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Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)

Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)

Date11/20/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8;800 secondary school teachers; 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Queen's Park yesterday. We are pawns in a game of obstinacy; Etobicoke Collegiate's Andy McBean said. Later; Wells re-emphasized that the government will not legislate an end to the strike. Leaders of the protest had expected more students to turn out.
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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(...)
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Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
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Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
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Students protest at Queen's Park in November, 1975 to persuade Ontario to end the Metro secondary school teachers' strike that ended classes for 140,0(...)
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After talks about legislating 8,800 striking teachers back to work, Education Minister Thomas Wells and Premier William Davis leave a downtown hotel t(...)
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Picketing alongside striking teachers, students at L'Amoureaux Collegiate in Scarborough march with their own placards yesterday, calling for an end t(...)
Picketing alongside striking teachers, students at L'Amoureaux Collegiate in Scarborough march with their own placards yesterday, calling for an end t(...)
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Without Teachers, three students at Georges Vannie Secondary School study on their own yesterday
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Still on strike mentally, as one teacher says, some of the 8,800 striking teachers legislated back to work form protest lines outside Jarvis Collegiat(...)
Still on strike mentally, as one teacher says, some of the 8,800 striking teachers legislated back to work form protest lines outside Jarvis Collegiat(...)
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Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)
Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)
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