Evening journal., 1919-06-26

residents TO break The tle-up. Mr..
Beacon and Mr.. Graham met while on
a European trip and became close
| friends Mr.. Graham attributes the
! Winnipeg trouble to Bolsheyism more
/ than 10 any other cause, and eX-
/ presses a belief that the United states
| soon viii have 10 meet such a menace
and crush it His letter, telling OF the
scope Of the Winnipeg trouble better
| than newspaper stories OF IL that have
appeared says In part:
Winnipeg. June i3, 1919.
Dear Professor Beacon: received
yesterday the sheet from The Evening
Journal which you sent me giving an
account Of the Beacon banquet. The
envelope bears the Wilmington post
mark Of 18TH of May, SO H. was just
month in reach ng me- Tho cause Of
delay was. no doubt. the strike that Is
on I'm Winnipeg just now. We look ON
II now not a strike in The ordinary
sense. but a tlght with Boshevism, an
attempt at revolution. on the 18th OF
May, they called out an city civil ser
vice clerks, lremcn. scavengers, water
works men, men of park board. street
car men and, IN fact, men Of an trades
and telephone girls and lelegaphers |
and even men IN cemeteries 50 that we
had for a few days complete Tie up, |
and we wcro cut or from the outside |
world We had ma newspaper and no |
| mail for two weeks. Elevators were |
stopped and al first delivery Of grocer
les. milk and all kinds of goods was I
stopped our mall was piled up In the |
| postoillce or IN cars in the railway |
yards. This accounts for the delay In |
deliyerlng your envelope.
II read with interest Of your banquet
AZ This time. of course the remarks
made by the Rev Charles A. Eaton were
especially interesting. lie predicts
1ght with Bolshevlsm within five years
do not believe you VIII wait five |
years. ! would say within five months /
or 1--WE weeks In fact I believe The
nght Is on now. Seeing that we can
not bury the dead and for a time could
not get milk for babies or hospitals. or
water above the ground floor, or our
clothing from a laundry. NC think. we
arc really I'm The fight here. They
marched 10 our Parliament Building and
demanded that tho provisional loglsla-
ture resign. We read of bomb throw
Ing In your cities. and we can hardly Z
refrain from a suspicion that this thing !
is an in the United States as well as In
Canada.
we were taken by surprise a. FIRST
and were put 10 much inconvenience.
They were organized even 20 control Of
our city police. They left The police
on duty as n suited their purpose and
they commenced allowing certain things
Ia.. tIas ,,npv,f-of.r, ~ ihn gfriln rnu1-
milteo.' Theatres could open II they
put mp a card. open by permission NJ
the strike committee Bread carts
could deliver under Tho Same condi-
tlons. soon citizens got aroused and
commenced 10 organize and In pure
Western dialect said. TO holl with the !
strike committee owing 30 The war 4
our militia regiments were disorgan-
lied, officers and men had enlisted or
were drafted The troops returning >
were demObilizcd as they arrived and ,
our police were union men and on duty F.,
by permission Of The strike commit ,
tee We had 90 have some military \
force. so enlistment was commenced
and training begun First committee
NJ 1000 citizens was formed and pres
sure brought to bear on our City Coun- -
ell. There are a in the council. five "
OF whom are Bolshcvists, and the a
mayor is very doubtful quantity =
However. we have organized several -
militia regiments We have manned the =
FIRE brigade with volunteers and the 4.
post office. We have dismissed the po- Il
lice including the chief We are or :,
ranizlng "a new force and The new force
must sign an agreement not to go out
on sympathetic strike and to obey no
but the constituted author
ity.
"Wc arc delivering milk. bread and
leo from the schools. We have 5000
spcclal constahlcs and mon who wish
10 return 90 work arc protected. We
deliver mail. The strikers at first re-
fused 20 accept mail from MS 'scabs |
so we return their mail 20 tho sender
There were two days OF rioting after
Inc police were dismissed, but no one
was killed. A few got hurt. The strik-
,rs have all the foreign clement with /
hem and / think Austrians are about
he worst Of all The north part of
,Vlnnipeg contains many foreigners
rhc centre is mixed and the south has
M foreigners In 10. Tho militia regi-
nents have been recruited from the
ouih and we have taken them up 10 60
ears OF age and even some over 60 are
m certain duty. such as patrolling fire .,
Harm boxes. The strikers quit work ~
With tho idea we could not do without a.
hem. The citizens. as IL We're. took n.
VI their coats and said we Will show nj
,ou VIC can get along without YOU bet nj
Ter than YOU can without us and !
hlnk NC are going to succeed III
~ enlisted at the beginning and am I'm
serving on The motor transports with fr
my car. We have 100 cars i'm our tb
brigade and We are sworn i'm under n,
military discipline We do all sorts Of no
transfer work and pick mp tired people og
on the street and help them out We be
go for and take home volunteer tclc- es
phone workers. volunteer frcmcn and TO
Others We have not yet had the riot M
act read nor martial law, but as all our IN
volunteers have recently been called
into barracks. I expect we viii ignore To-
our MAYOR II he does not read the 81
riot act and have il read by magis- ii
iratcs or by a Judge. and there viii, b
no doubt. be some arrests, and we may or
have 90 do some shooting. but we are n
now prepared and feel safe. We have p
perbaps go northwest mou-ted police. "a
These fellows have reputation Of do y
ing things in a business way. We have o.
penty Of guns and have them in The %
hands Of men TO be relied upon, and ! o
feel sure they will not fire too high