University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Minnesota Law Review 1921 Labor Legislation in Canada William Renwick Riddell Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Riddell, William Renwick, "Labor Legislation in Canada" (1921). Minnesota Law Review. 2510. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/2510 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Minnesota Law Review collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW Vol. V JANUARY, 1921 No. 2 LABOR LEGISLATION IN CANADA By WILLIAm RENWICK RIDDELL* THE economical problems of Canada are not different from those of the United States except in unimportant minutiae; and the answers attempted in the one country may not be without interest in the other. In these papers some account will be given of the legislation in Canada in the matter of labor, strikes, and the like.' The earliest legislation of the Dominion followed somewhat closely the existing legislation in England. The Imperial Parlia- ment in 1896 passed an act2 of which the principle as stated by its proposer was "to endeavor to establish a system of settling 3 disputes between employers and employed, by conciliation. It *Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. 1 There is no pretence at originality in these papers; nearly all of the materials for them will be found in an article by Mr. F. A.