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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.]
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