Foreign News: Foreign News, Aug. 1, 1949

The four-week-old London dock strike was over. This week 15,500 dock workers went back to work and 12,000 troops who had been taking their places returned to their regular duties. Officials of the Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union did what the Labor government was unable to do. They called off their strike as far as British ports were concerned. So the dockers could, without being called "blacklegs," unload the two Canadian ships that had started the trouble.

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