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Newspaper
Winnipeg Citizen
Location
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1919
Page
3
A Winnipeg citizens committee urges the city to organize a permanent volunteer fire brigade after firemen abandon their posts. Mass demonstrations press Premier Norris to end the sympathetic strike and allow collective bargaining.
The article argues that Winnipeg’s labor movement fell under radical influence, ousting sane leaders like R. A. Rigg F. G. Tipping and Arthur W. Puttee. It contends the general strike and depowered councils threaten organized labor, urging voter turnout to reclaim control and prevent further disarray. Toronto report notes abattoir workers returning to work.
Alderman Abraham A Heaps claimed Liverpool dock laborers would halt all ocean freight to Canada during Winnipeg general strike. Liverpool dockmen officials rejected the claim stating no such decision was made. Freights to Canada continue normally.
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