Bibliographic record
Abstract
A half-century after his 1920 trial and conviction for seditious conspiracy, William Arthur Pritchard was invited by the "faculty and student body" of the University of Winnipeg to return to the city to tell his story of the dramatic legal aftermath of the Winnipeg General Strike.The talk never took place, however, because "the keeper of the money bags" at the university "had cut out the 'frills'" and was no longer willing to bring the 83-year-old socialist from California, where he had lived since 1938. 1 Pritchard had never lived in Winnipeg.Indeed, he was barely in the city during the 1919 general strike.He was, at that time, a leading member of the Socialist Party of Canada (spc), living in Vancouver, British Columbia.Of Welsh background and born and raised in a working-class family in Lancashire, the home of the Industrial Revolution, Pritchard had arrived in Canada in 1911 and quickly joined the spc.By 1914, he was the editor of the party newspaper, The Clarion.By the end of World War I, he was an active member of the longshoremen's union and was a delegate to the famous Western Labour Conference in Calgary in March 1919 that articulated solidarity with the Russian and German revolutions, encouraged the use of the general strike as a tactic, and proposed building the One Big Union (OBU). 2 It was as a leading socialist and advocate of the OBU that Pritchard travelled to Winnipeg toward the end of the strike (his first speech was at Victoria Park on 12 June) to bring a message of support and encouragement.Having left Winnipeg, he avoided the early morning sweep of "strike leaders" five days later, only to be arrested in Calgary en route home to Vancouver and returned to Winnipeg.As
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.021 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.015 | 0.034 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".