the Soviet Union among the 1st and moment international wars. It indicates how Canada’s coverage in the direction of Russia used to be motivated by means of the commercial and overseas regulations of significant Britain, via the innovative guidelines of the Comintern, via financial pressures inside Canada and the Soviet Union, and via pressures from political and ethnic teams inside of Canada. Professor Balawyder explores the connection among the Communist celebration of Canada and the Russian Comintern, and reports the consequences of the actions of Canadian Communists on Canada’s political and advertisement dealings with Russia.
these attracted to Canada’s overseas family and within the historical past of left-wing political teams in Canada will locate this ebook an enormous contribution to a box of analysis lengthy neglected.
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1 Although it never attracted more than five per cent of all trade union members in the United States, the iww did make itself felt effectively during its life span from 1905 to 1924. 8 1 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York, 1957), vol. vm, 13-18. 2 Patrick Renshaw, The Wobblies (New York, 1967), p. 23. 3 Ibid. ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE A G R E E M E N T 23 The conviction and imprisonment of the leading members of the iww in the United States forced some of the remaining leaders to migrate to Canada, principally to British Columbia and Ontario.
026797, ibid. ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE A G R E E M E N T 39 of Krassin's coming on a business trip to Canada. 67 Meighen also corresponded with Foster, minister of trade and commerce. '68 He added, however, that no such appointment could be justified before Canada officially agreed to the terms of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement, for otherwise it would appear that Ottawa was seeking favours from Moscow. Although Meighen did not see any objections to such an adherence, he felt that the decision rested with the cabinet.
27 White to Borden, i April 1919, Borden Papers. 28 Borden to White, 18 April 1919, ibid. 29 White to Borden, 22 April 1919, ibid. 30 Borden to White, 29 April 1919, ibid. 31 White to Borden, 16 May 1919, ibid. ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE A G R E E M E N T 29 The stoppage of work which developed into a general strike paralyzed the city of Winnipeg and implied that a soviet was established there. The Canadian newspapers were largely responsible for giving the general public the impression that a Bolshevik regime had been initiated in the prairie capital.