[Seagram's Distillery workers strike]

Members of Distillery Workers Local 69 picket Seagram's plant in New Westminster despite refusal of union's international office to support the strike when workers rejected a contract already signed at company operations elsewhere in Canada. The B.C. Federation of Labour upheld workers' right to sign their own collective agreement and worked with CLC to mount a boycott of Seagram's products. The local was successful in signing a better, improved agreement hammered out Aug. 12 after five months on the picket line.