100 years ago, on what was then called Dominion Day, a violent crackdown on Nova Scotia miners helped usher in the modern labour movement.
J.B. McLachlan
Within days, more than 1,000 soldiers were deployed to the strike zone. Meanwhile, McLachlan and another leader were arrested and taken to Halifax on charges of “publishing false news.”As chance would have it, the governor general, Lord Byng, was on a tour of the province and agreed to meet with the arrested men. Then-prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King warned the governor general not to get involved. Still, the meeting went ahead.
He also continued to worry about his governor general. Byng would be a problem again in 1926, when heAs for the steelworkers, they did not win union recognition until 1937, when the province, fearing a recurrence of unrest, introduced a Trade Union Act, the first in Canada to include a statutory right to collective bargaining and the union check-off.
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