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n toetbibunerhlrsdayaugmun sinclair stevens reports reject strikes in essential services it is likely we will have legislation in canada permanently banning strikes in essential ser vices but not this year alternatives to the strike weapon will be worked out for such in dustries at the present time if the government wished to introduce such legislation i believe it would have general support in the house but i also believe the trudeau government will be hesitant to take such a lead there is a growing impatience among the public with such essential service strikes there is a feeling that it is unfair to have parties completely innocent to the issues harmed while management and the unions iron out difficulties the general railway strike called by the union last week did not have to occur and it is at least partly due to lack of decisive action on the part of the federal government such a strike however once called has repercussions throughout the nation and this riding for example marsh farmers in our area have been unable to deliver many car lots of fresh vegetables to the atlantic area trucking facilities are not available as a result maritimers have had to resort to united states markets and our local produce will spoil if it cannot e held in cold storage officials believe that one car lot of lettuce onions and carrots loaded three weeks ago and worth ap proximately 4000 did not reach its destination and that the contents are now spoiled it is difficult to see how this type of loss assists either management or the union in settling their dispute the union has demanded a 216 per cent wage increase spread over two years railway management has apparently been willing to go twothirds of the way but no further in meeting the union position with inflation running at approximately 8 per cent per annum it can be seen how on the one hand it is natural for the workers to make such demands yet on the other hand if they are granted such increases it will inflame inflation further a previous settlement in 1966 coupled with the seaway workers wage increases triggered a severe round of inflation for the balance of the 1960s as the nation grapples with this current unfortunate situation it is interesting to review the three earlier situations where parliament has had to resort to temporary legislation to end rail disputes the most important single labor dispute to develop in canada in the postwar period was the one involving the railways which ended in an industrywide strike of 123000 nonoperating employees during august 22 to 30 1950 this was the first strike of any serious magnitude in railways since before world war 1 and the first in which both major railway systems the cpe and cnr were involved on a nationwide scale the dispute had been marked by bitter and protracted negotiations for more than a year from june 1949 until the announcement on august 10 1950 of the unions intention to strike on aug 22 the federal government had tried to obtain a last minute settlement before the strike took place when the strike began on aug 22 the prime minister announced that a special session of parliament would be held to deal with the emergency on august 24 he also convened a special meeting cf leading company and union representatives to resume direct negotiations in another lastditch effort to effect a settlement after two days these negotiations failed a special session of parliament started on august 29 1950 and a bill to enact the main tenance of railway operations act was passed after some discussion and amendment on aug 30 1950 the act required the railways to resume operations and the employees to return to work the parties meanwhile were to resume negotiations and if agreement still was not reached all issues of the dispute were to be determined by arbitration the governor in council appointing the arbitrator if the parties were unable to agree on their choice in 1960 the federal government intervened in a dispute between the railway unions and the railroad companies the details of the dispute were as follows in late 1959 the unions demanded wage increases of 7 per cent plus 1214 cents per hour and improved vacations a conciliation board established on march 31 1960 recommended a twoyear contract eroviding for increases in wages of 2 cents an our effective on jan 1 1960 another 5 cents an hour on sept 1 1960 and a further four per cent effective may 1 1961 it also recommended extended vacation leave the unions accepted the report but the railways announced that because of sharply falling traffic and declining revenues they could not bear the increases in labor costs entailed in the recommendations for the increases in wages therefore a strike vote was taken and the union announced that failing a settlement by dec 3 1960 a strike would take place at 8 am on that date a division of the ss kresge company limited special purchase ffcslvmmml 26 colour tv kill the who vandorf kill the urn oh excuse me mam thafs right 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