--- title: Winnipeg Telegram, Extra, front page, 9 June 1919 (Winnipeg General Strike) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/winnipeg-telegram-police-force-fired-1919/ description: Extra edition under a banner reading 'POLICE FORCE FIRED', with a column headed 'An Appeal to the Striking Soldier'. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Anti-strike newspaper front page of 1919 calling strike leaders 'traitors' and linking the strike to 'Bolshevism'; also an 'Alien Act' headline. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Winnipeg Telegram, Extra, front page, 9 June 1919 (Winnipeg General Strike)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/winnipeg-telegram-police-force-fired-1919.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/winnipeg-telegram-police-force-fired-1919.png) # Winnipeg Telegram, Extra, front page, 9 June 1919 (Winnipeg General Strike) Extra edition under a banner reading 'POLICE FORCE FIRED', with a column headed 'An Appeal to the Striking Soldier'. The appeal tells returned soldiers that their strike is read by 'the vast majority of citizens of Winnipeg' as sympathy with 'Bolshevism' and with 'traitors'. Tells: loaded labels for the strike leadership and a majority-opinion claim standing in for argument. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` KETCHEN ASKS SOLDIERS TO STAND TOGETHER EXTRA Winnipeg Telegram LAST EDITION WESTERN CANADA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER 26TH YEAR WINNIPEG, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1919 NUMBER 10[illegible] POLICE FORCE FIRED Instruct Civic Heads to Employ Permanent Men All Employes Must Sign Loyalty Contract With City and Must Agree Not to Take Part in Sympathetic Strike - Work of Volunteer Force Drives Praised by Aldermen [body text illegible] An Appeal to the Striking Soldier Soldiers who fought for your country; soldiers who fought for democracy; soldiers who fought for liberty; soldiers who fought for the defense and protection of women and children, but who are now engaged in the general strike, return to your true position in this community and dispel the confusion in the public mind that you have any sympathy with Bolshevism, any sympathy with revolution, or any sympathy with the traitors who are attempting to overthrow the very institutions in the defense of which you risked your lives. You say that you are fighting for a principle today - and you must believe it or you would not say it. You say that you are fighting for a fair living wage, for the right of collective bargaining and for the restoration of all strikers to their former positions. This may be your belief, this may be your convictions - but it is the belief of the vast majority of citizens of Winnipeg, of the vast majority of all returned soldiers, that whatever your intentions, the effect of your present attitude is to [remaining text illegible] Police Commission Acts When Force Demands That Ultimatum Be Cancelled [body text illegible] FRIDAY, 13TH FATEFUL DAY PEACE PARLEY Asks Veterans Not to Allow Any Wedge Between Them URGES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PASS ALIEN ACT Canadians In Honors List MEXICO IGNORES LEAGUE OF NATIONS STREET CARMEN ISSUE DEMANDS IN TORONTO McCullough to Hang on Friday CAR SERVICE TO BE DEMANDED Adriatic Arrives, 78th On Board; Western Men Leave ``` Masthead, headlines and the opening paragraphs of the soldier appeal are legible; smaller body columns are not at this scan resolution and are marked [illegible]. Issue number partly unreadable. Spelling and punctuation as printed except that hyphens stand in for the printer's dashes. [← The Bombay Chronicle, 15 April 1919, page 7: Amritsar and Lahore riots communique, Haque resignation, "Satyagrahi"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bombay-chronicle-rowlatt-satyagrahi-1919/) [Deutsche Zeitung, "Rache!" (Revenge!), morning edition, 28 June 1919 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deutsche-zeitung-rache-1919/) ## Using the same techniques - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)