Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1919 — TROOPS AWE STRIKERS [ARTICLE]

TROOPS AWE STRIKERS

RETURNED CANADIAN SOLDI ERO IN CHARGE AT WINNIPEG. Pledge Aid to Uphold Low—Demand Alton* Bo Deported—Mayor Opona Food Depots. Winnipeg. Man.. Jane fl.—Mayor Gray twgau h wearing tn 2,000 returned soldiers as constables during the day to preserve law and order in Winnipeg. Riotlug at the city hail broke out as the veterans marched up to take the oath. Soldier strikers Jeered the antl-strlke soldiers, a score of flat tights started, and the police were hurried out on a riot call. With drawn truncheons they went through the crowd and dragged out eight combatants, both strikers aud prospective constables. Meanwhile Mayor Gray opened milk and bread depot* in the schools and fire stations, and school children took home the family supplies. The food committee summoned the strike committee to the city hull to resist the effort of the strike leaders to starve Winnipeg Into submission. The city took over the pasteurizing plants of the two largest dairies and operated them under full protection. Returned soldiers tilled the Auditorium rink at a great meeting to organize the force,of constables. Mayor Gray addressed the soldiers. The meeting then passed formal resolutions denouncing some of the strike leaders as anarchists and agents of revolution; demanded that the government bring the men responsible for the Winnipeg upheaval “to Justice;” urged the Immediate deportation of “all undesirable aliens.” and declared that the only one big union which Canadian soldiers would recognize was the “Union Jack.' Reports to the mayor from all parts of the city were that the radicals overnight had clamped on a program of terrorism far more extensive than they had before attempted. They directed It against the wives and children of anti-strikers. Indications of this were shown In the tone of the strike organ,, which dwelt on the “new temper*’’ that is manifesting itself. It said “vigorous aetlorf must be taken by labor to force the Issue,” and that was the keynote to the day’s developments. In the meantime the strikers were holding the largest parade they have yet held. About 4,000 were In line and they moved through the streets carrying banners. “Down With Profiteers and Up With the People."