CANADIAN STEEL WORKERS
—— * ACTION AGAINST COMPANIES 7000 EMPLOYEES to GO ON HOLIDAY .. ■ i . (Received April 30, -7 p.m.) . . MONTREAL, April 29., Work holidays affecting 7000 employees in Canadian defence industries were; ordered by the Steel Workers’ Organising Committee to-day in protest against alleged company violations of the Board of Conciliation’s rulings.. The. holidays will affect two major steel, companies, in addition to the National Steel Can Corporation, Hamilton, and the Reck Rolling Mills, both of which are strike-bound. 1 Three thousand four hundred employees -of * the Algoma Steel Mills, Ontario, will begin their holiday at midnightvon Friday. Three thousand; five -hundred employees of the Dominion Steel take the'holiday and workers elsewhere will follow-lull- t’-T-' .■■ ■ ■■ |Tbe holidays were’ ordered a few hpurs'after the Prime Minister (Mr W. li' Mackenzle King) banned labour de-bktea>-i»- the House of. Commons on the .ground that: ihejigive - this dispute significance in the^enemy's'.'eyes.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23317, 1 May 1941, Page 8
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