Director, Leslie McFarlane ; producer, Nicholas Balla ; script, Ian MacNeill, Morten Parker ; photography, Walter A. Sutton ; sound, Joseph Champagne ; editing, Fergus McDonell ; sound editing, Dino Di Campo.

Narrator, John Drainie ; cast, Elizabeth Amos, Sheila Coonan, Brendan Dillon, Edward Holmes, Howard Kennedy, Norman Knapp, Cec Linder, James Doohan, Howard Milsom, Karl Wilkin.

Recorded 1955.

The threat of a strike nobody wants, but which everyone seems powerless to avert, lends suspense to this story of events leading to a deadlock in negotiations between the management and employees of a furniture factory. Staged against the background of a small one-industry town, this film shows the normal processes of collective bargaining common to Canadian industry today and how they affect a union, a company and a community.

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Silver Reel - Second Award - Category: Economics and Business, 1956

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).