Strike Breakers Stay on the Job at the CUM Depot
Excitement rose as a westbound train arrived with a carload of workers bound for Wycliffe. Pickets tried to block the move but the car was diverted and workers went to camps 17 miles beyond, expanding Staples Lumber Co. payroll by 67 men. Debate centers on strike tactics and interference with transportation as LW and W organizers provoke crossings and employment office picketing amid public editorials opposing IWW influence.
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Cum
Wycliffe
20Th Century Limited
Staples Lumber Co
Taker Street
LW. W
Calvary Oils
Mit
LWW
Belle
Mike McDonald
Calgary Herald
Canada
W. W
the Herald
Dominion
British Columbia
Herald
League of Nations
Cranbrook Loggers Strike: Optimistic I W W View
An I W W Cranbrook special reports record strike solidarity and fundraising. More men out than earlier, bosses advertising for recruits, 500 strikers fed across the territory, Wentworth Hotel dining space used, outlook of victory strong.
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RE. Kootenay
Cranbrook
Seattle Industrial Worker
B.C
Winnipeg
Medicine Hat
Wentworth Hotel
Junior Musical Society Concert Next Week at Cranbrook
A Rogers Cranbrook program announcement details a two night Junior Musical Society concert at the Auditorium on February 22 and 23. Directed by G E Bower, fifty five performers in costumes will present a sequence of songs dances and an operetta with an eighteen piece orchestra. Tickets open February 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Musical Society of Cranbrook
G. E Bower
Junior Musical Society
G. Eo Bower
Joe Lebolt
Haydn
Gavotte
iSeredy
Princess Chrysanthemum
Oelock
Obituary of Wilmot C. Maan era Tuesday
The death of Wilmot Charles, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wilson, follows an appendectomy and pneumonia after a week of illness. He was eight years old, a Central school pupil, and had just moved to high grade three. Private funeral from the family home on Lumsden Avenue with Rev. F. W. Harrison officiating. interment at Knights of Pythias plot. Survivors include his mother, father, and a six year old brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Wilson
Wilmot Charles
Andather
Lumsden Avenue
F. W. Harrison
Knights of Pythias
Charlie
Central School
February event lineup at local venues listed
Advertised events include a parents teachers social at the YMCA on Wednesday February 20 with music, Princess Crysanthemum by the Junior Musical Society February 22 and 23 at the Auditorium, Banff Orchestra dance February 25, Follies Leap Year February 29, GRC Novelty Dance February 29 at the Recreation Club, Annual Tennis Club Dance March 8, and St Patrick's Day Masquerade Ball March 17 by the G W V A at the Auditorium.
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GRC
the Recreation Club
St. Patrick's Day
Beer Act Explained Ahead of Plebiscite
The Herald publishes an explanation from N A Wallinger M I A of the beer legislation passed in Victoria and the upcoming summer plebiscite. The piece notes it was delayed and will be continued next week.
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Herald
N. A. Wallinger
M.I.A
Victoria
Finance Committee
Police Commission
Much Business for City Council
The regular city council meeting covered diverse agenda items. Delegations urged more frequent dairy inspections, touristic ground management, and 50 cent nightly charges. the works and health boards would review. Women’s Institute requests included cemetery management and street lighting, while recreation club funding and water service extensions were discussed with mayoral and committee considerations.
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G. J. Spreull
Council
Dr. Rutledge
Balment
R. P. Moffatt
Finance Committee
Board of Trade
Fink
Dunlop
Works Committee
Nergrove
Women’s Institute
Norgrove
A. G. Hill
W. I
P. Adams
H. Doris
Health Board
Hicks
M. A. Beale
Salters
Balment J
Silver Foxes Ltd
John Martin
Jas
J .M. Clark
Kerrigan
Meetings of Kootenay Presbyterial in Cranbrook this week
Meetings of the Kootenay Presbyterial comprising various branches of the Presbyterian WOM were held at Knox Church in Cranbrook this week. Greetings from local denominations accompanied the opening sessions, with papers on Home Helpers Work and Cariboo mission topics followed by lantern slides on Central India. Officers were elected for Grand Forks next year, and bids were set to sell the Arena rink with proceeds for city improvements.
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Kootenay
GG. I. T
Wo Mack
A. D. Bridges
FV. Harrison
Creston
Sherwood
Dow
Broie
Nelson
Dill
Runnels
Grand Parks
James
Cariboo
Fisher
Fernie
Gee
Sutherland
WA. Nisbet
E.W. MacKay
B C. Freeman
Central
India
Dorothy Kilpatrick
Norgrove
FB. Paterson
Paul
Sesson
Boomer
MacMillan
Trail
Grand Forks
M. McEachern
J. F. Smith
McKee
Cranbrook
Glaspell
Little
Wo MacKay
Hales
Kingston
Grady
City
Bro- Arena
Conference of District Farmers' Institutes Opens Strong
The Conference of District Farmers Institutes in East Kootenay drew large attendance from Windermere Fernie Cocato Jaffray Wardner Baynes Cranbrook and Glenlily districts. Delegates and officials including Dr Wharnock CE Whitney Griffiths J Bricker Good and R G Newton discussed forming a permanent Central Institute and debated widened sleigh gauge amid lively sessions and local hospitality.
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East Kootenay
Windermere
Fernie
Cocato
Jaffray
Wardner
Baynes
Cranbrook
Glenlily
Dr. Wharnock
CE Whitney Griffiths
Farmers’ Institutes
Vancouver Island
J. Bricker
Good
Kootenay
R. G. Newton
Domitton
Invermere
A le Hay
A. B. Smith
Farmers’ Institute
Smith
A. J. Hay
Messrs
Tompkins
Quail Draper
Crow
Lawson
Barhard
Smith and Mott
Harper
Newton
Draper
Sahlne Huged Gil
Wedding of Miss Lillian Roadhouse to John A. McEachern
Miss Lillian Roadhouse and John A. McEachern wed at the Roadhouse residence in Winnipeg Street with Rev. D. M. Perley officiating. The couple, later honeymooning in Calgary, will reside in Cranbrook where the groom works in the lumber business.
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Penticton Herald
Thos. Roadhouse
Winnipeg Street
Lillian Blanche Roadhouse
John A. Mc Keachern
Cranbrook
D. M. Perley
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Wyelife Camps
Seattle
Labor Paper
Ste Ohlef
American Federation of Labor
Canadian
I. W W
British Columba
Wilmot Charles Wilson
J. B. Haslam
Coleman
Alberta
Evan Baker
Methodist
Striday
Y.M.C.A
Pam
Banff Orchestra
Tan
Alderman Fink
Vancouver
Calgary
J. Little
A. J Balment
G. D. Carlyle
W .A. Fergie
A. A. MacKinnon
Rinkrats
Iadies
B. Paterson
Taylor
WH. Wilson
Worden
McMillan
Dredge
Jas. Brodie
J. Stobo
Arthur
Corrie
Ingram
McEachery
Texas
Liquor Control Board
Xact
Slaterville
Western Grocers
Cameron & Lang
D. A. Burton
Bowness Export Co
F. Parks
Water Committee
Electric Light Committee
Austin
Sasha Door Co
MacPherson
Bronsdon
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