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Newspaper
Winnipeg Citizen
Location
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
3
The Mayor Charles F. Gray urges citizens to stay off streets after large crowds gathered yesterday. He warns that lawlessness will be curbed and sterner methods may be used to enforce order in Winnipeg. Dated June 11, 1919.
The Citizen corrects yesterday’s report on the City Council vote. Alderman Wiginton supported the $150,000 police preservation appropriation, not opposed, and is credited with the affirmative vote.
A Chicago News summary warns that true labor leaders in Canada push for a sympathetic general strike to aid Canadian workers, but it notes the American Federation of Labor rejects such tactics. It recalls the IWW's separate stance and the AFL’s long history of avoiding general strikes while growing to over 2.5 million members.
A manuscript argues for a planned economy where workers control industry and leadership by working men, condemns honest labor, warns against destroying leaders of industry, and asserts inherent inequality in abilities while claiming widespread hunger would follow if genius is removed from directing society.
Secretary Frank Morrison announced that the American Federation of Labor will move to dissociate organized labor from anarchist and Bolshevist elements at its Atlantic City convention opening June 9. Resolutions denouncing radicals and a recent bomb plot are expected, with local unions urged to bar lawless factions and ensure orderly strikes.
In this reflection from Limerick Ireland shopkeepers and labor councils, the author argues unions aid reform but warn against anarchist influence. They advocate secret ballots, balanced oversight by interested parties, and caution that a runaway One Big Union or IWW could erode workers and society within five years.
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