Union recognition, wage increases, shorter working hours
Methods
Strike, picket lines, rioting
Resulted in
Victory for workers, improved wages and working conditions
Parties
Textile Workers Union of America
Dominion Textile
Quebec government
Lead figures
Kent Rowley Madeleine Parent
Maurice Duplessis
Number
3,000 mill workers
400+ strikebreakers
250+ police
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e
Textile strikes in United States
1800s
Mill Women 1834
Paterson 1835
Mill Women 1836
New England shoe 1860
North Adams shoe 1870
1900s–1920s
Skowhegan 1907
New York shirtwaist 1909
Chicago garment 1910
Lawrence 1912
Little Falls 1912–1913
Hopedale1913
Paterson silk 1913
Ipswich Mills 1913
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills 1914–1915
New England 1922
Passaic 1926
New Bedford 1928
Loray Mill 1929
1930s–1970s
Los Angeles garment 1933
National 1934
Lewiston-Auburn shoe 1937
Montreal Cotton 1946
1980s–2000s
NYC Chinatown 1982
City centre of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
The Montreal Cottons Company strike of 1946 was a hundred-day-long strike in which 3,000 mill workers from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, fought for the right to obtain a collective agreement.[1] Mill workers in Valleyfield walked off the job on June 1, 1946, as part of a larger textile strike movement which included one of Dominion Textile's mills located within Montreal.[2] The strikes were organized by the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), an international union.[3] In Valleyfield, Kent Rowley and Madeleine Parent acted as representatives of the UTWA.[4]
By August 1, the strike had been settled in Montreal and workers had returned to work at the Dominion Textile mills after entering negotiations with the company.[5] In Valleyfield the situation was different, and only after a violent riot on August 13 would the company seriously enter negotiations with the workers.[6] After the riot, strikers returned to work September 9 and a collective agreement was signed November 26 between Montreal Cottons Ltd. (the parent of Montreal Cotton Co.) and union representatives.[7]
Locally, the strike was important since it was the first time that workers at Montreal Cotton's Valleyfield mill obtained a collective contract.[8] The labour activism and the role of women in this strike challenge the historical narrative of a hegemonic conservative Quebec under the leadership of Maurice Duplessis.
^"Dans le Textile: La grève déclenchée," La Presse, June 1 st , 1946, 19.
^"Dans le Textile: La grève déclenchée," La Presse, June 1 st , 1946, 19.
^Lt- Col. W.G.E. Aird, "La grève est réglée à Montréal, mais pas ici," Le Progrès de Valleyfield, August 1, 1946, 1.
^Lucie Bettez, "Cent Jours dans la vie des Campivallensiennes. La grève de 1946 à Salaberry-de-Valleyfield," Labour/Le Travail, 62 (Fall 2008), 25-26.
^Lucie Bettez, "Cent Jours dans la vie des Campivallensiennes. La grève de 1946 à Salaberry-de-Valleyfield," Labour/Le Travail, 62 (Fall 2008), 26.
^Madeleine Parent, "Usurping the Reign of the Favorites: Interview with Madeleine Parent," interview by Christina Starr, Women's Education des Femmes 6, no.3 (Summer 1988):7.
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