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The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939

197930m

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Runtime: 30m
Genre: Documentary
Origin: Canada

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In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town's only employers, Swim Brothers and the Lockeport Company. Both fishplants had locked their doors rather than recognize the Canadian Fishermen's Union as official bargaining agent. For eight weeks, as autumn turned to winter, the men, with their wives and families, held firm. It was a bread-and-butter struggle that made national headlines--one of the first major attempts by Nova Scotia fishermen and fishhandlers to win union recognition, and one of the first major tests of the N.S. Trade Union Act, passed in 1937.

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Director: Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan
Status: Released
Released: Sep 30, 1979
Studio: Fish or Cut Bait Collective, Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)