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4,000 Veterans
At Winnipeg to
|War on^Reds'
Arrest and Punishment of
Bolshevik Labor Faction
Demanded and Deporting
of All Alien Disturbers
Soldier-Constables Asked
Discbarged Troops to Insist
Strike Leaders Agree on
Relief for Food Crisis
WINNIPEG, June 5?More than 4,000
Wnnipeg vcterans of thc great war,
including scores of officers and hun
drcds of union men, this afternoon
pledged themselves nnd their resources
to mnintain law and order in Winnipeg
and to stamp out Bolshevism and anar
chy from the forces of Winnipeg labor.
The meeting demanded that tho gov?
ernment bring to justice men Tespon
sib'o foT the Winnipeg strike, urjred
deportation of "all undesirable aliens"
and declared that "the only one big
union which Canadian soldiers would
recognize waa the Union Jack."
A parade of strikers and trympathis
?rs passed within a block of the Audl
tOTium where the soldiers were gath?
ered, many marcherB wearing returned
?Oldler buttons.
Mayor Gray, speaking at the meet?
ing, said:
"The strike leadeTS h.aTe publicly
attnounced that they intended to run
the city of Winnipeg. that they would
say who would eat and who would not
and they havo intimated they were
powerful enough to bring about a
change of government. I know that
the men who fought for the old flag
in Grance have had enough of Hunlsm
and "Bolshevism, and we're not going to
stand for it.r
Mayor Gray accepted tho offer of the
?oldiers to assist in maintaining law
and order by asking for 2,000 special
officers to guard property and act as
body guards for workmen who, he said,
had been intimidated.
Many returned soldiers marched to
the City Hall after the mass meeting
and were sworn in for constable duty.
When tbe parade neared the Municipal
Building men on the sidewalks cried,
"Scabs" and several fighte resulted
in arrests.
Mayor Gr:>.y announced that he was In
'"ermrd to-day by a government official
from Ottuwa that the machinery of the
federal government is in action and
that the arrest of several persons al
legcd to have fomented the Winnipeg
labor upheaval for the purpose of cattn
ing a Dominion revolution may be "ex?
pected within a short time."
^"holesale Furnishlng Men
I'ledge Jobs for Soldiers
Thc National Whole sale Men's
Furnishir.gs Association, at its meet?
ing held yesterday in tho Aldine Club,
unanimously adopted resolutions call
ing upon every member of the cTgan
iaation to do everything in his poweT
to fmd jobs for jobless soldiers.
The resolution urges "that all mem
bers of the association adjust their
manufacturing plans, wherever posai- I
ble, to absorb service men now look?
ing for work, as lt is the purpose of i
the association whole-heartedly to sup
pott the United States government in !
its work of caring for soldiers and
sailora now discharged from service."
?
Women's Trade League
For Soviet Recognition
State Action Demanded to Per- j
mit Women to Vote in
1920 Election
Special Correapondenee
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.?Interna?
tionalism was the predominent note at
the National Women's Trade Union
League convention to-day.
Resolutions passed were for imme?
diate llfting of the Russian blockade
on all fronts, withdrawal from Russia
at once of all American troops, recog?
nition without delay of the Russian
soviet government, both by the peace
conference at Versailes and by the
United States government and imme?
diate action on the part of state Tegis
latures toward ratifying the suffnige
amendment, special sessions to be
called wherever necessary to secure ac?
tion in time to permit women to vote
in the 1920 election.
3,000 Jobs on Farms
Offered to Soldiers
Positions in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut
Are Listed
Three thousand jobs are open to
discharged soldiers on farms of New
York, Now Jersey and Connecticut,
Dt. George W. Kirchwey, state di?
rector of the United States Empioy?
ment Service, announced yesterday.
The jobs are listed at 22 East Twenty
second Street. Tho wages offered are
from $50 a month up and expenses.
Colonel Arthur "Woods, who is as
sisting Secretary of War Baker to
place discharged service men, wrote
yesterday to the chairmen of the
House and Senate appropriation com?
mittees, asking approval of the $4,
608,000 appropriation proposed for
carrying on the work of the empioy?
ment service next year.
Colonel Wood wrote: "If tho United
States Empioyment Service were to go
out of business on July 1 the inter?
ests of the returning soldiers and
sailora who need assistance in trying
to reestablish themselves in civil life
would suffer to an extent which it is
difficult to overestimate. This em?
pioyment service extendB all over the
i country, and except for the various
j welfare associations, which in most
cases cooperate closely with the em?
pioyment service, is, of course, the
only comprehensivo placement ma?
chinery for soldiers and sailors."
U, S. Court Asked to Order
Overland Plant Reopened
Spicial Correspondence
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 5.?The aid of
the United States District Court haa
been sought to bring about the reopen
ing of the Overland plant closed two
days ago at the roquest of Mayor
Schreiber, following riotB in which two
were killed and twenty-fivo injured.
The Dail Overland Company filed
suit to-day asking the court to ordci
the plant opened and requcsting thai
various workers lnvolved be restrained
from interfering. Judge Killits has
set Saturday morning for hearing.
Paris Strike
Called Blow
At Clemenceau
Socialist and Bolshevik
Attempt to Overturn Pres
ent Government Declared
Bebind Labor Agitation
Nearly 400,000 Are Out
rorkers Remain Calm While
Radicals Slrive to Stir
Flames Into a Revolution
.Ww York Tribune
Special. Cable Service
(Copyrlglit, 3919, Now York Trlbuno Inc.)
PARIS, June 5.?Politieal agitators ?
. with Socialist or Bolshevist leanings
, are striving to blow on the fircs of
j French labor unrest until they rench
j thc proportior.s of a revolution. Can
I and will the present government secure
1 a settlemcnt between the employers
and tiie workers in time to prcvent
this dangerous growth? This is the
capital question to-day, while the num
I ber of strikers advanccs toward 400,000
! and thc Socialist organs are printing
' inflammatory encouragement.
The ostensible basis for the strikes
! is the failure of the employers cquit
| ably to apply the eight hour law, but
agitatorB aro seehing to secure con
demnation by the mass of the workers
of any action affecting iho Russian and
Hungnrian rt~olutions and at the samo
time stir up a national demand to
withdraw tho troops, implying the de?
feat and fall of the Clemenceau gov?
ernment.
Blow Aimed at Government
Tho conservatlve press is crying out
that the strikes at tho hour ot the
country's greatest economic need
mean national suickle, while the
Socialista claim that the manifesta
tions indicata that tho people desire a
Socialist form of governnient and that
t the restlessness is not confined to
France, but represents "the world in
the grip of a fever which is tho pre
cursor of the new day."
Meanwhilo the general attitude of
the strikers is calm, appearing to in
dicate that ultcrior politieal motives
at present do not move them, while
ofiicialn are Inclined to the belief that
Bolshevik and German money is be?
hind a great propaganda aimed at the
creation of such disorder ns to make
the imposition of terms on Germany
unfeasible. The "Journal Des Debats"
says:
"Te provent the bankruptcy of Ger?
many by condemning France thereto,
to paralyze confidence within our bor?
ders and reawaken it in the hcarts of
the enemy, giving him tho idea that
he can reject tho conditions, or at
least fail to respect them when once
accepted? that is the result intended.
Germany always counted on a Bolshe?
vist movement in France to finish us
during the war and to-day counts
theteon in order to eseape the just
consequences of defeat."
Lenine Group Small
It would be exaggeration to say that
the present manifeatations are of Bol
ahevlst origin. Leninism, as such, is
still confined to the small circle of
Longuet and the quasi-inteilectuals,
willing to adopt new and unknown
"doctrines." The great mass of the |
French peopie, however, are peasants j
?60 per cent of tlie population ?
notably enriched by the price of
cereals, etc., during the war and
steadily conservative in tendency.
Political changes are certain along i
other than Bolshevist lines, for it is j
impossible to deny the widespread dis-1
satisfaction of tho governcd with their j
rulers. Every wall is covered with j
posters calling on tho peopie to over
throw the "cheap politicians," while |
new political societies are forming j
everywhere in preparation for a gen-1
cral election which may come in July, j
though it is generally presumed it will
not be held until October. One of !
these associations known a3 "the party
of tho Fourth Republic," announces its
intention to send -100 former poilus as
candidates for Deputyships.
Agitators Are Busy
The general situation at pre3cnt i
among those following the strikes is j
purely a labor question, although !
ambitious agitators are striving to give
them a political extension, seeking to
fuse all form3 of unrest and dissatis
faction throughout the country in order
to attain their ends. The sober sense j
of the workers and of the mass of the
population hitherto has been unaffected
thereby and there is not likely to be
u countrywido movement of any kind
while discussions affecting the na?
tional welfare are known to be going
on in the council of four. Yet when
psaco is signed thero are surpriscs in
store.
Laundry Wrorkers Quit
PARIS, .fune 5 (By tho Associated
Press)..Thero was a further increase
in tho numbcr of strikers in the Paris
district to-day when the Laundry
Workers' Union declared a strike in
Paris and tho suburbs. Transit facil
ities, however, were improved over yes?
terday and a greater number of sub
way trains wero running. Tho subway
stations are still guarded by soldiers.
M. Colliard, the Minister of Labor,
has summoned to Paris the directors
of the mines in tho Pas de Calais dis?
trict and delegates of the miners for
a joint meeting.
The managing committee of tho
General Labor Federation will meet to
night to consider the strike situation,
in which, it should be remarked, the
Federation had no hand.
The Chamber of Deputies adopted an
order of tho day declaring that it re
lied on the government to settle the
strike of sugar refinery workers and
to guarantee a .supply of sugar, par
ticularly for famiiy consumption. The
motion was mado by Deputy Poirier
de Narcayniftcr the situation had been
explained by Victor Boret, the Food
Minister.
The Minister said that he had had
conferences with the managers and the
workmen at the sugar refineries. He
said there was some shortage of sugar,
which was hampering the negotiations,
and that measures had been taken to
import 130,000 tons. A local strike
on the Reunion Islands had prevented
the loading of sugar for tho refineries.
The Minister ssid if it was necessary
he would resort to requisition.
Labor Radicals in
Britain Are Losing
Action of Parliamentary
Leaders Shows Spirit
of Co-operation Gains
New York Tribune
European Bureau
(Capyrtijht. 1919, New Turk Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, June 5.?The decision of
the Parliamentary Labor leaders tc
accept Bonar Law's proposals, thus re
pudiating the resolutions adopted at
Southport, is another proof that Brit?
ain is blessed with moderates among
the representatives of tho workinp:
class. Only the extremists, and the>
a comparatively small body, cxpress
dissatisfaction with tho leaders' ac
tion. The Southport conference de?
manded:
First?Wlthdrawal of troops from
Russia.
Second?Abolition of conscription.
Third?Raising of the blockade,
Fourth?Release of conscientious ob
jectors.
The government concesslon3 have
not been announced to date, but the
fact that Parliamentary leaders have
considered them satisfactory is indica
tive of their liberality. Industrial
conditions are far from good, but sane
labor leaders are determined that
whatever changes are brought about
must come by constitutional methods.
As long as a million or more remain
idle, Britain cannot help feeling
anxious, but as long as labor shows
the reasonableness of its desire for
work, orderly anxiety i3 unlikely to
grow into alarm.
Frank A. Vanderlip's report on the
British industrial situation is consid?
ered to exaggerate the proportion of
extreme radicals when he puts the
number at 10 per cent. Other investi
gators figure it at less than 5 per cent.
The dischargcd soldiers' federation,
which is not a real labor organization,
favors a radical policy and increases
materially the number of extremists,
but the government is meeting opposi- ?
tion by liberal concession and discon- j
tcnt is not deep rooted,
Police Vote on Strike
The latest cloud on the labor horizon
is the police union which is now bal
loting to strike. Having intimated its
willingness to grant liberal conces
6ions, tho government is in a strong
position in case the police strike. The
labor leaders aro playing for a big
stake. Their campaign is a combina?
tion of industrial betterment and po?
litieal power and they are Batisfied
to move slowly.
The very fact that they aspire to
ultimate power makes them anxious to
preserve the machinery of government.
They appreciate that extreme radical
ism of the Bolshevist order might
carry them into power sooner, but the
chances of failure are many and fail?
ure would mean their complete repudi
ation in the eyes of all classes, in?
cluding their own.
The employers are working with the
employes and tho union is growing
daily.
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Troops in Street Fight
Police Fire Over Heads of Com
batants, Ending Trouble
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., June 5.?
Soldiers of the 22d Infantry and ne?
groes of this town were opponcnts in a
street fight here to-day that thrcatened
to develop into a race riot. Tlie inter
vention of the police, who fired over
the heads of the combatants, prevented
more serious trouble.
About flfty soldiers, most of them
from tho South, attended a street car
nival here and were asked to leave by
the police. After being ejected they
started back to caran through tho negro
district, where troublo began at once.
Several shots were fired,- but no onc
was hit.
The police arrested two men, Private
j Charles Case, who was fined $23, and
i Privato William Munis, who was fined
I $15.
Street Railway Board Named
j President Appointg Cormnission.
to Investigate ProMems ?
WARHIXGTON, Juno n.?Appoint
j ment by President Wilson of the Fed
j oral electric railways commission to in
i vestigate and find a Bolution of the
I street railway problem throu^hout the
country was announced to-day by Sec?
retary Redfield.
Composing the commission are: Ed
win F. Sweet, assistant Secretary of
Commerce; Royal Meeker, Commis..
sioner of Labor Statistics, Pepartment
of Labor; Louis B. Wchle, general
counsel finance corporation; Charles E.
j Elmquist, president National A?socis
) tion of Street Railway and Utilities '
| Commissioners; Charles W. Reail,
; tho Investment Bankers' Association; "
Philip II. Gadsden, American Kleciric
? Railway Association, and William D.
I Mahon, Amalgamatod Association of
| Street and Electric Railway Employes.ui
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