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Show WINNIPEG STRIKE If BEJHDKEN Developments Lead to the Hope for Adjustment of Labor Difficulties. WINNIPEG, Man., May 20. Important developments bearing upon the general strike situation in Winnipeg came to the surface In rapid succession today. Although Al-though the deadlock between labor and Industrial employers will enter into na fifth night without a decision, there were many signs that the marking time period was rapidly coming to an end. Gideon Robertson, minister of labor for the dominion; Arthur Meighen, federal minister of the interior: T. C. Norrls, premier pre-mier of Manitoba; Thomas H. Johnson, provincial attorney genera, and Mayor Charles F. Gray all became prominently and publicly Identified with the effort to bring'abouf peace by adjustmen:. Ministers Robertson and Meighen are reported lo be traveling to Winnipeg from Ottawa. Premier Norris and the attorney at-torney general conferred with a delegation delega-tion from the central strike committee, and Mayor Gray, prior to a conference with a labor delegation, addressed a -special meeting of the common council on the strike, tituat ion. The leading strike development came in tne form of con .'C fences between union delegations and Premier Norris and oll'.rr offlcials r-garding the announced wil'ing-ncss wil'ing-ncss of the union men Lo di:-cu.ss -:t!c-mcnt of the strike on the basis of general gen-eral union recognition anj reinstatement i of all idle mcmacrs v. .-.0 were employed prior lo the general -strike. The question of rrCpslating all former I u-iion 10-11 ir- being d sii,m'I at luee:-(iic-s apart from too titration of union re-ognilion. .,,,, Ma-.n- Grav to.d tie council t.iat a .n-" ,". pa t ion of cirr-umIani eb -3d been r.-cor,---.:- In' a inisut'li iiT-.nr.-sp.n tW.:s..uiit Wnsiiifwa ,- ---arcing :he city a : t i t -jiic ti.v.ar-i : u'ii.;i fore--;. ii.e ma-,cr pai'l l h; t when Ibe g--rii-ral strike -.r-M r. -hired he ca e 111 c-'iiral .-;r:le .-.ei.ri:!-. Lo 'ii.'ii-Miii'l lha- !;. an. I order muf! be maintained and na: no I s;:'e:;ng from la-;-, ot iwl fnvild take J '"''The re-citt was. Mayor '.ray f.t'.-. (Continued on Psge 2, Column 1.) PEG SHE IWttY BE BBDKEH (Continued from Page One.) iiat cards were prepared for union drives driv-es of bread and milk wagons and the Movement of these commodities was ap-i ap-i roved by the union men. The drivers acked the cards to their wagons and au-omobiles, au-omobiles, instead of keeping them for iresentation if the vehicles were stopped. .Mayor Gray told the council this af-ernoon af-ernoon that the central strike comin it-re it-re should be notified that public dis-iay dis-iay of such cards must be stopped im-nediateiy im-nediateiy and that if the order was not omplied with the city would use "every .va liable means" to have foodstuffs de-ivered. de-ivered. Mayor Gray received a communication rom Premier Norris today regarding hLe placards. The premier protested gainst them and said he would not Lake-urther Lake-urther steps toward mediation until the ractice was stopped. Whether Ministers Robertson and Jeighen, who are expected here on i'hursday, have a plan to lend federal .id to any industrial readjustment here ias not been announced. Various reports that dominion sol-iiers sol-iiers mobilized here would be ordered to atrol the city kept large crowds moving hrough the downtown districts. J.,ate in lie afternoon, when automobiles speeded lung the main streets with soldiers ar-i ar-i v in? from France, a report quickly pread that martial law had been de-iinvd. de-iinvd. The incident was soon undertook, under-took, however. VANCODTR. B. C, May 20. Special i iu"1 t'.-hos eceied here from Winnipeg : .lay said restaurants and grocery stores j f Winnipeg were closing down because he genera! strike lias made it impossible jr 'them to obtain food to. soil. The-afoiine The-afoiine supply in Winnipeg and vicinity ; t;aid to be down to the last 50,000 ga!-uifs. ga!-uifs. after week-end sales of approxl-jat'j'y approxl-jat'j'y luu.OOO gallons. OTTAWA. May "0. Gideon Robertson, anadian ininiiter of labor, and Arthur f i .v 1 1 -n, tviin'Ster of interior, who have 1 tor Winnipeg, are not clothed with i'1 i.owers to deal with Ihe ttrike sit-ation. sit-ation. but have gone merely in the role . mediators, it was announced tonight. M 3'ild disturbances occur, however, en-;j en-;j ngering the 1 ives of citizens, t he gov-:'nmeni gov-:'nmeni would intervene, it was as-?i-tcd. |
