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Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)

Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)

Date11/5/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today; All days off for uniformed and traffic policemen have been cancelled until further notice because of the strike of city and Metro employees
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016854F
Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)
Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)
4/26/1972
Peaceful confrontation: police and metro strikers maintain an orderly vigil in Nathan Phillips Square, The new City Hall is at far left, Police are lined up between it and the marching pickets
Peaceful confrontation: police and metro strikers maintain an orderly vigil in Nathan Phillips Square, The new City Hall is at far left, Police are lined up between it and the marching pickets
11/3/1966
One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
11/4/1966
Strikers demonstrate: About 100 of the 400 central library workers who have been on strike for six weeks demonstrate in Nathan Phillips Square yesterday before a Metro council meeting
Strikers demonstrate: About 100 of the 400 central library workers who have been on strike for six weeks demonstrate in Nathan Phillips Square yesterday before a Metro council meeting
6 November 1984
Seeing eye dog guides pickets outside queen's park, Broom workers walked off CNIB job demanding higher wages
Seeing eye dog guides pickets outside queen's park, Broom workers walked off CNIB job demanding higher wages
5/27/1966
Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)
Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)
5/29/1991
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
11/19/1975
Checking off the names of postal workers manning the picket line outside the main post office building in Toronto today, union shop steward Clark Robi(...)
Checking off the names of postal workers manning the picket line outside the main post office building in Toronto today, union shop steward Clark Robi(...)
6/9/1970
Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants, 8,000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An are(...)
Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants, 8,000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An are(...)
11/5/1945
In hit-and-run strike by Ontario Hydro workers, pickets march today in front of the hydro engineering building on Murray St. Union is calling out grou(...)
In hit-and-run strike by Ontario Hydro workers, pickets march today in front of the hydro engineering building on Murray St. Union is calling out grou(...)
2/5/1969
A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
11/3/1966
Truckers and pickets square off, A police officer intervenes yesterday between strikers and truckers at the Ontario Food Terminal. Truckers who were f(...)
Truckers and pickets square off, A police officer intervenes yesterday between strikers and truckers at the Ontario Food Terminal. Truckers who were f(...)
5/6/1991