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Statement Made by Dr. Télesphore Parizeau Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
of the Université de Montréal Le
Devoir, Tuesday June 19, 1934, p. 3 The
Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal is happy that order has been
re-established in the hospitals affected by the strike.
In
support of the declaration made by the authorities of Notre Dame Hospital, the
Faculty wishes to inform its student-internes, the only ones that fall under its
authority, that it consents, this one time, to forgive the very grave infraction
that they have committed. Further, the Faculty wishes to remind them that they
not only failed to strictly obey the regulations of the Faculty, but that, as
well, they unfortunately forgot the compelling duty that is theirs: to care for
the sick. The Faculty declares that never they will be recognised the right to
strike, a right already very disputable in commerce and industry, and which is
absolutetly inadmissible in the hospital services where all of its members must
devote themselves strictly to the care of the sick.
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1999 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College (For the translation) |