Lumber Workers On Strike
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) VANCOUVER, July 4 Thirty-four thousand workers in the coastal forests of British Columbia will go on strike tomorrow morning. The lumber industry, a 500 million dollar-a-year business, provides more than half the province’s annual income. Other strikes and threatened strikes may leave another 41.001 more workers idle in British Columbia in what observers say would be the worst year in the province’s labour history. British Columbia’s second biggest industry—salmon fishing—has been crippled by a strike for more than a week. Also threatening is a strike of 17,000 civil servants which will be the first strike of civil servants in Canada at a major level of government.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28321, 5 July 1957, Page 7
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