Word: oshawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appealing largely to farmers, Onion-Farmer Hepburn made the C. I. O. his campaign issue, was photographed visiting the Dionne quintuplets and boasted that his action at Oshawa had saved the Province from the terrorizing of "foreign agitators." That was good enough for Ontario...
Chief personal satisfactions to the chub-cheeked Premier were three: the defeat of handsome, dapper Earl Rowe, new Conservative leader, the victory of Gordon Conant, Hepburnite, at Oshawa-scene of last April's C. I. O. strike against General Motors, squashed by "Mitch"-and a Liberal victory in northern Ontario, stronghold of the C. I. O. mining unions...
After the Oshawa strike had lasted through 16 days of negotiation it ended in the workers winning a 44-hr, week with very slightly higher pay-and in a most curious agreement. Since neither their employers nor "Mitch" would treat with any workers affiliated however remotely with C. I. O., and since all the strike leaders by this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn...
...that the aim of C. I. O. in their province is not only to organize General Motors but is also directed toward C. I. O.-izing Ontario's rich mines. It was in defense of these, they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that C. I. O. agents be excluded from Canada as "foreign agitators," Ontario's Premier smells an opportunity to attract to himself nationwide support and contributions from...
William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...