Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Canada: THE DOMINION: Steel Strike
The inevitable happened this week. Canada's strike wave finally hit steel, cornerstone of Canada's industrial economy.
Some 14,000 members of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union started to walk out of Canada's three basic steel plants (Dominion Steel & Coal at Sydney, N.S., Steel Co. of Canada at Hamilton, Ont., Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) which supply about 80% of Canada's steel. Although the number of steelworkers was comparatively small, if they stayed out long enough they would ultimately force a serious coke shortage and the laying off of 423,000 other...
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