The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-18
Continued from Yesterday

The vote above referred was taken fashion The ballot form such and the method of its so loose that anybody earth could have walked into the Labor Temple and marked few hundred ballots and "got away with it." The Trades and Labor Council held special meet ing on Tuesday, May 13, and it announced that there was majority a general strike.
 AS a matter of fact only about 5000 votes were cast all told-including those for and against ana this minority vote was misrepresented as maj ority vote bring s5,oOO people strike.
 To revert for a moment to the origin of the this gave the organzers of the ganeraI strike neg on which to hang declaration that this to be strike in support of collective bargaining and living wage." We shall return to that point lat
 On wednesday. May II, Alderman Ernest Rob inson, secretary of the Trades and Labor Council, a statement gone lover whemingly" for the general strike, and that it would take place the following day, Thursday, May 15, at Il A. M. He also declared that not one union would return to work until all current de-
 Arbitration Refused by Mems Leaders. vote within seven days, Hon. T. c. Norris, premier of Manitoba, and Charles F. Gray, mayor of Win npeg, jointly made every effort to effect settle ment between the disputants in the Building Trades and Metal Trades respectively The dsputing parties brought together in the Builders Exchange offices held three distinct conferences in the
 A measure of success greeted these efforts. for the building trades workers and employers tenta- @ 3ad rLers agTeed that while it was accent they would only return work vided the metal trades workers first satisfied by recognition of the Metal Trades Council
 The that scale agreed upon between the builder and their men, destroys the claim that a wage" in issue when the general strike called
 Negotiations proceeded under the mediation of Premier Norris, between the metal trades employ and employees. The employers held out for col lective their employees. The representatives held out for collective bar gaining through the Metal Trades Council, by whom they dominated
 Premier Norris recognizing the point of dead lock, offered way out He offered to name bitration board of five members selected indepen- denty by hmself-not by employers employees consist of two employers, two trades workers, and independent chair 
 ironmasters agreed to this proposal stand by the results arbitration. The refused arbitrate.
 Determined Strike
 Efforts to avert the threatened strike contin- Mayor Gray, speaking from Premier Norris in the Royal Alexandra Hotel at II o'clock on the night of May 14-just 12 hours prior to the moment the te-up-asked James Winning presi- Trades and Labor Council and business Building Trades Council, if the strike would be cancelled should the ironwork a the mems demands MT. Winnings Not is too late to discuss that now.'
 And hours before single walked sympathy strike. This in itself that the radical leaders deter mined to bring about revolutionary tie-up regard for collective bargaining living wage is noth- ing but tricksters' propaganda.
 illustrates fact that there is something ia deeper than "colectve bargaining eral strike That something is revolutionary at tempt to set Soviet rule in Winnipeg and extend