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...Seamen's Union called out 5,000 members manning the ships 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...
...imposed for the sole benefit of Page-Hersey Tubes, Ltd., of Welland...
...even smelled of politics. Welland, site of the Page-Hersey factory, is a politically important riding represented in Parliament by Canada's Labor Minister, bumptious Humphrey Mitchell...
...North Carolina's engineering school before skipping off to a Pittsburgh construction job. Within a year he was marked by his passion for tunnels. He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal. There he acquired more know-how, and a small, vivacious wife named Helen Daniels...
Thus, total planned cost of power-seaway project is $579,000,000. Of this, Canada is to pay $277,000,000 (including credit of $133,000,000 for completed Welland Canal around Niagara Falls); the U.S. $302,000,000 (including credit of $17,000,000). Canada's cautious Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wangled a good deal: her part of the work need not be completed before 1949; if war costs are too high, she can take even longer. Thus, if the U.S. wants the project now, she must foot all the bills, at least temporarily...