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

    Documentary

    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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    Release Date

    September 30, 1979

    Status

    Released

    Original Title

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

    Runtime

    30min

    Budget

    —

    Revenue

    —

    Language

    English

    Production Companies

    Fish or Cut Bait CollectiveAtlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)