The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-18
THE wlNNIPEG STRIKE Purpored Story Winnipeg Paper
1t to all parts of Canada-n other words, Soviet republic in Canada.
:. :. By Temple

it all Canada-in other words erect a Soviet republic in
 The Soviet Republic Movement
 . The movement was started way some seven months ago. convention of Radical Socialists representing themselves as representing Trades unions, staged in Calgary early March 1s1s It passed resolutions favoring general to release political prisoners defined actively working for the German government in this try" and for the establishment o a six-hour work ing day. It passed favoring the es- tabshment of Soviet government "Proletarian Dictatorship and other resolutions sending greet @ lngs to the spartacans in Germany and the Bolshe This convention decided to ask all unions Canada to sever interna ona1 affilia- tons, drop craft rganization join "One Big Union" which could take mass action"-as in Win n1peg today-in ain proetarian dictatorship and control of all resources industries and means of production" the present strike and it's leaders, newspaper pos- ing official organized labor in Win nipeg, immediately after the Calgary convention, launched ed an extensive propaganda supporting the w. and the Bolsheviki in America and Russia
 The chief organizers of the present .-ike R. J. Johns and R. B. Russell Metal Trades; Helen Armstrong one of the womens section or the strikers, and Andrew Scobe, of the the "One Big Union'' revolutionary convention There is no doubt that Winnipeg deliberately selected the first concrete overt act of the "One Big Union' campaign present general strike is it! The scheme worked with certain degree of skill these promoters of "One Big Union' idea able to set up a of Wolf! Wolk!" alias 'Principe! PrncipIe!" which successfully it's purpose and deceived organized labor striking in firm be- lief that it striking for collective bargaining n reality organized quite inadvertently but none the less effectively, played into the Bolshevist leaders-of Calgary 1ety.
 Tie-up Virtually Complete.
 So all efforts to avert it having failed the called general strike became effective at II A M. Thursday, May Is. first brought practically complete industrial commercial cial paralysis. It wrought terrible hardship immediately revealed the issue-not "collective bargaining" Ewing ly the question of whether free community o while a disaffected section throttled it.
 The street railway transportation city o a standstill.
 supply shut off except a of 30-pounds pressure sufficient one-story houses" according the Strike Commit tee' then created.
 The pasteurizing and delivery of milk tirely shut off and thousands of gallons soured railway stations
 Flour shut down and bakeries stop- ped.
 The delivery O. bread entirely
 closed, gle me who occupied and ma1y in restauI ants, deprived of the means of getting food
 The delivery stopped dead, the hottest May n years, with the mercury 95 grees Fahrenheit.
 Postal service to standstill1 and to plete Winnipeg's isolation, and commercial strike.
 On the second day of the strike stereotypers and pressmen of the big daily papers struck. there by shutting media of information able only he revolutionary 70. B. Labor to present version of the situation.
 Telephone operators and 1inemen in the era- ploy of government called shutting sick people, doctors and hos pitals preventing even women in childbirth from securing medical aid.
 Be Continued