Unions Act, passed for the relief of the striking Toronto printers in 1872, that British workers in Canada should have the privileges they enjoyed at home. But as the manufacturers grew in consciousness of organized strength their resistance increased, and while the unions have surpassed their United States colleagues in remedial legislation, they have fallen back towards them in legal status. The employers might yield protective legislation but, as in Great Britain and the United States, they were determined to oppose any legal recognition of the coercive methods of the unions to the last. Such demands seemed especially preposterous to employers in the pioneer days of Canadian industry. This seemingly perverse denial of a legal status accorded in industrially advanced Great Britain aroused a sense of injustice among trade unionists. It may or may not be significant that the general strike of 1919, the greatest labor upheaval in Canadian history, centered in Winnipeg in a pioneer portion of a pioneer industrialism, where the injunction and the damage suit had been much used. Indeed, the metal tradesmen, with whom the dispute originated, lost a strike shortly before through the issuance of an injunction and an action for damages, and after this defeat their request, endorsed by the Winnipeg Trades Council and the president of the Trades and Labor Congress, for the restoration of picketing to its legal status of 1876 and other privileges of the British Trade Disputes Act was denied. The desired British legal status is probably some distance in the future for Canadian unionists. That "kind of benefit of clergy" granted by the Industrial Disputes Act came through much educational effort and the election of an unprecedented number of labor candidates in the general election of 1906. 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