Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that ply the Great Lakes. The issue: an eight instead of a twelve-hour day. The union claimed that on about half the 153 lake ships, striking crews had walked out. Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed the ship to the lock. The canal was blocked for 24 hours, longest delay in its history, before a Government tug could move the Goderich...
Scabs & Stalemate. Wherever possible, owners sailed their ships with non-union crews, claimed that only a score or so were strikebound. In anti-union Montreal, some 200 non-union men, mostly veterans and husky high-school graduates, were recruited to sail the ships...
...Montreal's teeming Hochelaga tenement district last week, five moppets played cops & robbers in an alley behind a branch of the Banque Canadienne Nationale. Suddenly a man with a gun in his hand came tearing out of the bank, pursued by a yelling clerk. This was the real thing...
...there was no end to strikes. British Columbia's 37,000 still striking wood-workers were joined by 700 seamen of the Canada Steamship Lines. They struck when the City of Montreal sailed with a non-union crew. Slated for June 3 is a strike by some 4,000 other members of the A.F.L. Canadian Seamen's Union, who want an eight-hour day. (Present working day: 12 hours.) Ready to go out also were 6,000 A.F.L. textile workers in Quebec. Only the last-minute appointment of an inquiry commissioner averted a walkout by 10,000 C.I.O...
...eastern Ontario 2,000 dairy farmers, representing 40,000 producers, threatened to call a milk strike on June 15 if their prices were not raised $3 per 100 lbs. There was only one note of cheer. The two-month-old strike of 400 National Brewery employes in Montreal finally ended last week. The strikers went back to work, though they had been granted none of their demands...