Montreal Police Strike
(Rec. 1 p.m.) MONTREAL, Dec. 14. Demanding union recognition, police, firemen and public works employees began to strike this morning. Police chiefs announced that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Quebec • provincial police and a civilian protection committee of armed men have taken over the 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 Canadian Congress of Labour Unions as the Union of Public Works employees, but insisted upon no more than a house union for police and firemen, or alternatively, wage increases, but the compromise was rejected. Public works employees struck in sympathy, 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 fire-stations have been taken over by the army.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1943, Page 5
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