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Hellraisers Journal: Winnipeg Strike Called Off Thursday after All-Night Session of General Strike Committee

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Quote Wpg GS Spirit Unbreakable, WLNs May 19, 1919———-

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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Wpg GS, Strike Ends, Wpg Tb p1, June 6, 1919

(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.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Winnipeg Labor Temple Raided; Ten Strike Leaders Transported to Stonewall Penitentiary

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Quote Joe Hill, General Strike, Workers Awaken, LRSB Oct 1919———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 21, 1919
Winnipeg, Manitoba – News from the General Strike

From The Butte Daily Bulletin of June 18, 1919:

Wpg GS, Raid on Labor Temple, Btt Dly Bltn p1, June 18, 1919
Wpg GS, Ten Labor Leaders Arrested, Btt Dly Bltn p1, June 18, 1919

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(Special United Press Wire.)

Winnipeg, June 18.-As a result of the sensational raid made here by federal officials, 10 labor leaders are prisoners and are being held incommunicado in Stony Mountain penitentiary, with the northwest mounted police guarding the labor temple. No person is permitted within 100 yards of the building. Warrants were issued for four others.

Military intelligence officers and other government officers have been planning the raid for a week, but had deferred action until the government could supply the powerful weapon desired in the drastic deportation act. Under this law all aliens and “British-born trouble makers” can be deported.

Charge Inciting Police Force.

The arrests were based on warrants charging “inciting the police force to neglect of duty” and responsibility for publication in the strike bulletin last Wednesday of a special article containing “false and libelous statements.” The story was headed, “Police Replaced by Thugs,” and vigorously attacked the special constables. Civic authorities were assailed for dismissing the regular police force.

The 10 men in prison are Aldermen John Queen and A. C. Capps [A. A. Heaps], the Rev. William Ivens, George Armstrong, R. [B]. Russell, R. E. Bray, [M.] Charitonoff, Moses Almazoff, Mike Berentozuk [Verenchuck] and A. C. Schoppelreidk [S. Choppelrei].

The police also raided the labor temple, Ukrainian hall and Liberty hall, where a vast quantity of literature was seized. The utmost secrecy surrounded the plans for the arrests. Every man arrested submitted quietly on being shown the official warrant.

Of the four men for whom warrants were issued, Sam Blumenberg is reported to have crossed the border into the United States. W. A. Pritchard, a prominent Vancouver labor leader, is said to be on his way to the Pacific coast; R. J. Johns, local labor leader, is in Montreal, and B. Devyatkin, a Russian, cannot be located.

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