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"Angus Shops Strikers Back," Montreal Star. July 27, 1943. Page 3. --- Return on Promise To Consider Demands ---- Nearly all of the 1,600 striking machinists, day laborers and helpers of the Canadian Pacific Angus Shops returned to their jobs today on a promise made to them by company and union officials that their demands for an increase in the basic wage rate and a week's holiday with pay would receive "prompt consideration" as soon as they had returned to work.

Decision to return to work was reached at a mass meeting of union officials and workers at l'Assistance Publique Hall last night. At an early hour this morning, "practically all" the men had returned to their jobs, a company official stated.

The workers struck last Thursday, causing the layoff by the company of 6,000 skilled workers. Employes, now receiving 38 cents an hour basic wages as well as nine cents an hour cost of living bonus, ask that hourly basic rates be raised to 50 cents.

Acting as spokesman for the hundreds of workers at the meeting last night, Vincent Cabane urged the men to "show common sense" and return to their jobs. A day laborer himself, Cabane told his audience that the C.P.R. Local Federation, Division 4, A.F. of L., would back the workers in making their demands.

“Angus Shops Craftsmen Celebrate 100th Tank,” The Porcupine Advance (Timmins). November 20, 1941. Page 6. ---- It was a proud moment for employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Angus shops at Montreal when the 100th army tank rolled off the shops assembly line to take its place with others in the British armed forces. The important production milestone was marked by a gala ceremony during which Tank No. 100, gaily bedecked with flags and placards, was paraded down the shops midway to te strains of the employees’ brass band.

Cheering throngs of shopmen lined the broad runway as the tank-of-honor rumbled by symbolizing the stepped up tempo of production since the first Canadian-built tank was released from the big plant early in the summer. Large placards affixed to the tanks’ khaki sides indicated the determination of the employes who staged the ceremony on their own initiative, to do all in their power to contribute to victory.

As the procession drew up before the tank shops where other finished tanks stood in a grim line, the band played ‘O Canada’ and the National Anthem, and this was followed by lusty cheers as the Angus workers surveyed their handiwork. Many of the tank’s 99 Angus-built predecessor are already in service with the armed forces, and as the above placard says: ‘Hundreds more will follow quickly.