Postal workers fail to sway Ottawa on Winnipeg strike
A Winnipeg delegation of the Amalgamated Postal Workers failed to persuade the government to reinstate strike breakers after a sympathetic postal strike on May 15. Sir Robert Borden outlined three points and the cabinet would not retreat, ending the effort. The case centers on permanent appointments of workers who crossed the picket line.
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Ottawa
Winnipeg
Amalgamated Postal Workers
C. Silvertz
Victoria
L. Pickup
J. Vv. Johnston
A. Venables
Calgary
Mr. Silvertz
Robert Borden
Meighen
Belgium Ratifies Peace Treaty and War Victory Address
Belgium moves to ratify the treaty with Germany as foreign minister presents bills in parliament. King Albert’s letter praising victory and urging national unity is read to a patriotic demonstration. The senate approves bills honoring those killed or executed in the war.
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Brussels
Germany
Albert
Senate
Forest fires claim two farms near Haileybury
In the Sharp Lake fire west of Haileybury Ontario two farms lost buildings. Victims named Qisern and Fernholm. Flames spread amid rising wind, threatening other properties. Light showers brought little relief. Frederick House saw Beaver Board company plant menaced but intact.
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Haileybury
Frederick House
The
Beaver Board Company
Winnipeg Strike Ends With Mixed Reinstatement
The Western Labor News reports after nine weeks of strike metal shop workers returned to work though not all were reinstated and some refused the offered conditions. The big three employers oppose collective bargaining and refuse to deal with union business agents, while some smaller firms recognize unions in the true sense.
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Winnipeg
The
Western Labor News
Pantages Vaudeville at Saskatoon and Regina Theatres
At the Empire theatre Saskatoon and the Regina theatre Regina for the fair weeks three shows daily feature famous Pantages vaudeville acts. About 20 premiere artists will perform with movies in a two hour program. This adds strong attraction to the fair.
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Saskatoon
Empire Theatre
Regina Theatre
Regina
Food Riots in Forlì Italy Shock City Over Living Costs
A large crowd in Forlì attacked shops refusing to lower prices after inflammatory speeches. The mob looted, destroyed property, and seized goods to be distributed or sold cheaply under socialist supervision. Municipal authorities estimate 8 million lire in goods stored for the public.
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Fork
Italy
Spezia
Forli
Chamber of Labor
Poles Launch Wide Counter Offensive in Galicia Front
Warsaw reports a broad counter-offensive along the Galician Volhynian front with Polish forces breaking Ukrainian lines. Polish units claim control of the Lemberg Halicz Stanislaus railway and capture 3,000 prisoners, 30 machine guns, and large stores. Brody Pluchow Pomor zany Brzezany fall and 1,000 more prisoners taken. Ukrainians reportedly surrender at many points. Lemberg confirms multiple penetrations. Ukrainian prisoners stream in as evacuees return. Bolshevik attacks on Poland repelled.
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Paris
Warsaw
Lemberg
Halicz Stanislaus
Brody
Pluchow
Pomorzany
Brzezany
Don Cossacks seize Millerovo as Bolsheviki retreat
Ekaterinodar reports Don Cossacks occupy Millerovo breaking the Bolsheviki front north of the town. The Kuban Cossacks rout four infantry and two cavalry regiments in the advance. West of Ekaterinodar Bolshevik forces are defeated on the Kerch peninsula at the eastern Crimean frontier.
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Ekaterinodar
Millerovo
Kertch
Crimea
Toronto Strike Totals 11000 Workers Across Trades
Figures from affected trades show 11,000 workers on strike in Torosito including 7,000 in metal trades 2,200 street railwaymen and 1,800 garment workers.
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Toronto
Torosito
Germans Sail From Charleston to Rotterdam for Repatriation
A trainload of Germans formerly interned at Fort Ogiethorpe boarded the transport Princess Mateike in Charleston for voyage to Rotterdam to be repatriated.
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Charleston
S.C
Fort Ogiethorpe
Princess Mateike
Rotterdam
Reign Of Terror In Russia Shocks U.S. Official
John A Embury the U S consul at Omsk described Bolshevik rule in Ufa and surrounding areas with accounts of mass executions looting and arson. He presented photographs he took or obtained showing massacred women and children and claimed thousands of bodies in Uta and Ossa.
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New York
Russia
John A Embury
United States
Omsk
Kolchak
Kry
Embry
Uta
Ita
Ichak
Ufa
Uta High Thar
Pensions Bill Discussed at GW V.A. Convention
Major George B Andrews MP for Centre Winnipeg said the new pensions bill will be debated in parliament this session and noted it meets general provisions of any pensions bill in the world. He spoke after a resolutions committee presented a 17 section resolution incorporating veterans’ wishes from many branches.
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Vancouver
George B. Andrews
Centre
Builders Return as Winnipeg Trades End Strike Long Vacation
Thirteen building trades unions resume work after a nine week strike. Contractors rush plans for spring construction that had been halted, with work restarting before the short remaining season ends.
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Winnipeg
Lord Raleigh Dies in London Milk Shop Pioneer
Baron John William Strutt known as the peer shopkeeper has died in London at age 84. He built a chain of milk shops supplied from his own farm, gaining prominence in Victorian era business circles.
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London
Peace River coal leases cancelled and council of five formed
A senate select committee investigation led to cancelation of coal leases in the Smoky River district of Alberta. Arthur Meighen ordered the cancellations, halting the Athabasca Grande Prairie and Vermilion railway project. Meanwhile a new five member conference council formed in Paris will direct peace conference affairs. The council includes Balfour Lansing Picc Ion Makino and Baron Makino.
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Ottawa
Select Committee
Senate
Smoky River
Alberta Peace River
Fdlmonton
Arthur Meighen
Interior
Athabasca, Grande Prairie and Vermilion
Geological Survey Branch
Paris
Clemenceau
Balfour
Lansing
Pixchen
Baron Makino
Viscount Chinda
Japan
Tittoni
Italy
Council of Five
Bare Makino
Council of Ten
Wittoni
Austria
Fiume
Signor
Hoover resigns as head of United States Grain Corp
Herbert Hoover steps down as chairman of the board of the United States Grain Corporation at the annual stockholders meeting. Julius Barnes will serve as chairman and Hoover will remain a director, signaling his withdrawal from public life while retaining involvement with the organization.
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Grain Corporation
New York
Herbert Hoover
The
Food Administration Grain Corporation
United States Grain Corporation
Hoover
Julius Barnes
Help In Time Of Trouble Paris
The Journal notes that the Franco-British and Franco-American treaty calls for British and American intervention for France against Germany as a combined action. It adds that separate intervention would be ineffective and stresses that aid should come if Rhine disarmament cannot shield France from aggression.
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M. Makiahoff
Paris
Bessarabia
Rumania
Romania
France
United States
Great Britain
Germany
United States Senate
Belgium
Holland
Rhine
Vast French reconstruction plan announced in chamber
Paris announced a 40 billion franc reconstruction program for all of France. The plan covers railways, canal projects and harbor improvements with some rail lines to be electrified. In New York the Vulcan Steel Products Co. won a $250 million contract to rebuild Nancy district, according to financial circles.
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Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
M. Bedouce
New York
Nancy
Vulcan Steel Products Company of
Revolt Flares in Berlin as Communist Influence Grow
In Greater Berlin the strike movement shows signs of developing into a political insurrection. Independent Socialists and their Communist supporters act boldly, signaling a more precarious footing than in March.
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Berlin
Toolt
Vaudeville Seats Reserved by Mail in Regina and Saskatoon
The Pantages theatres in Regina and Saskatoon allow mail reservations for the fair week attraction. The program features top vaudevillians and promises prompt, courteous service by theatre managers upon receiving a note with your seating wishes.
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Regina
Pantages
Saskatoon
Times
Open to Returned Soldiers Winnipeg
S Larkin of the Winnipeg Land Settlement board says the Dominion government plans to open the Riding Mountain and Turtle Mountain forest reserves in Northwest Manitoba for soldier settlement schemes.
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Winnipeg
S. Larkin
Winnipeg Land Settlement Board
Dominion
Riding Mountain
Turtle Mountain
Manitoba
Senate votes against amendment on prohibition bill
The Senate refused to press the amendment, voting 30 to 23 against government leader Sir Lough Eed’s motion. The defeat narrows passage as the chamber rejects altering the prohibition bill.
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Senate
Ottawa
Sir Flames Lougheed
Six Soldiers Held Over Sergeant Killing In Riot
A coroner's jury at Epsom returned a manslaughter verdict against six soldiers already committed for trial in connection with the killing of a police sergeant during a riot at Camp Bugler. Robert Tedd identified as camp bugler is noted in the case.
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London
Epsom
Robert Tedd
Cry Tomorrow Bad Laugh Today
The fragment suggests reflection on timing and mood, contrasting an impending cry with a bad laugh in the present moment. It reads as a terse, emotional line without clear people, places, or events to anchor a historical news card.
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