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Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)
Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)

Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)

Date6/15/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant in Scarborough today. About 150 strikers; members of Local 295; United Glass and Ceramic Workers of America; were lining the tracks behind the plant when police arrived to bolster half a dozen CN police near the plant on Warden Ave. and St. Clair Ave. E.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016717F
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