Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble between Mr. Ryan and British Royalty was over the question of longshoremen in Canada. I.L.A. has had unions at Halifax and St. John's, but not since 1903 has it had any organization at Montreal. The National Independent Longshoremen's Union handled Cunard White Star Line's loadings in Montreal...
With the rise of C.I.O., Mr. Ryan, a supporter of the A.F. of L., was fearful that the Independent Union would tie up with John L. Lewis. Hence his sudden edict: Cunard White Star must use I.L.A. men in Montreal or I.L.A. men would not serve its ships...
With the cream of its Coronation passenger crop aboard the Queen Mary, Cunard White Star acted quickly. A telephone call to Montreal, and Independent Union longshoremen were shooed off the Alaunia and the Andania loading there. Mr. Ryan called off his strike and within a few minutes 1,800 happy travelers were bound for the Coronation. Within two hours Independent Union men were back at work on the Alaunia and Andania, and I.L.A. was again out on strike in Manhattan. A serious strike was threatened with Cunard White Star (and also Furness-Withy Lines) caught between the millstones of warring...
...Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William and Port Arthur, they carried Minnesota and Saskatchewan wheat to Buffalo and Montreal. At Alpena and Calcite, Mich., they loaded limestone for Chicago and Buffalo...
...week. Route in summer will be from Ireland across the Atlantic to the big new airport near Botwood, Newfoundland (TIME, March 1), where it will split into two legs, one going straight down the coast to New York with a stop at Shediac, N. B., the other to Montreal and then down the Hudson Valley to New York. In winter the planes will fly via the Azores and Bermuda...