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Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail, which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirt(...)
Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail, which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirt(...)

Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail, which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirt(...)

Date12/30/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail; which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirty Metro police moved into the jail to join 23 supervisory personnel in carrying out guards' duties. Men are protesting the transfer of jail to provincial government.
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Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards protesting takeover of jail by Ontario, costing them union membership, benefits
Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards protesting takeover of jail by Ontario, costing them union membership, benefits
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Don jail guards, Don Martin, John Berezuk and Alex Heron Picket old city hall in bid to keep fellow union members from reporting to work as court cler(...)
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Court clerks Ed Bavington (left) and Bruce Hind were fired this morning because they continued picketing old city hall in support of Don Jail guards, (...)
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