ACTIONS IN QUEBEC march through the city and join the central demonstration. The mobilization was also large outside Montréal. In the Joliette region 15,000 workers leff their factories and offices. In Québec city 2, 000 workers of the Lauzon naval shipyards, in Trois Rivières 1,000 textile workers of the Wabasso factory, and in Thetford the asbestos miners celebrated the international- workers holiday with strikes and street demonstrations. This springtime renewal of the workers mobilizations coincided with the emergence of new regional trade-union common fronts among the Fédération des Travailleurs du Québec (FTQ-Federation of Workers of Québec), the Confédération des Syndicals Nationaux (CSN-Confederation of National Trade Unions), and the Centrale de l'Enseignement du Québec (CEQ-the Québec teachers federation). This was especially the case in Sainte Thérèse, Joliette, and Trois Rivières. The central demonstration in Montréal was attended by nearly 15,000 people, who marched from Moison Park to Paul Sauvé Center in the castern part of the city, where the demonstration ended with an interunion rally. In spite of the weak efforts made by the union leadership to mobilize the members, many contingents of workers were present: the stevedores on illegal strike in the port of Montréal, the postal workers, the workers of United Aircraft (an airplane engine factory that has been on strike since December 1973), the city bus and subway workers, and the workers of the Southwest, centered around the strikers of the Coleco factory. For the first time, there was an independent contingent of several hundred women in the demorstration, in response to the call of fourteen organizations, among them the Conseil du Travail de Montréal (Montréal Labor Council), the FTQ, the CEQ, and the Groupe Marxiste Révolutionnaire (Revolucont'd. on pg. 31.