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

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 30, 1979

Original language

English

Spoken languages

english

Countries

Canada

Production

Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP),Fish or Cut Bait Collective

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded