Peace

Looking across the border at the tumultuous U.S. strike scene (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canadians could lift a righteous eyebrow. On their own labor front, trouble was down to an almost irreducible minimum.

At Cornwall, Ontario, 40 carpenters quit their jobs because management did not provide enough fires to keep them warm in the bitter weather, but they returned to work next day.

At Toronto University, 60 students staged a sophomorish sitdown in protest against having to travel 50 miles a day to & from applied-science classes at Ajax, Ontario. The strike lasted one hour. In Winnipeg, 124 Tribune and Free Press printers who had struck last November (TIME, Dec. 3) and had subsequently been fired for "absence from work," claimed they were still on strike. But the two papers had long since trained new printers and were publishing regularly.

In all of Canada at week's end, there was but one real strike--at St. Jerome, Quebec, where 800 rubber workers walked out of the Dominion Rubber Company plant in a jurisdictional squabble between the Synthetic Rubber Workers Union and the International Rubber Workers of America. The 800 strikers were .032% of Canada's 2,488,000 potential strikers.

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