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Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants, 8,000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An are(...)
Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants, 8,000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An are(...)

Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants, 8,000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An are(...)

Date11/5/1945
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants; 8;000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An area covering 20 city blocks around the plant was blocked off by a union barricade of cars and trucks.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016203F
Owner of a private car, after presenting proper identification, was assisted out of the thickest of the barricade in front of the Ford plant's main gate by good-natured pickets
Owner of a private car, after presenting proper identification, was assisted out of the thickest of the barricade in front of the Ford plant's main gate by good-natured pickets
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Pickets surround a car approaching the main gate of the sprawling Hamilton plant and bar its entry
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One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
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11/4/1966
In hit-and-run strike by Ontario Hydro workers, pickets march today in front of the hydro engineering building on Murray St. Union is calling out grou(...)
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2/5/1969
Pickets patrolling at locked gates to the Island ferry terminal, members of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, who went on strike at 7 a.m.(...)
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Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)
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4/26/1972
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
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Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)
Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)
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