Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 3 | 1500 Strike in Calgary

1300 Strike in Calgary. CALGARY, Alberta. May 26. Onlv loOO workers were aald to have answered the general strike call hero today, tho men representing: the postal workers. Dominion Do-minion express employees, flour and cereal employees and the Canadian Pacific Pa-cific railway men at the shops and roundhouse. By a vote of 119 to 4S the street railway men refused to quit work. Other unions which have signified their intention of remaining at work are the railway clerks, bakers, city hall employees, em-ployees, teamsters, outside civic employees em-ployees and barbers. As Calgary is the distribution center for the whole of the province in the matter mat-ter of remittances for relatives of soldiers, sol-diers, it is paid that thousands of remittances re-mittances will bo held up by the strike of the postal employees. Today's walkout walk-out was orderly and quiet. Eight thousand miners in district No. IS struck Saturday afternoon. That city's mine at Leth-bridge Leth-bridge was reported to be still operating, operat-ing, returned soldiers there refusing to strike. Federated trades which, have not made known their decision In regard to the strike call Include printers, printing pressmen, press-men, Stereotype rs, typos, bricklayers and masons, carpenters, sheet metal workers, commercial telegraphers, broker house workers, freight handlers, moving picture operators, pi umbers and steam fitters.