TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919, gnc STURY OF BIG STRIKE MOST UNIQUE STRUGGLE IN HIS- TORY OF CANADA. Extreme Labor Forces Endeavor to Control City of. Winnipeg and for Six Weeks the Conflict Between Workers and Constituted Auth® ority Was Carried On-----Methodist Clergyman Acted as Leader of Men. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG I the metal frades employes. First serious riots of strike ofcur at corner | of Portage and Malo streets. Sergt. I F. G. Copplos, V.C., pulled from his | i horse and badly beaten up by aliens. | | Special force increased by an 'addi- | | tional thousand men. Deadlock in | | metal trades dispute announced. Ar- | ice from eity schowls. June 11.---Chief of Police Mac- pherson dismissed, and the reorgani- zation of lorce ed in the hands of Deputy Newton, as acting chief, pecial Constable Morrison attacked t Higgins and Main streets, and ac | rangements are made for delivery of n i PLAN ENORMOUS DAM. i Ingenious Scheme to Heat Maritime | Provinces, | Modern ingenuity has discovered | A most efficient mode of heating | houses in winter--that of hot water. | Furnace and caldron ire sometimes, i the case of hospitals or other { | large buildings, placed at a distance | {from the apartments io be warmed. {In such cases pipes omduct heated | { water into the radiators and back | again when cooled. Thus, cool water {1s 'contidually entering ths bottom | {of the caldron while heated water | At 67 Clarence St., Kingston you can secure your Life, Fire, Accident and Sickness, Automobile, Marine IRTREE Nik gree and Plate Glass Insurance. ; cldentally shot by man who came to ERE are the outstanding developments of the most 'remarkable strike in the : history of Canada, which ended in Winnipeg on June 26th:-- May 1.--Men +in' the building trades strike. trades workers May 9.-- Trades and Labor Council order all unions to take a strike vote, yeturnable Tuesday May 13. May 13.--General strike called to take effect Thursday, May 15, at 11 am, May 15.----General walkout. All big utliities affected. Street carmen, postal employes, firemen, civic em- es, railway shopmen and mem- of practically all the smaller {anions afiliated with the Trades and Council quit work, Police did Bot go out on order of the Strike ttee, and the Typographical refused to even take strike 16.--Webb pressmen and 80 out, tying up all daily 17.~Telegraphers quit, iso- from the outside Papers cut off; malls cut off; cut off, May 16.--"Permission Cards" is- Press appears | Permission of the Strike | " with & two-page issue, is increased to eight pages on 24.--TFederal Government | ultimatum to postal employes Provincial Government to tele employes that they must re- to work > noon on May 26th {May 326.--Volunteer service in| office ae post begins. Telegraphers de- wide to stay out. General strikes at ry and Edmonton begin. 37--City Council declares original cause of the dispute until the sympathetic isthike is declared off. Many tele- 'phone empl: back at country Ki , one of the railway strike, 28.--8trike starts at Bran- leon. Tortion of railway mail clerks 3 out at midnight. Toronto strike ! offer to act as mediators. May 3 numbers of civie Ultimatum presented raliway mail clerks. Two new hands at post office. motion declaring strikes by civic em- illegal. 30.--Hon. Gideon Robertson iy of Calgary strike leaders control civie, Provincial and Governments, their plan be- to destroy constituted authority. lal trades employers accept offer mediation by railway brother oy 'mail clerks call ) ig 31.--R, A. Rigg, former seo- of the Trades and Labor Council had no anthor- strike, sympathy ste. parade, Estimated rine in wages to date $2,000,000. 2.~--Soldier strike sym his assistance, | June 12.---8ection of running trades employes threaten to join 'in {sympathetic strike, Senator Robert- {son renews conferences towards set- | tlement of strike. F. B. Stacey de- iclares In House of Commons that | principal question of hour is "shall {Union Jack or Red flag rule in | Canada." | June 13.---Re ntatives of run- ning trades visit City Council and threaten to strike Immediately if general strike is not settled. Num- ber of men afterward quit work. June 14.---James Murdock, vice- president of International Order of Railway Trainmen, announces dis- qualification of all trainmen out on strike. Mediators disband because ironmasters reject their proposal, which employes accepted. June 15.~-Metal employers issue definition of collective bargaining endorsed by mediators, railway man- agers and Minister of Labor. Strike of running trades men fails to ti€ up train service. June 16. ---Crescent Creamery starts a house cde delivery in the western part «f the city. Indica- tions of improvement in strike situ ation In Winnipeg, Vancouver and Toronto. June 17.~--R. E. Bray, R. B. Rus- sell, William Ivens, John M. Queen, A. A. Heaps, George Armstrong and four Russians arrested on warrants issued by the Federal Government {on charges®of seditious conspiracy. Taken to Stony Mountain Peniten- tiary. Labor Temple also raided and number of documents seized. Street {car company issues ultimatum to employes to return to work Wednes- | day morning or be dismissed. Sen- ator Robertson isswes statement de- claring documents seized in Labor Temple show deep and serious con- spiracy against constituted govern- ment in Canada. . June 18.---Manitoba Methodist Conference removes name of William Ivens from roll of ministers of the church, Bérvice of fourteen street | cars on Portage avenue in operation all day without any serious trouble. Special constables go on point duty at 11 o'clock. Carimnen, members of international railway organization, send letters to Trades Council urge ing strike be called off. June 19.--~Improvement reported in street car, railways and food sit- uation. Bail granted Russell, Ivens, Queen, Hedps, Bray and Armstrong set at $2,000 and men released. June 30.--~Returned soldiers strik- | ers hold meeting in Market Square | and resolva to hold "silent parade" despite Mayor Gray's proclamation: Mayor Gray issues third proclama- tion expressing determination to op- | bose threatened parade. v2 | Jume 21.--Attempt of soldiers and strikers to hold parade prevented by mounted police, special police and soldiers. Rioting results in which two men are killed, thirty' seriously Injured, and 100 arrested. Street cars are ordered off streets by police. | June 23.--Mayor Gray issues an- other proclamation prohibiting meet- ings in parks, streets or public places. Military authorities issue warning against improper wearing of uni- forms. Builders' exchange rejects offer of Strike Committee to neégo-- tiate settlement until sympathetic | strike is called off. Street car ser- | vice resumed, there being no service. on Sunday. Western Labor News suppressed and J. S. Woodsworth, dling editor, arrested for seditious June 24.--Strikers {ssue paper called "Western Star." No bail giv. en to Woodsworth. W. A: Pritchard of Vancouver placed in Stony Moun- ary, June 35.--Strike Committee issues paper called "The Enlight. | ener," announces return to work unconditionally for Thursday, June 26, at 11 a.m., thus ending the six weeks' general sympathetic strike. ------------ Grateful to Canada. ~ A Connecticut soldier, Gunner Harry Smith, who enlisted in. the Canadian army, Jie the New Jost es expressing gratitude fo his tréatment by this Dominion. 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