“Machinery Guarded to Prevent Sabotage,” Montreal Star. January 11, 1937. Page 01. --- Workers Destroy Steam Shovel With Dynamite --- QUEBEC, Jan. 11 - (C.P.) - Machinery of the Provincial Department of Roads is being closely guarded, it was learned here today, following the destruction of a steam shovel last week by a dynamite blast. Other attempts at sabotage have been made, it is said. At St. Emile, near Loretteville, sugar and Maple Syrup were poured into fuel tanks of motors and the electrical systems of machinery were tampered with.
Work on the Quebec-Montreal Highway at Champigny, suspended following the dynamiting, was resumed today, said Arthur Bergeron, Deputy Minister of Roads. A new steam shovel was brought from Montreal.
Police are continuing investigation into the destruction of the shovel, allegedly by three men who held up the night watchman with a revolver. Protests against the use of machines in lieu of hand labor have been heard.
