STRIKE IN MONTREAL
POLICEMEN & FIREMEN
WITH PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEES.
UNION RECOGNITION DEMAND
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)
(Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) MONTREAL, December 14.
Demanding union recognition, police, firemen and public works employees began a strike this morning. The police chiefs announced that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Quebec Provincial Police and the Civilian Protection Committee A.R.P. men had taken over the police patrol of the city. At the Public Works Department, skeleton crews are standing by attending to the city’s water supply.
Civic officials offered a compromise, including recognition of the Canadian Congress of Labour Unions as the union of the public works employees, but insisted on no more than a “house” union for the police and firemen, and alternatively wage increases, but the compromise was rejected. The public works employees struck in sympathy, many leaving their work of removing the city’s first heavy snowfall this winter. Policemen left their beats and firemen left their stations to attend a labour rally. Some fire stations have been taken over by the Army.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 4
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172STRIKE IN MONTREAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 4
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