CANADIAN SHIPPING STRIKE
GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS ACCEPTED BY UNION (Rec. 9 p.m.) OTTAWA, June 13. The Canadian Seamen’s z Union has accepted new Government proposals for the settlement of the 18-days-old Great Lakes shipping strike, but the owners withheld their decision pending a meeting in Toronto on June 17. The proposals provided for immediate application to the National War Labour Board by all shipping comS antes for an eight-hour day instead of xe present 12-nour shift, the re-em-ployment of all strikers except those facing charges under the criminal code, and recognition of the union by all companies in which the Labour Department found that a majority of the employees were union members.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 7
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111CANADIAN SHIPPING STRIKE Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 7
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