The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-19
THE WINNIpEG STRIKE Purpored Story By Winnipeg Paper

ities for such event revolution Those author gagged in the highly congenia1 task of demobiIizng unit after unit of soldiers home from nitted-By Authority the Strike Committee" the civic civic aGthorities formally requested General Ket chen, G. O. C. of Military District No. 10, prepare for any emergencies The city police boasted it's alliance to the Strike Committee had tLAei a strike Vote-only to be ordered to stay the job so as to prevent martial law.
 At the call thousands of citizens being aroused to great indignation by the usurpaton of governing authority by the Strike Committee joined the Com volunteer citizen enrolled for strike period by General Ketchen, and just mil fail, civil authority exerted itself
 What the Citizens Accomplished.
 The offensive poster. Permitted by Authority of the Strike Committee" was ordered to be remov- ed What is more it Citizen volunteers from ten minutes strike The Citi- zens Committee manned the city's waterworks with a skilled staff which displaced nal Two days afterwards innn @ rl,seu ipd i4 nor h
 decidely more, incpient confla grafton which, famed by stiff wind, spread for two blocks. Had it been the water pressure furnished by a Citizens Committee volunteer%ataff and used by Citizens Committee Volunteer brigade, a large section of Winnipeg undoubtedly have been destroyed.
 Government Revolution.
 Hon. G. D. Robertson, Dominion Minister of Labor, and Hon. Arthur Meighen, Minister the Interior Winnipeg shortly afterwards and investigated After investigating they stigatzed the situation as an attempt to overturn proper men authority. to acquire control by radicals extend that control all Canada They urged the citizens to stand firm and resist attempt
 
 Monday May 1s Some returned and others did not; those who did dismissed from their posts and the vacancies readily filled provin- ciaI government ordered telephone employees by the hour, but with little effect, switchboards manned by volunteers rendering efficient service. The city Winnipegs employees, all of whom had negotiated dulles by May l, after seven weeks of collective gaining and who went strike, dismissed by the city council, except such re-apply their positions and sign a pledge against sympathe- tic strikes in the future Seventy firemen to their dutes together with practically all clerical staffs.
 All services, utilities telephones, water, light, power and gas. postoffce and wholesale and retail deliveries practically normal except that June 4, the Strike Committee, realizing cause defeated, played its gretatest card ordering the bakery creamery deliverynen strike again, in effort to the into sudden submission. Within few schools and the bakeries and creameries prom ised adequate police protection. For days that date, the strikers. headed by conscrpts and aliens ana some other returned soldiers, had parading the and visiting buildings and making wildly impossible de- immediate ending strike by legislation. R. E. leader of these paraders, himself a Bolshevist and in favor of / fishing Soviet government in Wnnipeg-this, a conversation with Premier Norris and in blood.
 Loyalist Soldiers Organized
 This aroused the better element of real re- turned soldiers that they organized counter-demon constituted authority and demanding the expulsion enemy jailng agi- tators. Eleven thousand of these formed the Returned Soldiers Loyalist Association of Winni- peg. 5, the call of the authori- ties, supplied 2,000 to act special consta- bles during the strike for the preservation of law efficiently policing city the citizens having lost confidence regular force the members of which obviously were partial to the Strike Commit
 cTo B contnued.,