Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week a blue sedan, with four detectives aboard, sped down a highway toward the Quebec town of Asbestos (pop. 8,500). A heavy truck pulled across the road and the sedan screamed to a skidding stop. A mob of striking asbestos workers sprang from roadside ditches and hedges. They ignored warning police shots, charged in, beat the detectives with lengths of pipe, chair legs and homemade clubs. For the first time in its three months' strike (TIME, Feb. 28), the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor had turned from its policy of nonviolence...
...days later the Riot Act was rescinded; at week's end, peace of a kind still reigned in Asbestos. But the strike had caused reverberations far beyond Asbestos; it had set off a crisis between church & state in Quebec...
When the strike started, Premier Maurice Duplessis' Quebec government called it illegal, told the men to go back to work and submit their demands to arbitration. At first the church kept silent, but a fortnight ago the Quebec Bishops' Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies called on all Catholics, in the name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week...
...election, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 67, the courtly onetime Quebec corporation lawyer, would head the Liberals. As a party leader, he had already given a good account of himself in Parliament, had proved adept in the rough & tumble of political infighting. Moreover, he had won the admiration of his followers. Toward him they felt an almost paternal protectiveness. "We've got to win this one for Uncle Louis," they said...
...worry. For 43 days, he and Progressive Conservative Leader George Drew had been wrestling over every issue. Tories and Liberals, with an eye to this year's election, had been swinging at each other at every opportunity. Would Drew oppose the pact, and thereby harvest votes in isolationist Quebec...