THE CANADIAN STRIKE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 197, 6 August 1919, Page 7

THE CANADIAN STRIKE.

AN INGLORIOUS TERMINATION. THOUSANDS LOSE POSITIONS. Vancouver, July 5. Tiv gre.it. strike, which involved pr.u.t-'raily every nt ‘tuber of organis it 1.-tbour in I anada. has come to .-.a ’h.-.o: t<-ruiittatu>p. the mter- ■.< ni.on 01 ti<f uii.na’y having liter .li.i i in.!;, d tl.r- i.iot ement. which .... 1 ■•r-e-i ■ ah’.ate.l on Mi\ 15rh .n Vi iijiipeg. and spread a!i over the i.in. of (.'amtr].:. Vuuroiivir " s t!i>- l.i-t t y capitulate. With th.1 i-\ -i-pti.-Ti -it . .taming collective barI g-tirtrig. t }:-• gn at Ji.as.s of strikers Is-.-.nt 1 no otner advantage. hi W unpeg atone. <1 large number I •>!’ t a-'- p'.-ta: . ntployers. who walked | mil. were unable to obtain reinstate. ! meta, v htch was one or the points |'i ’ruanileil by ia'oottr all over the ! i- i.iiitry. In i'arlianietit it was ex- ! plained th:>t it would b? ridiculous ini' the ?.d mi:, Ist ration to agree to

1 , :1 .■ iii.^tat e lee postal strikers, as siii'itld they do so they would ne 1 t.i.iuti-d w.tii bb.itiing, as tiie Cenli.n .. trirtmg, Co:> :u'.t O’e v. as pr.v.t:,ing in the eatly stag s of the strike. With ti.: suike at. an end, there were over .v.-W workers unable to init.iiii their old jobs, which they nri l deserted when the call for a general strike came from the labour leaders in Winnipeg. This was the experrenve in many other Canadian cit ics. With martial law declared in Winnipeg, and the arrest of several prominent ollicials of the strike exccutiie. the crippling feature of the strike bigan gradually tn lose itself, and there was a disposition of the strikers to return to work. Some ol

the unions dribbled back to their places of work, but a vast nunnber of the strikers were unable to get reinstated, as their places had been filled by volunteers, some of whom were r< turned soldiers. lor the most part, the ’‘scabs'’ were not >e. ■•railed from the ranks of the former soldiers, a fact that afforded eoiisiiicrable solace to the disgruntled strikers. hi the ease of tramway workers, praeiicitlly every employee was plated back at work throughout Canada. '’ie principal discrimination ■ i.-'.-uiTtiig- in the ease of factories, ami where but a limited number of lin n were employed in small conI eerns. When work was resumed .u

1 toe various shipyards of Canaoti only a small! percentage of the strikers were allowed to resume their former employment, and it win be at least two months er<- work is in fuil swing at these centres of in thistry in the East and West. In Vancouver, the city which played second fiiidle only to Winm- ] p g. the strike crippled the city for i a month, all work r,n the waterl front, be ing literally at a standstill, I except for trivial work performed I iiy a number of boys. In this city | the tramway workers went out on i strike, being backed strongly by the I t lephone employees, mostly women I workers, who were ordered out as

j the Council permuted jitneys to run lin violation of the law. To a great J extent these jitneys nullified tbe ' strike of the tramway men. ami i. was through this that the ’phone giris I "i re called out by the Cent lal Strike , C iminitt-’c. as ti protest against the ' City Fathers tolerating the jitneys j scabbing" on the street carmen. 1 By a vote of two to one the strik- ; ing earmen wint back to work, and . the telephon - company refused to reinstate the ’phone girls in their entirety, as they had, secured the .■is'istancc of outsiders, who, howr. ier. were .novices. and gave a wrcteln <1 service. To use an Arneric'uiism. the ’phone gtris were stung," and. as a result, the carmen were the subject of widespread dcniiiieiation. WILL AWAIT ELECTION.

After witnessing the attitnile of t’l? niiiit iry, particularly the Royal .X nr:!i west Mounted Police who were it- ionsiy ti -s'j ibed as ’Borden s (’•issacks" and "Tile Huns." the -itikers ft .•:<! -;l ;<» r< turn to w t tk where-.they con’d n cure r.-in-s'.aienicnt aid rest d content that th. v had w.,n tit.- right to .-oli.-riive bni-xvini’ig. a condition that had In i'ii recogiiist d in Great Britain for thlr:y y.-ars. The strikers iiin.v dee’er-- licit th--y will perfect their orv-i:i.Xatio:i. and will .-xpre.-s thetn--ec.is v.he-i th-- uinet'al election arrives. The dale of this is Believed to ’>•<• l:e.-r band, and t lie Lite st’ik'is ate convinced that when the i t s are Co-anted up th - present Govefunn-nt- will discover th.-s, it !..:- lieen ignonUßOu.-dy defeated.