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Show Armed Conspiracy Had Been Planned j In Winnipeg, Canada WINNIPEG, Man. Aug 5-R. E Bray a returned soldier and Winntpeg Strike leader on trial here for conspiracy conspir-acy . declared that he had a fully or -Igan.zed band of 3.000 to 4,000 "men ready to take up arms at a given s.c-nal s.c-nal on June 10. last, according to testimony tes-timony offered In court toduv bv l',o-Active l',o-Active W. H. McLuughlan of the Aorthwes' mounted police. , MeLaughlan. a plain clothes man assigned to follow the .strike. was )n :the contidence of several labor lead-era. lead-era. His testimony in part follows-In follows-In course of my conversation with Hray he stated this affair was goinir to end in a fight and when I lamented lament-ed the fact that we had no guns, Brav said: Don't worry about guns- we'll have them. We got between ' three jand four Thousand men readv and instructed in-structed to be in certain places when the alarm is sounded and they will get into citizens cars which are to Carry the militia to Minto barracks , pass themselves off as militiamen un-: 1 they ct inside the barracks Cet 1 real soldiers and seize the barracks " 00 . |