#canadian pacific railways

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"UNIONS EMPOWERED TO DECLARE STRIKE OF RUNNING TRADES," Toronto Globe. September 30, 1933. Page 1 & 2. ---- General Chairmen of Rail Brotherhoods Considering Next Move --- SECRET SESSIONS HELD ---- Growing Industrial Troubles Complicate Conditions in Canada ---- While one Canadian industrial strike was deadlocked yesterday an- other that might involve 30,000 workers was authorized.

Eight-hundred workers appeared definitely out of work with the decision of executives of six furniture factories and one meat packing plant to break off negotiations with workers who walked out a fortnight ago demanding higher wages and union recognition. In Montreal, union officials of the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway running trades announced a strike vote had authorized them to call a walk-out If other efforts should fail to prevent enforcement of a second 10 per cent. cut in the basic wage rate. It was rumored, however, that further conferences would be held between union heads and railway executives.

At Kelowna, British Columbia, 500 angry farmers won their first skirmish against fruit shippers they claim were seeking to violate rules of a newly created Stabilization Marketing Board by shipping apples to market in bulk carloads. The farmers crowded onto a siding and prevented a locomotive from picking up cars said to be laden with bulk fruit shipment. While the 500 growers resisted passively, others rushed to Vernon, thirty miles distant, roused Judge Swanson and secured an Injunction preventing shipper and two railways from moving fruit in contravention of the board's "orderly marketing" rules.

Rail Strike Authorized. Montreal, Sept. 29. - With their hands strengthened by a vote among about 30,000 members empowering a strike, leaders of the railway running trades tonight were considering the next step in their fight against a second 10 per cent, cut in basic wage rates.

Since the tabulation of the vote was completed yesterday, the twenty- one General Chairmen and five union Vice-Presidents have been in conference behind closed doors. Announcement of the result of the strike ballot was made today after the rail- ways were first notified as a courtesy, but the figures for and against were not revealed. The bare announcement that the men had given the union leaders power to call a strike was not accompanied by any statement as to future action. although rumors about their headquarters were that another wage conference would be held shortly with railway heads.

Lines Not Surprised. From the railways no comment was forthcoming. The result of the vote probably occasioned little surprise, however, as it had been freely predicted for several days.

If further efforts to settle the question amicably should fail, the union heads would have to decide the date of the strike and make other preparations. The question of whether railway workers outside the running trades would join in a walkout would be considered. A co-operative association of railway labor unions has been formed to deal with this, among other questions.

The second cut in basic rates went into effect on May 1. A previous cut of 10 per cent., while not involved in the strike vote, is still subject to dispute, and a test case is being started in the courts to collect the deductions made after Feb. 1, 1933, on - which date the men claim their agreement for a reduced wage expired. Union men declined today to say whether the vote had been communicated to the Dominion Government.

Companies to Reply. Edmonton, Sept. 29. - "It is quite correct. The railways have taken cognizance of the communication and will make their reply in a few days. That is all it possible for me I to say just now," said E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, today when shown a report from Montreal saying officials of the railway running trades unions had notified the companies they had been authorized by their members to call a strike.

[partiallypearl]

i think about frank zhang and his family and how shen lun fled camp jupiter to canada and the historical context behind it all and i shiver.

shen and his family, i imagine that they would have immigrated during the gold rush (after the san Francisco earthquake) which would be right during the chinese head tax

and the railway was constructed from 1881-1885, and that's when the government first started the head tax

so reasonably his family could have immigrated to canada during that time period escaping cj, and his relatives could have either been gold miners or railway workers

they would have attempted to bring more family members from china over only to be blocked by the head tax and the raising of the price

[20th-century-railroading]

Susquehanna

N.Y.S.& W. EMD GP18's 1804 & 1800 head West with a three car train.

Little Ferry, New Jersey June 1994

[collinthenychudson]

I've been wanting to get around into building CP 2816 in Minecraft. I didn't do the ditchlights since I wanted to do the locomotive's most recent appearance, particulary on it's final spike tour.

[guy60660]

Canadian Pacific Railway

[vox-anglosphere]

For a lifetime of memories, cross the Rocky Mountains on the CPR

[grainelevator]

Canadian Pacific 3065 (EMD GP38-2) leaving the grain elevator in Rockglen, Saskatchewan [source]

[iris-echos]

Hey yallll

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[graintrainbrain]

A postcard from 1906 showing the Canadian Pacific Railway station in Brandon, Manitoba. Photo source

Brandon is a true railroad town; it may never have existed without the CPR. The railroad company chose and named the townsite in 1881, electing to run the trans-continental railroad just 3.2km west of the existing settlement of Grand Valley. Today, Brandon is the second-largest city in Manitoba, while Grand Valley is a Historical Site display cairn.

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Why not enjoy some Broiled Wiltshire Bacon at Canadian Pacific Railway? http://menus.nypl.org/menus/12605

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Mount Temple and the Bow River from Morant’s Curve (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views from Morant’s Curve along the Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park. My thought on composing this image was to pull back on the focal length and include foreground interest with the Bow River and some nearby forest. Mount Temple and other ridges and peaks of the Bow Range would be a backdrop for this setting in the Canadian Rockies.

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"AVERT RAIL STRIKE BY FEDERAL ACTION. IS REPORTED PLAN," Toronto Globe. October 5, 1933. Page 1 & 2. --- Intervention Rumor Is Strengthened by Bennett Conference With Officials ---- STATEMENT TO BE ISSUED ---- Cahan at Montreal "Prays to Heaven" for Settlement ---- (Canadian Press Despatch.) ---- Ottawa, Oct. 4. - Belief that the Dominion Government will intercede in the dispute between Canadian railways and their employees over the proposed wage reduction was strengthened today as Prime Minister Bennet: held long conferences with S. J. Hungerford, President of the Canadian National, and Grant Hall, Vice-President of the Canadian Pacific.

It is understood further discussions will take place tomorrow between Mr. Bennett and representatives of the men, whose recent vote on the question was said to be overwhelmingly in favor of a strike rather than acceptance of the second reduction of 10 per cent, below the basic rate of pay.

No official information was available today, but it is believed possible statement may be issued shortly indicating what has been done to alleviate the situation.

Beatty. Back Today. E. W. Beatty, K.C., President of the Canadian Pacific, who has been on an extended tour of Western Canada, will be in Ottawa tomorrow on his way back to Montreal, and will no doubt confer with the Prime Minister.

Associated with this problem, and considered in some quarters as of similar importance, is the matter of appointing new trustees to replace the Canadian National Board of Directors. The legislation designed: to stimulate co-operation between the two great systems, and to reorganize the Canadian National, went into effect on July 1. It called for the appointment of a board of three trustees to replace the Canadian National directors.

Announcement that these appointments had been made has been expected daily for the past week. It is understood Mr. Bennett will endeavor, if at all possible, to name this board before he leaves Saturday for his Western tour, so that no further time may be lost in setting in motion the plans for economic co-operation which have been formulated by a joint committee of the two railways during the interval since the legislation was enacted by Parliament.

Cahan Hopes for Settlement. Montreal, Oct. 4. - "I pray to Heaven that those men will not go to the extreme of a strike," declared Hon. C. H. Cahan, Secretary of State, today, in discussing the railway running trades' strike vote before the Women's Conservative Association of Montreal.

Responsibility of the most serious kind, Mr. Cahan stated, rested upon the railway employees when they were considering a strike. They must remember that they would be bringing ruin to many commercial and industrial enterprises throughout the length and breadth of Canada in refusing to accept a reduction "in the highest rate of wages paid any workers."

Sympathy with the railway men faced with reduction in their earnings was expressed by the Secretary of State. All classes in Canada, however, were called on to make sacrifices. "As for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, it has brought more credit to Canada than any other institution," he continued. "I think we have made up our minds fully - and in this I believe I can speak for the Government of Canada - that so long as we have any credit left we are not going to allow the C.P.R. to go into the hands of a receiver and into banruptcy."

The country has to make good a deficit of $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 a year in the running expenses of the Canadian National Railways, мг. Cahan said, "and it seems pretty hard to impose increased taxes to pay more money to the men who operate that road."

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Canadian Pacific Rail Station, Winnipeg, taken around 1940. The building, which was the fourth railway station on the site, was built between 1904-1906, and enlarged in 1915. It operated as a railway station until 1978. It has the distinction of being the first Beaux-Arts style building in Canada. Since 1992, it’s belonged to the Neeginan Centre, or the Aboriginal Centre of Winnipeg

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STL663 by Citizen of the Galaxy Via Flickr: The head end of eastbound NYS&W double stack train NTV-4C, on this day borrowed CP Rail power including lead SD40-2 No. 5697, crests the Erie mainline grade at Gulf Summit on the first day of February 1992, back when winter looked a little more like winter.

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[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Same also lots of people already do but more should be BUILD HI RISE APARTMENTS ONTOP OF TRAIN STATIONS

(looking at you Los Angeles, Denver and Dallas)

Also this applies to Canada as well (run Hourly Trains to Drummondville and Mount Tremblant Exo you Cucks, and Metrolinx Quadtrack the Dundas Subdivision and run trains to Brantford, oh also Cambridge, Collingwood, Peterborough, Bolton, and Stratford, and TransLink move to the WCE to the Canadian Northern line along the South bank of the Fraser to Chiliwack, and Calgary buid a Suburban Rail system already, and Ottawa run trains to Smith Falls and Casselman, also Halifax run trains to Truro and Yarmouth)

AND KITCHENER YOU BETTER BUILD A MINI S-BAHN FROM GUELPH TO STRATFORD BADEN AND NEW HAMBURG NEED STATIONS TOO

"ohhh wahhh the problem with building out america's rail network is that nobody wants to live next to train tracks-" I DO BITCH!!!!!!!! #I<3INDUSTRIALNOISES #SEXWITHATRAIN