MONTREAL STRIKE

Grey River Argus, 15 August 1944, Page 5

MONTREAL STRIKE

GOVERNMENT SEIZES THE TRAMS fAus. &■ N.Z. Press Assn.] (Rec. 10.10) MONTREAL, Aug. 13. Four thousand tram workers have been eleven days on strike here. The Government of Canada, acting under the War Measures Act, has assumed direction of the Montreal Tramways Company. It has ordered the four thousand strikers to return to work to-morrow or to face the conseouences. The Minister of Labour, Mr Mitchell, said the issue of the strike was not sufficiently important to warrant a strike in war time. He stated two Government controllers) will now direct the tram system for sixty days, unless the -union .and the management reach an agreement during ' that period. The company’s officials have promised their full cooperation. The union leaders have ordered the men to report for work after their eleven days’ idleness.