The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-04
SETTLEMENT
OF STRIKE
lnslstent Humors That Agreement
viii be Reached at Winnipeg
Within Next Few
rar rr Days.
[By James T. Robert United Press
Staff Correspondent

[By James T. Kolbert United Press
Staff Correspondent
WINNIPEG, Man, June 4--Insistent
r,,mors were current here today that
a settlement OF the general strike
would be effected within few days.
Talk of amicable settlement per
sisted In spite of the martial law
alarms of the past forty-eight hours.
Mayor Charles f. Gray, Premier Nor
ris, r. B. Russell, leading figure
among the strikers. and the railroad
brotherhoods mediation committee ap-
pcared optimistic.
The mediation committee an
nounced satisfactory progress In the
decisions with representatives OF the
metal trades workers and the iron
masters. This dispute Is, however,
held incidental by the general strike
committee. Russell insisted the com
pllsory collective bargaining law and
the return Of all strikers to their jobs
without discrimination were the two
chief demands of the strikers.
Another victory was claimed by
labor in persuading the police COM
mission to postpone the anti-strike III
timatum issued to the police until Sat
urday night Gray was also said to
be smoothing the way toward settle
ment by his new attitude towards the
firemen, which permits all those who
walked out to return to their Jobs.
The same attitude will hold true in
the telephone workers case, 1t was In
t;mated. Postal authorities also stand
ready to take back all former en-
pJoyes upon due application, reports
said. With the three governmental
agencies willing to concede that mucn
to the strikers, a big step towards set
Element has been made.
The collective bargaining Issue pre-
sents a more difficult problem. Pre-
mier Norris insisted the government
still demand that the sympathetic
strike be called off before taking a
hand in the negotiations. Strikers
were today considering the proposal
Of Attorney General Thomas Johnson
for a referendum vote on the compul-
sorry bargaining proposal. He sug-
gested this method as the most salts
fsctory way of settling the issue.
Word was received here that the gen
elal strike called in Victoria. B. c.,
will be effective at ten a. m, today.
The daily crisis failed to develop
here today. Every day for the past
week crisis Of some sort developed
only to vanish into the air. Returned
soldiers skated close to the thin edge
OF martial law but avoided drastic at
tention by abandoning their daily
parade to the parliament building.
Committees now wait on the respec-
tive officials.
The almost hourly ultimatum Is the
popular subject for the crisis Ulti-
niatums have been and are being Is
sued by anybody and everybody on
the slightest pretext. ss44srt
The returned soldiers are now fling
ing ultimatums about Following the
returned soldiers demonstrations in
favor of speedy settlement of the
strike, the Great War Veterans asso-
citation repudiated the paraders.
An attempt will be made by the
G. w. v. A. to disown the paraders at
a mass meeting today. The paraders
are planning to expel the officers or
affect new organization. A split in
the ranks seems imminent.