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Article: Cette manche au syndicat--La greve chez Dupuis Freres en 1952.(labor strike)
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- Labour/Le Travail
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Canadian Committee on Labour History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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ON 1 MAY 1952 the 1200 store and mail-order workers at Dupuis Freres in Montreal went out on strike. The conflict would last three months. The union, affiliated with the Confederation des travailleurs catholiques du Canada [CTCC] took on a powerful company, Dupuis Freres Ltee, with an established corporate image as a national symbol of French-Canadian entrepreneurship. The historiography of the post-war era has little to say of this event, which nonetheless ended in a resounding union victory. Historians instead have preferred to focus on such better-known conflicts as the Asbsetos strike of 1949 and the Murdochville strike of 1957. The article examines the context, ...
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