Vancouver Tied Up by Strike
FREE LABOUR EMPLOYED United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. VANCOUVER, Juuc 5. A dramatic development in the longtlueatened dock strike to tie up the port of Vancouver occurred to-day, vdien the Shipping Federation declared all the union workers discharged, following their refusal to load newsprint on the s.s. An ten on the grounds that it had been bandied by non-union longshoremen at (he Powell River. obe provincial police manned the fix-hr. and a boatload of non-union men sinned loading the Anteu while turn Government; pcl'oi boats cruised around tb-3 vessel. r Lhp A r.ten later sailed tVr Australia. On her arrival the Empress of Japan unloaded under a police guard. Fifteen deep-sea ships arc in port and 3000 workers are idle.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 132, 7 June 1935, Page 7
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