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The result of the vote was an overwhelming majority in favour of a general strike , and on May 15 approximately thirty thousand workers left their jobs (including , significantly , about twelve thousand who were not members of unions . The strike , which lasted until June 26 , involved everyone in Winnipeg deeply , produced a spasm of fear throughout the "great middle class " of the city which led some of the people of Fort Rouge to sleep in churches for fear of being murdered...