ILLEGAL STRIKES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 9

ILLEGAL STRIKES

LEADER WARNED

WO TOLERATION IN ONTARIO

SHOW-DOWN AT START

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TORONTO, April 9,

The Premier of Ontario, Mr.'Mitchell Hepburn, has issued a warning that Ontario will not tolerate, the chaos and near-anarchy that the chairman of the Committee for industrial Organisation, Mr. John L. Lewis,, has caused in the .United States of America. - - Mr.-Hepburn said that the first open attempt was being made by the Committee, for Industrial. Organisation to dominate and dictate to Canadian industry. ■■■■■;' "We'believe the. time for a showdown is at the start," he declared. "There;,will- be no illegal sit-down strikes or picketing, and persons desiring to resume work will be adequately protected. The- entire resources of the province will be ■ utilised if occasion warrants.".

A Montreal cable on March 31 stated that the drive in the steel industry by the Committee for Industrial Organisation had officially invaded Quebec, where the committee announced the organisation of -.the first local' branch of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, arid Tin Workers of North America, affiliated with the Canadian Trades and Labour : Congress. A provincial, sub-section, of the. C.1.0. was to beplanned, and also a further drive in the textile industry. The John,l*. Lewis group had agreed to restrict its activities to the steel and-textile industries ■on ■ condition that the craft unions did not interfere. ;: It was learned that, more than: twenty, steel local organisations of the, C.1.0. had been formed in Ontario. ■."-.: '