Arizona republican., 1919-05-30
SYMPATHY STRIKE E|S CRUMbLINC AS MEN
 SEEK OLD POSITIONS

and Dominion Has Effect
 -Firemen and Policemen
 Must Swear Allegiance to
 City WINNIPEG, May Winnipegs strike may be settled by Monday, it was believed here today, when the metal trades employers accepted an of fer of the railroad trainmen's unions to act as mediators on the collective bar gaining issues. The dispute between metal workers and employers precipi- tated the general strike here May 15.
 Railway mail clerks of the Winnipeg division who went out on sympathetic strike Tuesday night, are returning to work Late this afternoon, the strik- CTS appeared before Senator Gideon Robertson, federal minister of labor, and asked permission to resume their work They were allowed to do so, having made application before the 24-hour ultimatum of the government had expired.
 Municipal machinery to remove city departments from the grip of the sym pathetic strike, which is beginning it's third week, worked at high speed to- day.
 Announcements were made at the city hall that a number of regular firemen who joined the general strike May 15, had applied for reinstatement, and that the city police force would be removed from the control of the cen tral strike committee tomorrow. Must Sign New Oath
 The policemen'S union voted to strike. but Ii was announced at the outset of the general strike by union leaders, that the patrolmen were or dered by them to remain on duty for the present.
 The action of the police commission today was considered the most aggres- sive thus far taken by the city. Each member of the force, desiring to be 1 permanently retained, must sign in triplicate new oath that he will not join any sympathetic strike movement in the future and that he will give en- tire allegiance to the city of Winnipeg. The police commissions attitude was referred to the city officials as direct challenge to the labor leaders for a showdown
 Clerks in city departments were kept l busy today enrolling applicants for po- sitions, vacated by employees on strike. i A number of applicants are returned | soldiers
 i Members of the citizens committed 1 completed arrangements for city wide clean up campaign tomorrow. Business men have promised to work with other citizen volunteers in clean i ing all railroads and streets and haul 1 ing garbage to the dumps. Other mem bers of the committee have promised i to assist in operating street cars if ] service IS attempted tomorrow.
 Street Cars Saturday We expect to have vne cars in oper alton by Saturday. if we do not put through our complete program tomor row. said Mayor Charles F. Gray. A dispatch from Ottawa late today announced the new civil service bill will include substantial increases for some branches and that no employe Will receive decrease in pay. Places of number of postoffice clerks who have quit work have been filled.
 More than TO permanent emplyes were at work in the postoffice today, said Postmaster Mcintyre.
 Only few meagre dispatches re. garding strike conditions in AIberts and the Saskatchewan tricked into Winnipeg today They indicated tha- the Edmonton waIkout was of broader scope than the strike at Calgary bu that neither demonstration included labor unions.
 Officials of the three leading Win nipeg iron works, in letter to Pre- mier Norris and Mayor Gray, mad public late today, agreed to discuss labor problems with their own em ployes and with representatives of tn Canadian railroad brotherhoods, act ing as mediators
 Many Return to Work
 No reply has been made public Thus far, leaders of the central strik, committee have refused to conside any conciliation conference between the iron warks' executives and thei employees. which did tot include repre- sentative of the Winnipeg Meta Trades council. Strike of the meta workers was followed by the genera sympathetic strike.
 City Comptroller W. H. Evansor announced tonight more than 400 c the 1000 city employees who ioine hhS o hAPe'AhttiC " dlhOul nave dDpfle for reinstatement. Sixty-two fireme returned to Winnipeg fire stations to night, said Alderman J. K. Sparklins and others are expected back tomor row.
 EDMONTON, Alta, May 20. - Through the work of the citizens com mittee, street car service in Edmonto was resumed today, the third day ( the strike called in sympathy with th Winnipeg strikers. Police and fire men returned to their posts, workin under orders of the unions strike con mittee.
 CALGARY, Alta, May 2s-The A berta federation of labor has sent ol \ a call for a general strike vote of a f unions in the province, the result 9 which will be announced in a fe $ days. Calgary, in it's third day s strike activities, is continuing bus ness almost as normally.