. Agri-news. Agriculture. AGDEX: 848 March 17, 1975 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. BLUE COLLAR STRIKE AND GRAIN PRODUCERS "The strike by the federal government's blue collar workers is heavily penalizing Prairie grain farmers", says Nabi Chaudhary, transportation economist with Alberta Agriculture. He reports that the Canadian Wheat Board paid over $17,000,000 as demurrage (penalty) to shipping and railway companies between August 1, 1973 and October 31, 1974 because of strikes; and that the situation has been worsening since last November. In November, the grain inspectors strike hampered g
. Agri-news. Agriculture. AGDEX: 848 March 17, 1975 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. BLUE COLLAR STRIKE AND GRAIN PRODUCERS "The strike by the federal government's blue collar workers is heavily penalizing Prairie grain farmers", says Nabi Chaudhary, transportation economist with Alberta Agriculture. He reports that the Canadian Wheat Board paid over $17,000,000 as demurrage (penalty) to shipping and railway companies between August 1, 1973 and October 31, 1974 because of strikes; and that the situation has been worsening since last November. In November, the grain inspectors strike hampered grain transportation operations for about two weeks. Now the grain weighers and samplers strike has shut down government grain elevators across the Prairies,with the result that more than 100 truckers are at least temporarily out of business J. Ruteck, manager of the Trans-Mutual Truck Lines, reports that the loss in grain transportation is over 250,000 bushels a day. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is already 25,000,000 bushels behind on last year's grain export shipments. Shipment of this grain should have been completed by the end of October, 1974. During the last five months, the CWB has had only six weeks when they were able to ship grain. The rest of the time there was either a strike or a shortage of railway cars. (continued) 8 RELEASED BY THE COMMUNICATIONS BRANCH ALBERTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Communications Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Print Media Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Publishing Branch. [Edmonton] : Communications Branch, Alberta Dept. of Agriculture
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