STRIKES AT MONTREAL
POLICE AND FIREMEN INCLUDED
MONTREAL, December 14. Demanding union recognition, police. firemen, and public works employees began a strike this morning. Police Chiefs announced that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Quebec Provincial Police and Civilian Protection Committee had taken over 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 ox Labour Unions as a union of public works employees, but insistea no more than a house union for police and firemen, alternatively wage increases, but the compromise was rejected. Public Works employees struck in sympathv. 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 I fire 1 stations have been taken over jby the Army.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 December 1943, Page 5
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