The Maritime Rights Movement, 1919-1927Maritimers saw their political influence reduced, the underpinnings of their economy especially in the critical areas of tariffs, freight rates, and subsidies whittled away, and Canada defined in terms that seemed to exclude them. Adopting a strategy characteristic of the progressive movements of the period, they attempted through organization and agitation to restore their position. Farmers, fishermen, manufacturers, and organized labour articulated