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...work. In Australia, Pepsi-Cola Co. was spending $1,200,000 to buy and renovate two factories, and Borden Co. was planning a new milk-processing plant. In Canada, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. was developing the rich iron-ore deposits in the Ungava area of Northern Quebec and Labrador, a project that may cost $200 million. Automaker Henry J. Kaiser had landed a $2,500,000 contract with Israel to build an auto assembly plant in Haifa. In Latin America, considered an "undeveloped" area by Point Four planners, some of the biggest U.S. companies were hard...
...Catholic Church takes the position that Quebec's labor-baiting Premier Maurice Duplessis is not moving fast enough to liberalize provincial laws and raise living standards. The 90,000-member Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor, with church approval, defied the government last year when it supported a violent strike against the Quebec asbestos companies which the Duplessis regime declared illegal. The church's Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies has openly condemned provincial labor legislation; "labor priests" have acted as strike leaders. When Archbishop Charbonneau resigned "for reasons of health," the rumor persisted, despite official denial, that...
...Christians. Msgr. Léger, who had not been directly involved in the Quebec struggle, had a chance to bring about better church relations with Premier Duplessis. At the same time the church made it sharply clear that his appointment was in no way a repudiation of Charbonneau (who last week was made a Roman count and a special assistant to the Pope). In a 35,000-word pastoral letter, a summary of which was read last Sunday from Roman Catholic pulpits in the province, Quebec's bishops firmly restated the church's principles on labor. Echoing...
...loyal collaboration" to the civil authorities, but warned that it could not ally itself with any political party or regime. "Let us be on guard against the thought that religion lulls the worker," said the letter, "or that the church is the ally of the powerful." In Quebec's rapid drive toward industrialization, workers were not living well enough and wealth was not equitably divided. Said the letter: "If [employers] value their employees as men and as Christians ... if they pay just salaries and ceaselessly strive to improve working conditions . . . they will favor social peace and a new harmonious...
...Outlander, by Germaine Guevremont. What happens when a careless, high-spirited wanderer settles down in a tiny, pious farm hamlet in Quebec. Good regional writing with nature as a major character (TIME, March...