Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-10
SO Far. As Safety, Welfare
And Convenience OF Cen
eral Public Is Concerned,
The Strike Means Very
Little, Say Officials OF
The City.

Winnipeg, Man., June 1O.-The
sympathetic strike of Winnipeg iron
workers which began on May Is. was
considered broken this forenoon, so
far as it's effect upon the safety, well
fare and convenience of the general
public is concerned. 1t was estimated
that about one-third. of the men and
women involved in the sympathetic
walkout have returned to work and
that many others have applied for
their former positions.
Would Enlarge Strike.
There was no outward disposition
on the part of the union leaders TO
call off the sympathetic walkout. how
ever. The strike executives this fore
noon gave out a report that a number
of Canadian trades councils were
preparing to come ITO the assistance
of Winnipeg workers"
Groups of union men openly dis
cussing the advisability of applying
for their old jobs stood in front of
labor headquarters this morning. The
spokesman for one group was heard
to refer. to certain strike captains Mas
'.bloody agitators."
Street railway officials informed the
city that they would take action to-
day on the request made by the city
council last night that street car serv-
ice be resumed Immediately
A Separate Issue.
Collapse Of the sympathetic strike
does not mean the end of Winnipeg 8
strike problems, however. The dis
pute between the metal trades coun-
Gil, the largest union body in Win
nipeg, and the Industrial Employers
is considered a separate ISSUE. When
the employers and the men failed to
agree on a plan of collective bargain
ing, the central strike committee or
dered the general sympathetic walk
out. May Is. The announced pur-
pose was to completely paralyze fed
era1, provincial, municipal and private
services and enterprises.
The situation Today.
The situation this morning seems to
be as follows:
The government postal service is
close to normal. Striking employees
the government to reinstate them
The provincial telephone service Is
being maintained on a partly normal
basis by volunteers and few veter-
an employees. All city departments
employing clerical help are normal
The fire department is close to nor
NAL Some stations are completely
manned With veterans awho autt the
signed The pledees srep BUD diatihg sym.
pathetic strikes Commercial and
press operators formally asked for re-
instatement Many commercial op.
orators are at work. The high pres
sure water employees are back. Mu-
nicipal waterworks employees have an
nounced their intention of returning
to work. Department stores reported
additional reinstatement applications
from clerks and drivers 1t was stat
ed at the board of trade that scatter
/ing reports indicated from two thou
sand, to three thousand workers OF
various crafts had gone back to their
Jobs Or were comforting with their
employers. Several hundred union
men are on duty in the three railroad
shops, according to an announcement
by a railway official. A few of the
policemen dismissed yesterday signed
the new pledge to mot participate In
sympathetic strikes. Vacancies are
being filled. ...
Nothing regarding "Soviet govern.
ment' has been heard from the
Western Labor News for severa
days That possibility, openly dis.
cussed at the opening of the general
sympathetic strike, seems to have lex.
pired when the returned soldiers re.
pudiated the industrial upheava1 as q
plan to overturn constitutional gov.
ernment.
For the first time since the strike
began there was no important fore.
noon development. The strike forces
added few men to their ranks. They
unionized the grave diggers and these
men quit work.