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Pickets hit the street around Massey-Ferguson's sprawling Toronto plant today minutes after company's 5,700 employees in Toronto and Brantford walked (...)
Pickets hit the street around Massey-Ferguson's sprawling Toronto plant today minutes after company's 5,700 employees in Toronto and Brantford walked (...)

Pickets hit the street around Massey-Ferguson's sprawling Toronto plant today minutes after company's 5,700 employees in Toronto and Brantford walked (...)

Date4/19/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pickets hit the street around Massey-Ferguson's sprawling Toronto plant today minutes after company's 5;700 employees in Toronto and Brantford walked off their jobs quietly; sharp on the dot of their 11 a.m. strike deadline. The United Auto Workers union wants wage parity between Canadian and U.S. workers.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016457F
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