Everything prepared the public mind.

A barrage of propaganda had been set up--and kept up.

Legitimate Trades Unionism itself in Britain had subscribed to The Aims
of Labour put forth by Arthur Henderson, who foreshadowed barricades
and bayonets in London streets if the proletariat did not get their
"rights".

Canada did not surely escape. We had the Winnipeg flare-up, which was
watched by legitimate labour across the border. The A.F.L. was
challenged for authority in this country. It came to the peculiar
pass, that in order to maintain the solidarity of Canada as constituted
by Government under the Old Flag, the legitimate leaders of labour had
to fall back upon the one continental organization which makes
brotherhoods, not across the seas, nor so much across Canada, but
across the border.

It was Ontario's opportunity; the steady old Province of some bigotry,
great industry, many labour unions, and more or less fixed ideas
regarding the function of Government. The office of Tom Moore is in
Ottawa. There the President of the Trades and Labour Congress is in
close touch with the Labour Department, with the _Labour Gazette_, with
the Government in Council. We shall never know just how much of the
steady conservatism of Moore at the first Congress following the
Winnipeg strike, as well as at other Congresses later, was developed
and held steady by association with Government.

But whether or no, even though it was nothing but loyalty to the
established brotherhoods of the A.F.L. or a deeper loyalty to his own
ideas of the case, the rock-steady influence of Tom Moore at the
conventions was the one biggest hope of the indirect action element
winning out. He was not opposed to Socialism. He has to work with
Socialists--of many sorts. The whole basic idea of the Federation of
Labour is a degree of Socialism. But it was the Marxian brand of
Socialism born in Germany and transplanted to Russia to which Moore was
opposed. He saw no field for this in Canada. He believed that Canada
had a right to freedom of action. At least if it came to a choice
between authority from the Gompers organization in the United States,
and the Lenine tyranny in Russia, the course was clear. Time and time
again he was bombarded and machine-gunned by the Red elements in
Congress and Convention. As often he solidly stood his ground, based
upon the older idea of labour getting its rights through negotiation
and later through the b