El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-13


rri7s Tanadian of French blood VINO
dreams OF eventual separation from
the empire is also as Keen Lor IT,
Ireland as de Valera nlmselLs AOp---7
for a convenient precedent - ~
Rut outside Of Quebec and the IN
tarfo Orangemen most Canaola-nS ~
- fs,or giving ireland anything
more than dominion ZONE RUE 49,.
Industrial trouble in the dolllaIlloh
thar eliminated in the Winnipeg gen
ersf strike caused much talk on so
riets and revolution. w men the 49,. -
OF the avoWed BOlsheFlks VINO ~
some days controlled the Ereat gran
rffv OF the prairies were broken, LAe
outside world concluded that the tr9u-
he was over and thought OF other
things.
II is not over. CANADA faces a very
serious situation, although more Sc
rious outbreaks are not expected IN
iii faU or winter Whatever LABOR
troubles America may nave t-tlls---@
has too and in more NlrulenL FORM
A. the extremists in Canada and
the United States are Workln@
together. and regard the dominion
as n more likely field In Wnieh
10 r-nther the first harvest Of Pre-
Ief1rinn rule. Americans who
witch the struggles coming norm
OF the border will VFitnes that the
reds intend tn meet out IN the
United States later on
The zone big union" movement IN
Canada is complex in origin and lof-
nation. but its aims are crystal Sie-i
and can be put in a few words, Con
eervatfve organized labor IN Cana4as
an those bodies affiliated with the
American Federation OF LABOR paeHSu
s4rorgIv- nv employers and by the do
minion and provincial goferllIll eil :,
are fighting tooth and nali 70 pre- en-
those aims from being carried out
zone big union" means feoerd-
ton Of all manual laborers making UP
what Europe calls the -,proletarla.l
for the purpose OF enforcing soclAl
and political demands unon the state
No longer is parliament 20 RUE tne
country Carrying out It's edictS oE
the threat Of a general strike Whlch
would paralyZe life the eAecutAFe
COMMITTEES of the zone big union. or
the soviet OF workers delegates IN
gtr-5rtinr the committee. are TO lay
down the law. and legislators are TO
noIsbevisfS Finance Movement
This was explained 10 me by a mem
Der Of the dominion cabinet In ms
office at the temporary capitol N
Ottawa he told me OF the cabinets
struggle against the dictatorship OF
the extremists, AID frankly admitted
f1at without the support Of the loyal
laboring organizations the govern
ment would be helpless BolsneVlsls
in Europe and the United. states, the
cabinet officer said, are financing
the movement in Canada
1--WE find that Detroit, boston
and New York give birth to most
of this stuff he said Were the
authors Canadians. they cOuid be
arrested under our seditiOn acts
As they are real pseudO-Ameri-
cans operating on your soil We
can do nothing excepting ste1e the
propaganda as IL comes IN and
with frontier Ike OURS that Is
almost fmpossfble.s
IT surprised me 10 learn that the
see
not foreigners Of the type VINO nave
caused most trouble IN the united
states. Nor are the Canadian born
All Of the ring leaders in Winnipeg
Scotchmen. and hail from the turbu-
lent regions Of the coal fields and the
shipbuilding yards Of the Clyde
Depends on Returned Men.
Upon the attitude Of the 100000 re-
turned soldiers viii depend the rate
Of the struggle between the defenders
Of the established order Of society
and those who would OTerturn it. EN-
tremists especially in British Column
hia- are making desperate efforts 70
get control Of the associations formed
by veterans. and in some cases they
have been successful
The main concrete grievance OF the
returned man is that some foreigner
or some man who came across the
border during the last four years has
landed his job This is true in but
a minority Of cases and 10 show their
auureciariou Of his services Canada
has given her soldier hero six months
pay. upon discharge a course not
followed in the United States. wages
are high. and unemployment is not
now serious. but. such is human ma
ture, many soldiers prefer to spend
their pay first and look for job
when their money is gone
Crisis Expected in Fall
This viii mean that IN the autumn,
when cold weather begins and there
are less Jobs. the demand of army
men for work viii be at its height
Agitators are building hopes upon the
frame Of mind these men will be in
BY fall It is admitted on all sides
that the somewhat critical and dis
satisfied attitude adopted By many
veterans is not due 10 specific griey-
ances, but to the habits of mind
formed BY three or four years in the
army That this psychological factor
IS not acute in the United States is
perhaps because our average dough-
boy has had oue-quarter active serv-
ice Of the Canadian Tommy.
Most Canadian soldiers went into
service as boys or young men holding
81 or $50 jobs; they grew to manhood
in the trenches, they came back de-
handing that their country do better
for them than it did before their
fiery ordeal And there are not enough
good Jobs to go around, either for Of
Ulcers or men
One safe prediction IN existing
conditions Is that the next domfn-
ion parliament, TO be elected prob
ably within year. will contain
strong radical minority. This Is
desired by many conservative
politicians, safety first valve.
The present coalition government.
made up OF Conservatives and n
Few Liberals. has only one labor
member, and there is no labor
party in either senate or house.
The next election viii not be fought
as in the past between the old Liberal
and Conservative party machines.
Good judges told me that organiza-
ton officer in Montreal, with its al
most exclusively Catholic population.
All these stories were told me IN Que
bee; exactly similar incidents are said
to have happened in nationalist Ire
land The result in both cases was
the same early support Of the war
turned into sullen discomfort
The political result Of the in feel
Ing caused by these charges. and the
rountercharges against Quebec Of
towardice. has been bad for the Lib
eral party There has been a split
Of the late sir Wilfred Laurier. and
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