Copyright © 2012 Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8

ISBN 978-1-926836-78-2 (print) 978-1-926836-79-9 (PDF) 978-1-926836-80-5 (epub)

A volume in Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH

ISSN 1925-1831 (print) 1925-184X (digital)

Cover and interior design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design.

Cover images: (front) Crib work construction for the Toronto Power Generating Station, September 3, 1903. D417580. Courtesy of Niagara Falls (Ontario)

Public Library. (back) Hermann Sigurdsson / Shutterstock.com

Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Book Printers.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Patrias, Carmela, 1950 –

Union power : solidarity and struggle in Niagara/
Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage.

(Working Canadians, books from the CCLH, 1925-1831 ; v. 3)
Co-published by: CCLH.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued in electronic format.

ISBN 978-1-926836-78-2

1. Labor movement — Ontario — Niagara Peninsula — History.
2. Labor unions — Ontario — Niagara Peninsula — History. I. Savage, Larry, 1977– II. Title. III. Series: Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) ; 3

HD6529.N52P38 2012 331.8809713′38 C2012-901702-7

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Government of Alberta
Canadian Committee on Labour History

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