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November 23, 1929
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
Lumber workers in Shebaqua, Ontario, led by the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union, maintain a solid strike against bosses' intimidation tactics, including police presence and rumors. Workers from diverse backgrounds unite, resisting attempts to undermine the effort.
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SHEBAQUA, ONT. LUMBER TOILERS STRIKE SOLID
Are Led by Fighting Industrial Union
(By a Worker Correspondent)
PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, (By Mail).--The greatest fear and hatred of the union is being manifested by the bosses in the Shebaqua lumber strike. On one occasion police were at Shebaqua station in the hopes of scaring the pickets into inactivity on another false rumor spread about the beating up of scabs. There haven't been any beating up of scabs, it hasn't been necessary; as fast as men come down from Winnipeg and other distant points they join the strike.
On another occasion U. Aho, who had announced that he would "fix all union delegates," had police at his camp. Just the same three delegates made the necessary ten mile walk through the swamps and the camp came out 100 per cent.
The jobbers, unable to defeat the men by direct action are trying flank attacks. They are saying that the strike would be justified if it was general, that it is house pulling out one or two camps as they fill up as fast as they are pulled, that the men should join with the moribund IWW, etc.
They even got a stool pigeon to represent himself as a striker, enter a strikers' meeting and try to undermine the moral of the men.
All these little tricks are in vain, however. The men are standing solid. They stand firm behind the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union of Canada in its fight on their behalf.
Slavs, Finns and Anglo Saxons are united behind the strike committee and answer the strike call as fast as it reaches them.
A new spirit of militancy is abroad among the lumber workers today. Forward to 100 per cent organization in the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada. J. C.
Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bottom Up--at the Enterprises!
Are Led by Fighting Industrial Union
(By a Worker Correspondent)
PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, (By Mail).--The greatest fear and hatred of the union is being manifested by the bosses in the Shebaqua lumber strike. On one occasion police were at Shebaqua station in the hopes of scaring the pickets into inactivity on another false rumor spread about the beating up of scabs. There haven't been any beating up of scabs, it hasn't been necessary; as fast as men come down from Winnipeg and other distant points they join the strike.
On another occasion U. Aho, who had announced that he would "fix all union delegates," had police at his camp. Just the same three delegates made the necessary ten mile walk through the swamps and the camp came out 100 per cent.
The jobbers, unable to defeat the men by direct action are trying flank attacks. They are saying that the strike would be justified if it was general, that it is house pulling out one or two camps as they fill up as fast as they are pulled, that the men should join with the moribund IWW, etc.
They even got a stool pigeon to represent himself as a striker, enter a strikers' meeting and try to undermine the moral of the men.
All these little tricks are in vain, however. The men are standing solid. They stand firm behind the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union of Canada in its fight on their behalf.
Slavs, Finns and Anglo Saxons are united behind the strike committee and answer the strike call as fast as it reaches them.
A new spirit of militancy is abroad among the lumber workers today. Forward to 100 per cent organization in the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada. J. C.
Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bottom Up--at the Enterprises!
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
Personal Triumph
What themes does it cover?
Bravery Heroism
Justice
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Lumber Strike
Shebaqua
Union Solidarity
Workers Militancy
Ontario Labor
What entities or persons were involved?
U. Aho
J. C.
Where did it happen?
Shebaqua, Ontario
Story Details
Key Persons
U. Aho
J. C.
Location
Shebaqua, Ontario
Story Details
Lumber workers strike solidly in Shebaqua under the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union; bosses use police, rumors, and infiltrators to break it, but diverse workers unite and resist successfully.