STRIKERS SET UP TRAFFIC JAM
TROUBLE IN CANADA
CARS, BUSES, DIRECTED INTO THE BARRICADE.
Recd. 8 p.ni. Ottawa, Nov. 5. To ton a possible police attempt to cross a picket line, strikers at the Ford plant in Windsor, Ontario threw up a barricade of nearly 1000 vehicles, causing an unprecedented traffic jam, affecting d str.cts miles in extent. The strikers directed passing vehicles into the barricades unt.l they included buses, trucks and also cars belonging to scores of businessmen, which were intercepted while proceeding to work. The city fire chief expressed concern because the blockade closed all but two streets leading to Windsor’s residential section. The union's action followed the despatch of 250 provincial police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the scene after an unsucessful attempt by the city police to enter the plant. The out* it the plant had reached 15,000 by noon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 263, 7 November 1945, Page 5
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