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Lines of shoulder-to-shoulder police permit workers on foot or in cars to enter the Stelco grounds at Hamilton
Lines of shoulder-to-shoulder police permit workers on foot or in cars to enter the Stelco grounds at Hamilton

Lines of shoulder-to-shoulder police permit workers on foot or in cars to enter the Stelco grounds at Hamilton

Date8/5/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: Lines of shoulder-to-shoulder police permit workers on foot or in cars to enter the Stelco grounds at Hamilton. However; it was just lull before the storm. Pickets and police got into fight when the company tried to move in a trainload of scrap metal.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016156F
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