The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-17
THE WINNIPEG STRIKE

For nearly a eyes n have been turned upon Winnipeg. For nearly month the citizens of Winnipeg have been fighting whole heartedly and with generous measure of success. against determined effort establish Bolshevism and the rule of the Soviet here and then expand Dominion
 In their fight, Citizens Winnipeg have machinations of pnn1har of confessed T,oshevists in the Winnipeg Labor Temple, between twenty and thirty thousand tricked and betrayed into great body middle-class whom the strike leaders sought to deprive of the necessities of life, of food and water, and of light police protec- tion and fire protection
 aroused them to organization action, and it sounded a note of warning throughout Cana da S o might expected all the Domin- ion if this effort to fasten Bolshevism upon Winni- peg were not decisvey defeated From the that the general tie-up took place dispute between some metal workers and their employers the general strike recognized attempt at revoluton-and the citizens proceeded to combat 1t such-
 The revolution in Winnipeg the outcome of Bolshevst movement started at Calgary last March and directed by the l. w W. organizations of the United States That convention elected a fed F1Ve' executive Canada of these is Victor Mdgely, of Vancouver, notorious agitator whose expulsion from Vancouver was demanded by returned soldiers last August when he and others led one-day gen. eral strike in that city in memoriam to a military stacker and defaulter who was shot while resisting arrest
 The second is w. A Pritchard, of Vancouver who participated in the same unpatriotc escapade- The third is Joseph Knight of Edmonton, of the most notorious of Western agitators of the mining districts and a who demands the release from internment of who actively working in
 
 The fourth is Joseph Mayler, Bolshevist by his admission, who is out to overturn the present system government And the fifth is R. j. Johns, of the worst Red agitators in Canada, Winnipeg who in 1917 a public meeting of Trades nd Labor Council urged general strike against conscription and national registration
 Johns is of the prime organizers of the Winnipeg strike and he also went to Toronto and largely Instrumental in bringing about the abor- tive general strike there Another local leader Mrs Helen Armstrong who, according to her word has spent years of her life in insane asylum Her husband, George Armstrong, another notorious Red is of the local leaders, who drew down himself the wrath of returned conscrption issue and 1atter1y returned soldiers went rampage against Bo1- meeting greetings he
 
 F. J. Dixon, a soap-box wh rnenn- Der of Legislature had to flee for his life by returned soldiers when he addressed a meeting in the Market Square 1917, counseing sist conscripon He is another of the leaders of the local revolt Still another is John Queen Socialist Alderman, who participated in the meetings and of the objects of the patriotic soldiers ire.
 the prime agitators in this defiance of authority active participants in the Red release of German agents others for the establish of Soviet government and proletarfan dictator dictatorship of labor by manipulated votes such as which brought about the general strike here
 A further leader is R. E. Bray who poses returned fighter but who the firing lines and who told Premier Norris in ccd-blood Juno he Bo1shevist and out for the establish ment of Soviet government in Winnipeg. The hfstor- survey of facts and the editorial expressions thereon, published below. clearly present the view point of tn great midde-class of Winnipeg. the in- nocent victims of the revolution:
 Now that the Winnipeg General Strike has pro- manv@ points outside of Wtnnpes, many request. have been received for history or review in the causes and Issues of this conditions which minsters of the Grown join with many others In describing ssreaaAaaesaes~ A1tesAe< r eHerf91 nnaner Gas