摘要：In September 1919, seventy-two employers and seventy nine trade union leaders faced each other across the floor of Canada's august Senate Chamber. Deep differences among the delegates to the "National Industrial Conference" did little to dispel their common sense of participation in an event of historic proportions. Readily apparent to all was the symbolism of representatives of the two great social classes of industrial Canada squaring-off in debate over the shape of post-war "reconstruction."
