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
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.
- Date
- June 9, 1919
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Winnipeg Telegram, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Borden Government
- Leader
- Robert Laird Borden
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- Techniques
- Name-callingBandwagon
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of the Winnipeg Telegram, 9 June 1919), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Canadian newspaper of 9 June 1919; Commons tags PD-US, PD-Canada)
Winnipeg Telegram, 9 June 1919, via Wikimedia Commons. Rights basis: published in Winnipeg before 1931; the Commons file page cites {{PD-US}} and {{PD-Canada}}.
Text on the object
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.
