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Flames curled through a straw-and-cloth effigy hanging in the main square of normally sedate Saint John, New Brunswick. Hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the fire and to argue about the object of their anger: Kenneth Colin Irving, the richest man, the biggest landholder and the most contentious entrepreneur in Canada's Maritime Provinces...
...Irving last week was up to his bald crown in one of the longest labor disputes yet witnessed by economically depressed New Brunswick. It began 19 weeks ago, when 145 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union stomped out of Irving's $52 million Saint John refinery protesting that their hourly wages-$1.55 to $2.30-were 75? below the industry's average in Canada. The walkout has since spread westward to other parts of the Irving Oil Co. Labor views the Saint John strike as a battle of principle to extend standard industry wages...
...region, the public transit system in Saint John, 1,700,000 acres of woodlands, several mines, a steel fabricating plant, a shipyard, 16 tankers and 2,000 service stations that blazon the Irving name in red, white and blue from Newfoundland to Quebec. Almost everyone in New Brunswick has strong feelings-pro or con-about K. C. Irving. But he has so effectively walled himself from the public that few really know...
Many Canadians applaud Irving for having created more jobs in New Brunswick than all of Canada's many official pump-priming projects. His critics counter that he got labor cheap and has kept it cheap, that he takes no part in community activities and does not even permit his workers to make payroll contributions to the United Fund-it costs too much time for his clerks to figure out the deductions. Irving has also shown a knack for breaking strikes in the past. But even those who would like to take K. C. Irving down a peg realize that...
Bowdoin, located in Brunswick, Me, was Harvard's first opponent in the 1960 season. In an overtime contest, the Crimson edged the Polar Bears...