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Hellraisers Journal – Friday June 27, 1919
Winnipeg, Manitoba – General Strike Called Off
From The Butte Daily Bulletin of June 25, 1919:
WINNIPEG STRIKE ENDS
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Strike Committee After All Night Session Decides
to Let Government Commission Investigate.
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(Special to The Bulletin.)
Winnipeg. June 25.-The general strike which has lasted more than 40 days, will end Thursday at 11 o’clock. This announcement was made after an all-night session of the general strike committee. Sympathetic strikes in other cities will end at the same hour.
The decision of the strike committee, which ends a struggle that will have been exactly six weeks in effect at 11 o’clock Thursday, follows a conference of the delegates of the strike committee with Premier Norris and members of the provincial government yesterday.
The men forward the proposition that if the government would appoint a commission to investigate the strike and settle all disputes they would call off the general strike. The reply of the government was that the general strike must be called off first.
If that were done, then a commission, headed by H. A. Robertson [Hugh Amos Robson], would be appointed. It has been intimated that it had been the intention of the government for some weeks to appoint a commission, but action by the strike committee was awaited in regard to calling off the strike.
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[Newsclip added from Winnipeg Evening Tribune of June 26, 1919. Emphasis added.]
From the Western Labor News of June 27, 1919:
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SOURCES
Quote Wpg GS Spirit Unbreakable, Western Labor News of May 19, 1919
https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2998618
-See also:
“UNBREAKABLE
The Spirit of the Strike
A digital exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike”
The Butte Daily Bulletin
(Butte, Montana)
-June 25, 1919
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045085/1919-06-25/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGES
Wpg GS, Strike Ends, Wpg Tb p1, June 26, 1919
https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1692868
Western Labor News
“Issued by the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council”
(Winnipeg, Manitoba)
-June 27, 1919
https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2758669
See also:
Tag: Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
https://weneverforget.org/tag/winnipeg-general-strike-of-1919/
Royal Commission
-to enquire into and report upon the causes and effects of the General Strike which recently existed in the City of Winnipeg for a period of six weeks, including the methods of calling and carrying on such strike
Report of H. A. Robson, K.C.
Commissioner
-by Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nov 6, 1919
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4525.html
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