Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-30
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From winnipeg II In predicted that
the strike there will soon be settled. "
has cost employers and employees NIL
lions that neither will regain; has cost
the lives Of children refused mix, ex-
cent thru the nod of strike commit
tee" which refused bread and milk
wagons right TO carry those necessities
TO a POPULATION In no wise Responsible
for the disputes and perhaps little
concerned regarding the difficulties
between metal workers and employers
Gasolenc was sold only by permission OF
this STRIKE committed" Newspapers
were suppressed by the same SUI
preme" authority. Transportation was
throttled.
The government ministers sent TO
Winnipeg to investigate the strike
state after investigation that II was
not a strike, that the labor excuse was
mere excuse and that it was another
attempt like that choked in it's cradle
by Ole Hanson at Seattle, u bolshevik
attempt at revolution. The manner In
which it was conducted by the social
cd central body" corroborates the con-
illusions Of the Canadian minister OF
labor. 1t was modelled after the soviet
plan, conducted as nearly as possible
in the fashion set by Lenihe and Trot-
,,,th zvtt
labor and society in general that Will
liam Hohenzollern or the car would
not have dared assume.
City employees, well paid and pos
sessed of perquisites assisted to estab-
lish insanitation in the city that paid
them. conspired to put great city and
its property in the deadly fear of fire
which could not be controlled with a
water pressure cut to less than thirty
pounds by the strike committee. Well
paid employees of transportation lines
deliberately denied the people opportu-
nifty to get to and from business. and
about the necessary activities Of life.
Winnipeg was ruled by a coterie which
assumed the Nietsche right to rule ar
bitrarily. without observance Of law or
responsibility to the public, a class
committee created out of class of
class and essentially unrepresentative
even OF the labor centrals that had vot-
ed a strike and turned over to a COM
mittee like that the imperial power to
rule by fear and threat and in defiance
of law and without consideration Of the
rights of those not involved in the con-
troversy.
The Canadian ministers are probably
right. The Winnipeg strike was doubt
less branch of the conspiracy smoth-
cred at Seattle. 1t is pity that Win
nipeg had not Hanson at hand.
Reversing the conditions as they
have been at Winnipeg, assuming that
employers had voted lockout that
they had turned over to a COMMITTEES
like that absolute powers, that busi-
hess, anxious to end the lockout, agreed
with the employers organization to de-
prive the children Of the locked out la
| borers milk and bread, to deny the
| locked out men and their families pro-
lection from fire, to deprive them OF
medical assistance except as the COM
mittee should permit the medical men
power to drive their cars. II such a
committee in such circumstances
should exert such pressure and as
sumo such absolutism the cutlery Of
rage and reprisal would ring around
| the world
| Something is radically wrong with
strikes like those at Seattle and VIM
nipeg. There is no liberty and equal
| ity but slavery in them.