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Strikers march on city hall, Striking Royal York hotel employees parade from city hall to Union Station to protest the hotel's exemption from city bus(...)
Strikers march on city hall, Striking Royal York hotel employees parade from city hall to Union Station to protest the hotel's exemption from city bus(...)

Strikers march on city hall, Striking Royal York hotel employees parade from city hall to Union Station to protest the hotel's exemption from city bus(...)

Date5/25/1961
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Original Toronto Star caption: Strikers march on city hall; Striking Royal York hotel employees parade from city hall to Union Station to protest the hotel's exemption from city business taxes. Some carried stuffed pillow cases representing the exemption; some $180;000.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016764F
Talking to police sergeant, Patrick Murphy, president of striking Canadian Union of General Employees (CUGE), and strikers from Toronto Western Hospit(...)
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The president of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Russell Doyle, tells striking civic workers outside City Hall union negotiators have ac(...)
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Metro strikers parading outside city hall today, If people want to walk through our picket line that's their business
11/4/1966
Non-Strikers, right, argue with striking Cabbie, left, and union official (in beard
Non-Strikers, right, argue with striking Cabbie, left, and union official (in beard
8/25/1991
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
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Union station still has Tomb-like stillness about it as most strikers stay on the streets
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Rain pelts down on museum strikers, Pickets march in the rain outside the Royal Ontario Museum, hit yesterday by its second strike this week when 229 (...)
Rain pelts down on museum strikers, Pickets march in the rain outside the Royal Ontario Museum, hit yesterday by its second strike this week when 229 (...)
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Rain pelts down on museum strikers, Pickets march in the rain outside the Royal Ontario Museum, hit yesterday by its second strike this week when 229 (...)
Rain pelts down on museum strikers, Pickets march in the rain outside the Royal Ontario Museum, hit yesterday by its second strike this week when 229 (...)
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One of about 450 striking hydro and water workers in Scarborough cools off her feet while picketing the utilities headquarters. The strikers, who have(...)
One of about 450 striking hydro and water workers in Scarborough cools off her feet while picketing the utilities headquarters. The strikers, who have(...)
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