An extract from minutes of Council on May 13, 1918, specifically that of the report delivered by A.W. Puttee, Chairman of the Special Committee on Strike Settlement after having been amended to prevent civic employees from being able to strike.
Annual report of the Department of Health for the year 1919. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases (including the “Spanish Influenza” or “Spanish Flu” outbreak), inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.
Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare
A letter from J.G. Glassco, Manager of the City Light and Power Department, to the Committee on Finance, recommending that overtime be paid to those who continued to work during the strike.
A letter from M. Peterson, Secretary of the Committee on Finance, to the Committee on Fire, Water, Light, and Power, regarding overtime being paid to City Light and Power Department workers who did not go on strike.
A letter from M. Peterson, Secretary of the Committee on Finance, to J.G. Glassco, Manager of the City Light and Power Department, agreeing with his recommendation that workers who stayed on after the strike began on May 15 be paid overtime.
A job application to the Accounting Department from Rose Jeffires, submitted during the General Strike. The oath forbidding employees from engaging in strike action - the Slave Pact - is featured prominently.
A letter from C.J. Brown, City Clerk, to Committee on Finance, informing it that the Committee on Fire, Water, Light, and Power has agreed that City Light and Power Department employees who did not go on strike be paid overtime.
A letter from Donald MacPherson, Chief of Police, to the Board of Police Commissioners, informing that the Policemen’s Union had pledged to work to uphold law and order during the General Strike.
A letter from A.K. Godfrey, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Citizen's Committee of One Thousand to the City Clerk's Office containing resolutions passed by the Citizens' Committee on May 24, asking that said resolutions be shared with City Council.
Several pages from a bound volume of the minutes of the Board of Police Commissioners between 23 May and 26 June 1919 (page 80: May 23; page 88: May 29; pages 115-116: June 9; pages 125-126: June 11; page 155: June 25; page 156: June 26). Some of the pages have copies of other records pasted to them from other dates. The pages are excerpts and, as a result, some pages contain information that is either continued from the previous page or continues on the next, but is not included. These excerpts were selected by the Winnipeg Police Museum and deal primarily with staffing during the General Strike, including the dismissal of and reinstatement of employees, and the Slave Pact loyalty pledge.
A letter from A.K. Godfrey, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Citizen's Committee of One Thousand to the City Clerk's Office containing resolutions passed by the Citizens' Committee on May 24, asking that said resolutions be shared with City Council.
A letter from M. Peterson, Secretary of the Committee on Finance, to J.G. Glassco, Manager of City Light and Power Department, informing him that he may pay overtime to employees that continued to work during the strike.
A letter from the M. Peterson, Secretary of the Committee on Finance, to W.H. Evanson, City Comptroller, informing him that it was decided that City employees who continued to work during the strike will be paid overtime.
A letter from J.H. Blackwood, Secretary of the Public Parks Board, to Arthur Dickson, informing him that the General Strike has made it difficult to give him advanced notice about interment at Brookside Cemetery.
A letter from J.H. Blackwood, Secretary of the Public Parks Board, to W. Travers Sweatman, member of the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand, appraising him of the former’s request for better policing in City parks.
A job application to the Survey Department from James Burnett Scott, submitted during the General Strike. The oath forbidding employees from engaging in strike action - the Slave Pact - is featured prominently.