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...Canada at week's end, there was but one real strike-at St. Jerome, Quebec, where 800 rubber workers walked out of the Dominion Rubber Company plant in a jurisdictional squabble between the Synthetic Rubber Workers Union and the International Rubber Workers of America. The 800 strikers were .032% of Canada's 2,488,000 potential strikers...
...Sydney, Nova Scotia, which comes closer to being Canada's Pittsburgh than any other Dominion city, newsmen asked a unionist to explain Canada's labor peace. George Regunnis McNeil, president of a 5,000-man steelworkers union, answered: "The whole thing in a nutshell is that American labor was organized on a national scale to a point where it could strike for what it wanted. ... In Canada strikes pop up here & there, but there is no national cooperation...
...takes pride in the past but worries about the future. His labor law is strictly a wartime measure; control of labor will soon revert to the nine provinces. Then it will be up to the provincial governments to adopt labor codes as effective as the wartime law-else the Dominion will return to the prewar system of diverse, impotent labor legislation...
Never before had it been so easy to count Canadian noses-ration books showed how many were eating, Dominion employment offices how many were working, Dominion rental bureaus who was living where. The Statistics Bureau decided that it could make an informed guess without waiting for 1951's door-to-door canvass...
Obviously, said Brebner, the Dominion's postwar planners need to do some hard thinking about making Canada a place where Canadians want to stay. But what...