The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-19
(Continued from Yesterday Challenge to All Governments

The effects complete staggering: The Reorganization of community activity was com holding of his Majesty's mails flat ci1al- lenge to the Dominion government The shutting off of telephone service a challenge the vncial government. rationing of the walk out of firemen and the consequent shutting off O fire protection, the strike committees assumption of control of the city police force and the impair ment civic services challenge to the Civic Government
 The whole thing was an unmistakabe challenge every constitutional authority in Canada and. addition. the curtailments and restrictions imposed the traditional liberty of the subject under the British flag, constituted emphatic challenge
 Babies "On the Verge of Death"
 Within days hundreds of babies were "on the verge of death for want of milk (The quota tion is from the report of the Food Committee of the Strike Committee) Sick persons were unable to get medical attention owing to the absence Of tele- phone service The sick in hospiatls and elsewhere were tortured and their suffering enhanced by the cutting off the delivery of ice. People hun the streets because meals were unpurchasable at restaurants and in an area stricken with scarlet fever epidemic water could not even be turned on when required
 The condition required remedy and it made its corrective by bringing about the spontane- any participation the disputes between employers and organized labor, were made the chief
 Many private citizens were in favor of collec- tive bargaining-and still are-and were heartily in getting all wages it could; they were apathetic to the original issues but when pathy being, for anything but the storaon of their civil and constitutional rights
 Committee of One Thousand
 A year ago a smaller strike took place, with civic employees out sympathy with other. A Citizens Committee of One Hundred formed at and able to bring about settlement along lines suggested by themselves That commit- entirely died, and this it formed a raI1ying point, a nucleus for the organization of a force-the mddle-class citizens who were the innocent victims of revolution The "Committee of One Hundred" within 24 hours of the general strikes commencement, became the Committee of one Thousand and that is about ten thou sand short at this time.
 The first effort of the Committee, in conjunc with the civic authorities, ensure food the population at large. Efforts of the and 1o7i1l< dann with delivery limited those who could produce union card rigidy baked, until the Strike Committee was forced to agree to send back creamery and bakery workers to handle ana denver milk and bread, all a in normal times
 'By Authority of the Strike Comnittee'
 The strike committee took advantage of situation Haunt what they termed ooast completeness labor's contro.' for when first bread and meat wagon appeared the streets they bore the printed posters word '.Permitted-By Authority of the Strike Com mittee."
 Then it boasted in the Labor News that the police work: By Authority of the Strike, Committee; that the theatres were permit ted" to keep the crowds off the streets By Authority of the Strike Committee; that tain restaurants were permitted to open By Authority of the Strike Committed"
 The whose wife dying had to walk miles to H. Veitch of the flood committees' of strike organization to get permit to get milk Crescent Creamery. His wife has since died. Oil companies instructed to sell oil and gasoline only on a permit the Strike Com mittee. Gasoline filling stations for automobiles were close be smashed Tacks, nails and glass scattered about the streets to destroy automobile transportation To send a tele- of the city had to have It censored by Strike Committee.
 hey-day of the Soviet system Win min governed Strike Committee. The Soytetists were only get thus far be- of the unpreparedness of the military author