Manitoba Coin Club Founded 1954 Incorporated 1969

Manitoba Coin Club
      Founded 1954
    Incorporated 1969

Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Show
        September 28 & 29, 2019
             Sunova Centre
        West St. Paul, Manitoba

  Commemorating the Centennial of the
         Winnipeg General Strike
                1919-2019
                     &
Celebrating our 65th anniversary1954-2019

Show Committee
Show Chair                   Howard R. Engel
Bourse                       Howard R. Engel
Exhibits                     Howard R. Engel
Publicity                    Barré Hall & Metro Hnytka
Secretary                    Audrey Weiss
Treasurer                    Kelvin Neufeld
Registration Table           Ray,Fern Massey, Liz Smadella
Venue                        Damara Geddes
Transportation               Ken Dobson
Program template & Website   Mike Zacharias
Contact: www.manitobacoinclub.org; mbcoin@shaw.ca

Schedule of Events
                   Saturday, September 28
10:00 AM – Ribbon & 65th anniversary cake cutting to open Show
                 and Bourse, Gym entrance.
                  This year’s ribbon cutters:

Her Worship, Ms. Cheryl Christian, Mayor of West St. Paul,
Dave Larson, President of the Lincoln (Nebraska) Coin Club,
Tom Froggatt, Royal Canadian Mint Chief Commercial Officer, &
Ken Dobson, retired Winnipeg fire fighter and great grandson of
one of the Manitoba Coin Club's chief founders, numismatist

              Harold Cleveland Taylor (1887-1965).

  12 noon, 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. Door Prizes (must be present to win)
               5:00 PM – Show closes for the day.
       5:30 PM – Show banquet in the Ambassador Room,
       Aalto’s Restaurant, Canad Inns Destination Centre
                           Garden City
                  2100 McPhillips St., Winnipeg

                   Sunday, September 29
      10:00 AM – Re-Opening of Show and Bourse, Gym.
 11 AM, 1 PM & 3 PM Door Prize Draws (must be present to win)
     4:00 PM – Show closes: Farewell & see you next year!

WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE 1919
                                Source: Wikipedia
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most famous and
influential strikes in Canadian history.

Labour union leaders argued that many Winnipeg companies had enjoyed
enormous profits on World War I contracts, but wages were not high enough,
working conditions were dismal and the people had no voice in the shops.

In March 1919, labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in
Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning
rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes. Their goal was to
mobilize workers (including those who already belonged to established
unions), including all different trades, skill levels, and ethnicities, giving them
class solidarity and aggressive leadership.

The immediate post-WWI war period in Canada was not a time of peace.
Soldiers returned home desiring jobs and a normal lifestyle again only to find
factories shutting down, soaring unemployment rates, increasing bankruptcies
and immigrants taking over the veterans' former jobs, which caused social
tensions. The cost of living was raised due to the inflation caused by World
War I, making it hard for families to live above poverty. Another component
which caused the strike was the working conditions of many factories that upset
the employees, thus pushing them to make the changes that would benefit them.
Railways in particular were put in the prairie climate, and many of the
employees were hurt around the mountains due to rock falls and the misuse of
explosives. Sleeping there, the workers stayed in tents with unsanitary and
overcrowded bunkhouses.

On May 13, City Council gathered again to review and look over the proposed
agreement issued by the strikers and their leaders. Once again, City Council
did not accept the proposal without their own amendments, specifically the
Fowler Amendment, which read that "all persons employed by the City should
express their willingness to execute an agreement, undertaking that they will
not either collectively or individually at any time go on strike but will resort to
arbitration as a means of settlement of all grievances and differences which
may not be capable of amicable settlement." This amendment incensed the
civic employees further, and by Friday, May 24, an estimated total of 6,800
strikers from thirteen trades had joined the strike.

In Winnipeg, workers within the building and metal industries attempted to

strengthen their bargaining ability by creating umbrella unions, the Building
Trade Council and Metal Trade Council respectively, to encompass all metal
and building unions. Although employers were willing to negotiate with each
union separately, they refused to bargain with the Building and Metal Trade
Councils, disapproving of the constituent unions that had joined the umbrella
organization, and citing employers' inability to meet proposed wage demands.
Restrictive labour policy in the 1900s meant that a union could be recognized
voluntarily by employers, or through strike action, but in no other way.
Workers from both industrial groupings therefore struck to gain union
recognition and to compel recognition of their collective bargaining rights.

The Building and Metal Trade Councils appealed to the Trades and Labour
Union, the central union body representing the interests of many of Winnipeg's
workers, for support in their endeavours. The Trades and Labour Union, in a
spirit of solidarity, voted in favour of a sympathetic strike in support of the
Building and Metal Trade Councils. Ernest Robinson, secretary of the
Winnipeg Trade and Labour Union, issued a statement that "every organization
but one has voted in favour of the general strike" and that "all public utilities
will be tied-up in order to enforce the principle of collective bargaining". By
suspending all public utilities, the strikers hoped to shut down the city,
effectively forcing the strikers' demands to be met. The complete suspension
of public utilities, however, would prove impossible. The Winnipeg police, for
example, had voted in favour of striking but remained on duty at the request of
the strike committee to prevent the city from being placed under martial law.

At 11:00 a.m. on Thursday May 15, 1919, virtually the entire working
population of Winnipeg had gone on strike. Somewhere around 30,000 workers
in the public and private sectors walked off their jobs. Even essential public
employees such as firefighters went on strike, but returned midway through the
strike with the approval of the Strike Committee.

Although relations with the police and City Council were tense, the strike was
non-violent in its beginning stages until the confrontation on Bloody Saturday.

General strikes broke out in other cities, in solidarity with the Winnipeg strikers
and in part as protest against local conditions. Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver,
Amherst, Nova Scotia and several other cities were locations of these sympathy
strikes.

When Winnipeg strike leaders were arrested in June, Toronto streetcar drivers
went on strike.

On June 10 the federal government ordered the arrest of eight strike leaders
(including J. S. Woodsworth and Abraham Albert Heaps). On June 21, about
30,000 strikers assembled for a demonstration at Market Square, where
Winnipeg Mayor Charles Frederick Gray read the Riot Act. Troubled by the
growing number of protestors and fearing violence, Mayor Gray called in the
Royal Northwest Mounted Police who rode in on horseback charging into the
crowd of strikers, beating them with clubs and firing weapons. This violent
action resulted in the death of two strikers Mike Sokowolski (shot in the heart)
and Mike Schezerbanowicz (shot in the legs, later dying of gangrene infection),
35 to 45 people were injured (police, telephone operators, firemen, utility
workers and labourers) and numerous arrests. This day, which came to be
known as "Bloody Saturday", ended with Winnipeg virtually under military
occupation. Interacting with other prisoners that consisted of editors and
strikers, police shut down the striker's paper called the Western Labour News
and arrested the editors for commentating on the event.

At 11:00 a.m. on June 25, 1919, the Central Strike Committee officially called
off the strike and the strikers returned to work.

                   List of Exhibits (all non-competitive)
Table #
30      Documenting the 65-year history of the Manitoba Coin Club (3 cases)
31      Commemorating the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike with numismatics, philately and
        books (2 cases)
35      Coins and More Coins You’ll See at the Manitoba Coin Show (1 case)
Between
10 & 37 Winnipeg Philatelic Society (WPS) sample of 2 stamp frame exhibits, one by John
        Salmi, a mixture of Various Topics of Early Finland including Early Finnish Postmarks,
        Advertising Labels, and Christmas Seals. The other frame is by Robert Zacharias and
        included selected pages from a WPS exhibit entitled Regional Issues of the Soviet
        Occupation Zone of Germany, 1945-46.

Acknowledgements

The Manitoba Coin Club gratefully acknowledges and appreciates
  the participation of the dealers, exhibitors, ribbon cutters, club
volunteers and sponsors, especially Gatewest Coin. Thanks to the
Winnipeg Philatelic Society for their tablecloths, road signs, kid
stamps & stamp exhibit. We also wish to thank Damara Geddes,
 Recreation Director of the Municipality of West St. Paul and her
       team here at the Sunova Centre, for so professionally
         accommodating our show for the 4th year in a row.

               Dealers (with table numbers)

Andy Zook & Shirley Froese, Selkirk, MB, 10-11 (coins, stamps)
  Audrey Weiss, Henry Smadella, Wpg., Lorette, MB 34(coins)
      Big Al’s Stamp Emporium (Al Wingate), Wpg. 14-15
               Brian Gibson, Wpg. 24-25 (coins)
               Kirkby-Marlton Coins, Wpg. 26-28
 J. Garvey & Sons (Les & Trixie) Edmonton 32-33, 38 (stamps)
           Larry Dalman, Stonewall, MB 6-7 (coins)
PC Coins & Collectibles (Patrick Chiasson & Chantal Bouillon)
                  Steinbach, MB 22-23 (coins)
         Provincial Stamp & Coin (Al Knapp) Wpg. 4-5
   R.D. Miner Philatelics (Dwayne Miner), Calgary, AB 16-17
      Richard Stockley Books (Howard R. Engel), Wpg. 29
           Roman Pniowsky, Wpg. 1 (stamps, coins)
            Stampman9 (Roger Fontaine), Wpg. 2-3
      Stephen Trask, Battleford, SK 12-13 (coins, stamps)
T and J Coins (Trevor Freysteinson), Saskatoon, SK, 8-9, 36-37
         TWS Stamphouse (Terry Shestko) Wpg. 20-21

“Coins” includes all related numismatic material, including paper
 money, medals, merchant tokens and scrip (e.g. Canadian Tire
      money), trade dollars, commemorative medals, etc.

In Memoram: Club members & friends who have passed since
                    our last show

William Ross (Curly) McLelland (1922-2019) was a longtime
member of the Manitoba Coin Club who joined almost from the
very beginning in the mid-1950s when meetings were held in the
Winnipeg Free Press building on Carlton Street. He kept in touch
with the Club until his 90s. Along with our Acting President, Bill
      Stefiuk, he was an active member of the Oddfellows.

John Richards (1942-2019) was a longtime stamp and coin dealer
 who founded North Main Stamp and Coin in the early 1970s. He
   and his wife Linda were a fixture at our shows and when they
 finally closed the last incarnation of their storefront on McGregor
 St. in 2011, their customers faithfully followed them to our show,
         one of only four they regularly attended each year.

Beverly Maxine Banman (née Whitehead) (1938-2019) was the
    beloved wife of our second VP, Peter Banman, mother,
grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She enjoyed attending the
      Club’s annual December dinner with her husband.

John Richards presiding at his table at our Fall 2018 Show. He and Linda are
      missed. Rest in peace, John and thanks for all the good stories!

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 Big Al’s Stamp Emporium (Al Wingate)
Bison Software (Robert/Michael Zacharias)
        Gatewest Coin (Ian Laing)
PC Coins & Collectibles (Patrick Chiasson)
Richard Stockley Books (Howard R. Engel)
      Stampman9 (Roger Fontaine)

                NOTES

The Manitoba Coin Club Incorporated
       The Manitoba Coin Club Incorporated is one of Western
Canada’s oldest coin clubs, founded in the fall of 1954 by Harold
Cleveland Taylor (1887-1965), who served as its first vice-
president and later as president, and others. The Club celebrates its
65th anniversary at this year’s annual fall show. The Club became a
charter member of the Canadian Numismatic Association in 1955
and hosted the Canadian Numismatic Association Conventions in
1966 and 1982 and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Convention in
2013 in Winnipeg. The Club incorporated in the province of
Manitoba in 1969.

       The club meets once a month except for the months of July
and August when it is on summer hiatus and December, when we
hold a club dinner instead. We meet in the Golden Rule Seniors
Room at the Ft. Rouge Leisure Centre which is located at 625
Osborne Street, at the corner of Kylemore Ave. The meetings are
on the fourth Wednesday of the month. The meetings themselves
begin at 7 pm sharp and generally run between one and two hours.
They comprise of a short business meeting, followed by an
educational presentation, social time with refreshments and end
with an auction. Members love to bring items to buy, sell and
especially trade with each other and treasures that hold fascinating
stories that they show and tell.

       According to the Manitoba Coin Club Constitution most
recently revised in 2016 after 40 years since the previous version
from 1976, the objectives of the Club are to:
   • Promote the art and science of numismatics;
   • Aid its members in the study, acquisition and exhibition of
       numismatic materials;
   • Cooperate with all numismatic organizations and individuals
       in the pursuit of the art and science of numismatics.

Manitoba Coin Club Membership Application Form
   Meetings every 4th Wednesday of the month except July,
                     August & December
    Golden Rule Seniors Room, Ft. Rouge Leisure Centre
     625 Osborne Street @ Kylemore Ave. 7 pm sharp

Membership benefits include access to knowledgeable collectors
and library, subscription to the newsletter, Bison Tales, a wealth of
information, excellent presentations, and the ability to take part in
monthly auctions and the annual shows. If you are interested in
joining our club, or just seeing what we are all about, please ask one
of our members at the show or visit www.manitobacoinclub.org for
more information.

                      Everyone Welcome!

Individual Membership, $15/Year, Family (more the one @ same
     address), $20/year & Junior (age 16 and under), $5/year

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                       Manitoba Coin Club
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