Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-13 | Page 2 | Winnipeg Quiet; Street Car Service Still Holding Off

WINNIPEG QUIET; STREET CAR SERVICE STILL HOLDING OFF WINNIPEG, Mm, June 13. Senator Gideon K Robertson, federal minister of labor, arrived today, and it was inti-ma'ed inti-ma'ed at citizens' committee headquarters headquar-ters that he Is armed with wide authority in connection with the strike situation. Strike issues oeeuried a minor position posi-tion in the scheme of thinfrs today. T.-.e Leeinnii.K of the fifth week of Winnirwe's ceneral sympathetic strike was devoted to the celebration of the return of the i Seventy-eolith Grenadier battalion and too Twelfth field ambulance corp from the battlefields'of Fram-e. The chief concern of the rivlc authorities authori-ties is the resumption of street car service, serv-ice, paralvzed for more than four weeks. ltlTv.:ph "it had been definitely declared t.y Mav.ir Charles V. Gray and other officials offi-cials that cars would operate today. It was decided to postpone action until ways and means could be thoro ichly discussed. reward of $,"00 was offered for Information Infor-mation leartir.e to arrest and conviction j of persons who assaulted ( orpond Fred- j eriek i. ropplr.s. Victorta Cross hero. last Tuesday while on duty ns a special constable. "Ore hundred dollars will he paid tor conviction of any other person who threw missi.es dunr.c the r'.otintr. Union officials refused to comment on the teleprrams sent by H. B. Kussc.l. one of the strike lader. to Western Cana- . dian cities where strikes are in progress, to the effect that there was a possihilitv rf the railway brotherhoods striking soon."