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Glory Days: A Play and History of the '46 Stelco Strike
by Bill Freeman
It’s 1946 and lives are ripped
apart and drawn back together again as Stelco hits the headlines with
major turmoil and the formation of local 1005. This is a story of the
muscle, bone and heart that goes into making steel.
Glory Days describes
Stelco in the 1930s and early ’40s as a workplace rank with discrimination
and favouritism. The workers lived under a form of tyranny where the
boss was king and their needs and wishes were simply disregarded. …the
common belief of management of the day was that workers needed to be
disciplined and tough foremen were an absolute necessity if companies
were to survive. Under that system, workers had no power and no means
to be able to struggle against that tyranny. The greatest achievement
of unions is that they gave workers the means to challenge this system,
and this led to a change of attitudes to the point where today no company,
unionized or non-unionized, would dare treat their workforce in such
autocratic and discriminatory ways.
—from the introduction
by Bill Freeman
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