Sympathetic Strike Looms in Vancouver at 11 A.M.
A general sympathy strike in Vancouver, tied to the Winnipeg action, is set for 11 a.m. today with exemptions for firemen police bakers and bakery staff milk wagon drivers theatre hospital laundry hotel and restaurant workers and city workers on grave digging waterworks care. Ottawa and Toronto notes follow on labor relations and collective bargaining attitudes affecting railway and civil service unions across Canada.
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Vancouver
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Dominion Postal Clerks Association
General Council
The
Civil Service Federation
Dominion Executive
Toronto
R. C. Brown
Metal Trades Council
Metal Trades Workers
Brown
Canadian Press, Limited
L. L. Pelletier
Order of Railway Conductors
Big German Strike in Occupied Area Is Quelled
In Coblenz on June 3 a general strike across the occupied region lasted four hours from 9 to 1 amid protests over reports of a Rhine republic at Weisbaden. Railway and streetcar workers led the stoppage. Allied authorities warned of consequences if labor did not resume. The Interallied Railway Commission said all workers returned to duty and Coblenz papers denied the Weisbaden republic claim as German mischief.
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Pelletier
Winnipeg
Coblenz
Rhenish Republic
Weisbaden
Treves
Germany
Interallied Railway Commission
Explosions Prove Anarchy in the United States
Washington reports a spree of bomb explosions tied to the May Day outrages. Infernal machines were mailed from New York to government officials and public figures, signaling a renewed act of domestic unrest.
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Washington
New York
Retail Merchants convention delegates tour local industries
Delegates depart City Hall at 1 30 PM for a 1 5 to 20 minute stops at Hedley Shaw mill Ogilvie mill Tabor Candy Co Alta Farm Machine Co Lake of the Woods Milling Co Alberta Clay Products Co Medalta Stoneware Co Rosery Flower Co and Rolling Mills viewing Glass Works and other industries before returning to Medicine Hat by 7 30 PM led by Mr H I Ireland and the Alberta Foundry car others to follow
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Retail Merchants Convention
Hedley Shaw Mill
Ogilvie Mill
Polish-Lithuanian tensions spark demand for probe
Paris reports that Lithuanian authorities call for the Peace conference to name a commission to investigate alleged pogroms by Poles in Lithuanian territories occupied by Polish forces.
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Paris
Peace Conference
Lithuania
Petrograd Falls Reported by Unconfirmed Telegrams
Copenhagen June 8 Petrograd reportedly fell to Esthenian and Finnish forces per unconfirmed telegrams received by the Nuntionat Tidene.
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Copenhagen
Petrograd
Nuntionat Tidene
Troop Trains Seen From Ship Uraguay Arrival
A Hospital Special 421, operated by CPR, is due at Medicine Hut near midnight after arriving on the steamship Uruguay.
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C.P.R
Uraguay
Alberta Merchants Convene to Aid Returning Soldiers
The Alberta Branch of Retail Merchants open a session at City Hall with President T A Gaetz chairing. Delegates discuss postwar reconstruction, employing veterans, government plans, and support for the Great War Veterans Associations as they adapt to peacetime.
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Alberta
OGD
Retail Merchants’ Association
T. A. Gaetz
Red Deer
Ottawa
Huckvale
Cypress Club
Hill
Taber
Ilsey
Calgary
Scott
Edmonton
J.kellas
Medicine Hat
Gillies
Wes
Canada
Dominion
Autonomy Declared for New Rhenish Republic
Telegrams claim that Dr. Dorten has been named president as delegates from Rhenish regions proclaim autonomy from June 1. The move follows meetings in Aix la Chapelle Mayence and Weisbaden and seeks peace recognition, while the German government orders Dr. Dorten arrest and protests British and French officers.
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Arenige Republic
DR. Dorten
Rhinelands
Berlin
Rhenish Republic
Paris
Spa
Armistice Commission
Goungil Hears Report On Police Chief Appointment Next Meeting
The council met with Acting Mayor Huckvale in charge. Corr respondence from local groups and a delegation from the Agricultural Society dominated discussion. The body weighed a $5 000 grant for an agricultural fair with possible profits and government support, and considered transport, advertising, and fundraising issues.
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Goungil
Police
Agricultural Society
Board of Trade
Council
C. G. Murphy
The
Green Lantern
Murphy
Cousins
Col. Sissons
Morrow
Col
Ncl
Ald. McLarty
Finlay
Ald
Burns
Hotson
Hole
Canada
Fawcett
Porter's Hill
Finnish Red Guards Reach Reval for Talks with Government
Representatives of the Finnish Red Guards arrived in Reval and began negotiations with Finnish government delegates. The British consul joined the discussions. The Red negotiators were prepared to travel by a British warship but the meeting took place in Reval instead.
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Helsingfors
Red Guards
Reval
Russian Bolshevik Plot Uncovered in Finland
Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen reports a wide scale Bolshevik conspiracy uncovered in Finland with numerous arrests. The dispatch notes the dramatic crackdown and ongoing investigations across the region.
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London
Finland
Copenhagen
Renner Declares Austrian Republic Separate From Hapsburg Line
Dr Karl Renner chairman of the Austrian delegation announces after receiving the treaty that the German Austrian republic is separate from the former Hapsburg Empire. He outlines the history of its establishment and emphasizes no ties to the old dynasty.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Firemen
Brotherhood
Order of
Brandon
Labor
Norris
Manitoba
Wight
Mitchell Palmer
Petiro
Petrograd Falls
Somme
Ving
G. Murphy
Union of Canadian Municipalities
Alberta Candy Co
Civic Employees’ Union
John Boyd
J. W. Hamilton
Ald. Bell
Parks Committee
Wapsburgs
W.M
Medicine Hat Rifle Association
Thos, Montgomerie
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