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Boss sweeps while workers picket, Thomas Quance, managing director of strike-troubled McGraw-Edison of Canada Ltd
Boss sweeps while workers picket, Thomas Quance, managing director of strike-troubled McGraw-Edison of Canada Ltd

Boss sweeps while workers picket, Thomas Quance, managing director of strike-troubled McGraw-Edison of Canada Ltd

Date5/1/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Boss sweeps while workers picket; Thomas Quance; managing director of strike-troubled McGraw-Edison of Canada Ltd. in Scarborough; uses push broom to sweep away tacks on the roadway before driving his car past the picket line behind him. About 200 members of United Steel Workers of America local have been on strike seven weeks over contract dispute.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016722F
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