Railwaymen Far from Being Pleased: Huge Increase in Newsprint Costs Montreal, Apr. 6.
'The rising tide of industry is bring Ing to Canada her share of strikes. So far there have not been any of great duration, mediation by -governent officials' under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act "being fairly successful. Several Government spokesmen have declared that the called "sit-down" strikes of the type prevalent in the United States will not be tolerated, As this is understood "here if means. that the workers. in a plant enter the bulld-'Ings as though going about their regular work, and then declare and remain on the premises in pos fession unfit their demands are satl-
One wage dispute of national importance is. hanging in the balance this letter is being written, Failure {fo reach om amicable settlement may bickly result in a nation-wide rally Way strike that would literally cripple transportation. For the dispute is between the running irades of the Canadian railways, and their eme ployers, and the situation Is. dally At the back of the present disagreement fs the fact that during the years of the depression a deduction of 15 per cent, from the basle rates of the railwaymen was made for reasons of economy. After a long. struggle E'per cent. of this was returned to the ren about eighteen months ago, Soon fatter. that the union leaders' asked that there bea elnstatement of the! basle rates, "The executive heads of the oilways disagreed and afaint board of conciliation was set up. "As a result of lis deliberations report Wwas lssued—in Which the representatives of the men did not concur—recommending that. of the remaining per cent, deduction 2. per. cent. should be returned to the men once, 1 per cent. in 'August of this year' and'1 per cent, In. November. 'Phis woud still eave 7 per cent de: duction outstanding, and the report recommended that' the remainder Would be returned tu proportion as the net earnings of the railways me creased.
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