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Cheering them on
Cheering them on

Cheering them on

Date1/26/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Cheering them on: Picket captain Ron Rosenthal shouts words of encouragement to striking workers outside Toronto General Hospital. The illegal walkout at hospitals across Ontario has forced many to send patients home and cancel no emergency surgery.
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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_0016453F
Historic strike: In 1965, postal workers stunned the nation with a wildcat walkout that eventually won them the right to strike
Historic strike: In 1965, postal workers stunned the nation with a wildcat walkout that eventually won them the right to strike
7/27/1965
Getting their mail away despite the postal strike, people line up patiently in front of express window at bus terminal on Bay St., some of them using (...)
Getting their mail away despite the postal strike, people line up patiently in front of express window at bus terminal on Bay St., some of them using (...)
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On the line: Striking postal clerks, above, are condemned by readers, in letters at left and below, one of whom argues that we have our rights, too, and one of them is to receive our mail
On the line: Striking postal clerks, above, are condemned by readers, in letters at left and below, one of whom argues that we have our rights, too, and one of them is to receive our mail
7/8/1981
Happy to have work, employees of the post office in Belton sort hydro bills delivered to them yesterday
Happy to have work, employees of the post office in Belton sort hydro bills delivered to them yesterday
11/3/1975
To beard or not to beard - and they picket over it, Cabbies on strike because Co-op Cabs orders them to shed their centennial foliage
To beard or not to beard - and they picket over it, Cabbies on strike because Co-op Cabs orders them to shed their centennial foliage
2/28/1967
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Commuters lined up outside Union Station yesterday for buses to take them home
8/20/1973
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Worth The Wait? A bored commuter, stranded by the TTC strike, joins the line of people waiting yesterday at Union Station for GO trains to take them home
9/12/1991
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Camping out at Queen's Park, strikers from Toronto Western Hospital say they'll stay there until the provincial government helps them get back the job(...)
8/9/1972
Jubilant doctors in white hospital jacket were all smiles today aboard the double-decker bus that carried them from York Central Hospital in Richmond (...)
Jubilant doctors in white hospital jacket were all smiles today aboard the double-decker bus that carried them from York Central Hospital in Richmond (...)
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Commuters - many of them new - line up at the GO Transit station on Main St
Commuters - many of them new - line up at the GO Transit station on Main St
9/11/1978
gers Leave bus that brought them from Toronto to the International Airport to board an American Airlines jet remainder of their journey. At least 1,00(...)
gers Leave bus that brought them from Toronto to the International Airport to board an American Airlines jet remainder of their journey. At least 1,00(...)
1/18/1972
Detectives, one of them at right, helped restore order
Detectives, one of them at right, helped restore order
8/5/1966