Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Fish or Cut Bait Collective, Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)
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documentary short
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The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939
30 minDocumentary
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.
DirectorsTom BurgerBill McKiggan
