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INDUSTRIAL UNREST IN CANADA PRIME MINISTER RETURNING (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, Aug. 23. Mr Mackenzie King is returning from Paris next week to cope with the grave industrial situation involving 40,000 strikers throughout Canada affecting steel, rubber, electrical, automobile, textile, mining and chemical industries, of which a majority of the C. 1.0. is demanding increases of 15 to 25 cents an hour.
Meanwhile Parliament has adopted the Investigating Committee’s report recommending sterner action against both labour and management wlien legal machinery for adjusting disputes is disregarded.
The report also urged firmer price control and closer relationship of wage control therewith and a national labour code.
The committee placed responsibility on the Government for settling the steel strike.
While a heavy vote in the House of Commons supported the report, speakers unhesitatingly criticised the Government for lack of policy, thereby underlining the Prime Minister’s return to meet the industrial emergency.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 268, 24 August 1946, Page 5
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