Wartime demands brought prosperity to business through generous munitions contracts, but most workers felt excluded from the bonanza, and, by the spring of 1919, that feeling produced a six-week general strike in Winnipeg. Businessmen denounced the workers as Bolshevik conspirators, nervous politicians agreed, and key leaders were arrested for sedition. On Bloody Saturday, June 12, 1919, mounted police and militia crushed and dissolved a pro-strike demonstration on Winnipeg’s Main Street