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Trucks are ready to roll with the first edition of the printer-struck Telegram in this picture as International Typographical pickets look on. Both ed(...)
Trucks are ready to roll with the first edition of the printer-struck Telegram in this picture as International Typographical pickets look on. Both ed(...)

Trucks are ready to roll with the first edition of the printer-struck Telegram in this picture as International Typographical pickets look on. Both ed(...)

Date7/11/1964
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Original Toronto Star caption: Trucks are ready to roll with the first edition of the printer-struck Telegram in this picture as International Typographical pickets look on. Both editor-in-chief Doug Mac-Farlane and publisher John Bassett were on the scene as papers left plant for metro-wide delivery. Publishers of the three papers have announced willingness to meet the union at any time.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016748F
Picket line manned by members of the International Typographical Union parades outside Star Building after walk- out of printers about 1 p.m. yesterday
Picket line manned by members of the International Typographical Union parades outside Star Building after walk- out of printers about 1 p.m. yesterday
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Trucks Blocked: Postal pickets block the lane from the Toronto Island ferry docks yesterday, obstructing trucks carrying mail
Trucks Blocked: Postal pickets block the lane from the Toronto Island ferry docks yesterday, obstructing trucks carrying mail
8/29/1991
At the start of the dispute between International Typographical Union and the three Toronto daily newspapers in July, 1964, printers and mailers carry(...)
At the start of the dispute between International Typographical Union and the three Toronto daily newspapers in July, 1964, printers and mailers carry(...)
1/1/1971
Their Picketing's A Family Affair, Striking Printers, members of International Typographical Union, are joined by their women and children as they pic(...)
Their Picketing's A Family Affair, Striking Printers, members of International Typographical Union, are joined by their women and children as they pic(...)
8/6/1964
A Striking printer, sports a new placard - minus the term lockout - as he pickets The Star
A Striking printer, sports a new placard - minus the term lockout - as he pickets The Star
8/12/1964
Black door scuffle outside the struck Peterborough Examiner takes place between pickets and police as the officers make an unsuccessful attempt to get(...)
Black door scuffle outside the struck Peterborough Examiner takes place between pickets and police as the officers make an unsuccessful attempt to get(...)
11/9/1968
Angry posties: Pickets try to block a mall-loaded truck last month
Angry posties: Pickets try to block a mall-loaded truck last month
8/24/1991
Lining the Canal Bank at Thorold, pickets are ready to pelt the Glenelg and her crew
Lining the Canal Bank at Thorold, pickets are ready to pelt the Glenelg and her crew
4/23/1948
Setting up picket lines in Metro's first teacher strike, teachers at Northern Secondary School get their placards today when 8,800 teachers struck 135(...)
Setting up picket lines in Metro's first teacher strike, teachers at Northern Secondary School get their placards today when 8,800 teachers struck 135(...)
11/12/1975
Fred Jones, international representative of American Newspaper Guild, talks with truck drivers and loaders of The Star as they prepare to roll with fi(...)
Fred Jones, international representative of American Newspaper Guild, talks with truck drivers and loaders of The Star as they prepare to roll with fi(...)
6/11/1964
launched a strike at midnight. Joanne Leader, right, joined one of the first pickets at the South Central sorting plant on Eastern Ave., while 24,000 (...)
launched a strike at midnight. Joanne Leader, right, joined one of the first pickets at the South Central sorting plant on Eastern Ave., while 24,000 (...)
6/29/1981
These pickets at Windsor made mild protest when fellow-strikers first started to move the tangled mass of vehicles blockading this street but the union order prevailed
These pickets at Windsor made mild protest when fellow-strikers first started to move the tangled mass of vehicles blockading this street but the union order prevailed
11/7/1945