 The situation was still unsettled after Greenfield became premier in autumn 1921 . Greenfield was at a loss as to how to respond to this crisis , complaining that both employees and employers were the most difficult people in the province to deal with and that they showed " very little spirit of compromise " . He tried to be balanced in his approach to this labour @-@ employer friction but was not aided by his own Minister of Public Works , Labour MLA Alex Ross , who took the side of the miners and objected to the government 's provision of police escorts for strikebreakers . Though the problems originated before Greenfield took office , many Albertans felt that a stronger leader might have been more successful than Greenfield in achieving industrial peace . 
