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Striker clubs carpenter
Striker clubs carpenter

Striker clubs carpenter

Date6/1/1961
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Original Toronto Star caption: Striker clubs carpenter. Using a piece of lumber as a club, a striking construction worker (left with arms raised) swings at a carpenter (wearing cap) working on a Midland Park housing development this morning. Other strikers stand by hooting and jeering as carpenter is driven off the construction job. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 1 June 1961, page 1, with article, ''Strikers, Workers Battle Police Rush to Scene''.(43.7614054, -79.2675633)
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016402F
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