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and conspiracy at 2am during an overnight raid on the 17th of June. Other leaders were arrested alongside
William, with most of the key figures of the strike committee imprisoned. The day after William's arrest, his devastated wife Louisa addressed crowds of striking workers at the Labour Temple.
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and disgruntled church members. This church was created to preach information relevant to the working class. The Labour church held meetings on Sunday evenings and rapidly grew in popularity, attracting over 4,000 mostly working class parishioners in just six months. In
January 1919, the Church
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On July 7, 1908, William Ivens and Louisa Davis wed. On 27 January 1910, their first son Milton
Herbert Ivens was born. A daughter Eva Maude Ivens was born on 4 July 1913 at Pipestone, Manitoba and died a few months later on 18 September 1913. Another son John Boyden Ivens was born in 1915 at
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Legislature taking part in debates. In 1926 he argued against capital punishment and in 1928 he supported a bill to introduce old age pensions.
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American capitalism. In 1917 and 1918, Ivens was opposed by several members of his congregation by defending conscientious objectors to
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and criticizing the management of the war. He expressed these opinions as a private citizen in newspaper articles, rather than from his pulpit; nevertheless, many church members opposed him as insufficiently patriotic in wartime.
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movement as ‘the red five’ or ‘anarchists.’ William himself wrote that the
Winnipeg Citizen published ‘vile and pernicious propaganda’ and joked that they thought he was a Russian spy called ‘Ivens the Terrible.’
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was called, Ivens continued as editor of the Western Labour News and published a Daily Strike Bulletin to provide information to striking workers. He wrote numerous articles in support of the strikers.
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