Cette Manche Au Syndicat--la Greve Chez Dupuis Freres en 1952 (Labor Strike) Cette Manche Au Syndicat--la Greve Chez Dupuis Freres en 1952 (Labor Strike)

Cette Manche Au Syndicat--la Greve Chez Dupuis Freres en 1952 (Labor Strike‪)‬

Labour/Le Travail 2006, Spring, 57

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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, general and specific, leading to the outbreak of the strike. It then looks at the succession of events, here narrated in four distinct phases. The reconsideration of events is important for it allows us to better understand the theatrical dimension of this conflict which unfolded in an overall conjuncture of economic growth and union militancy. The article offers a preliminary interpretation of events which, it is hoped, will be rounded out by fellow-colleagues working in the field. The objective of the article is to remove the event from the mothballs of history and give it due consideration. LE 1 MAI 1952 les 1200 travailleurs du grand magasin et du comptoir postal de Dupuis Freres a Montreal, ont vote en faveur de la greve. D'une duree de trois mois, l'interruption du travail oppose une locale de la Confederation des travailleurs catholiques du Canada [CTCC] a une puissante entreprise commerciale et symbole national de l'economie canadienne-francaise (Dupuis Freres). L'historiographie de l'apres-guerre n'accorde pas une grande place a ce conflit, qui, a l'encontre d'autres conflits mieux connus--telle la greve de l'amiante (1949) et la greve de Murdochville (1957), s'est solde par une eclatante victoire du syndicat. L'article examine d'abord le contexte general et les conditions specifiques qui ont entraine le declenchement de la greve. Il analyse ensuite l'enchainement des evenements, qui se sont deroules en quatre phases ou series de faits dans le temps. Il importe de prendre le temps de reconsiderer les evenements dans l'ordre, car il ressort de l'exercice une perspective nous permettant d'apprehender l'enjeu fort theatralise du conflit qui se deroule dans une conjoncture de croissance economique et d'effervescence syndicale. Nous offrons un canevas preliminaire, que d'autres pourront completer a leur maniere, le but de l'exercice etant, dans un premier temps, de faire ressortir cette greve des boules a mites de l'Histoire.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2006
22 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
89
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canadian Committee on Labour History
SIZE
378.4
KB

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