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TTC Striker's sign attacks Premier William Davis, Toronto Mayor David Crombie and Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey
TTC Striker's sign attacks Premier William Davis, Toronto Mayor David Crombie and Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey

TTC Striker's sign attacks Premier William Davis, Toronto Mayor David Crombie and Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey

Date8/29/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: TTC Striker's sign attacks Premier William Davis; Toronto Mayor David Crombie and Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey. It was on display after a meeting of the strikers yesterday rejected Davis' plan to end the 19-day transit strike.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016936F
Thumbs-down disapproval of Premier William Davis plan to settle the transit strike is expressed by strikers leaving a meeting yesterday in Scarborough
Thumbs-down disapproval of Premier William Davis plan to settle the transit strike is expressed by strikers leaving a meeting yesterday in Scarborough
8/29/1974
Sleepy and angry early today, after a long night of fruitless negotiations, Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey (left), TTC Chairman Gordon Hurlburt and TTC c(...)
Sleepy and angry early today, after a long night of fruitless negotiations, Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey (left), TTC Chairman Gordon Hurlburt and TTC c(...)
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Metro chairman Paul Godfrey, who is leading the TTC delegation in talks aimed at ending the 11-day-old transit strike, meets with Leonard Moynehan, pr(...)
Metro chairman Paul Godfrey, who is leading the TTC delegation in talks aimed at ending the 11-day-old transit strike, meets with Leonard Moynehan, pr(...)
8/22/1974
Waiting Line: TTC strikers in their sixth day off the job keep up their spirits at the Connaught yard yesterday as they wait for word of a new agreement worked out in an overnight mediation session
Waiting Line: TTC strikers in their sixth day off the job keep up their spirits at the Connaught yard yesterday as they wait for word of a new agreement worked out in an overnight mediation session
9/17/1991
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
9/1/1974
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
9/1/1974
Burning in defiance the proposals put forward by Premier William Davis last week to end TTC strike, workers typify disrespect for laws now common to Canadian unions
Burning in defiance the proposals put forward by Premier William Davis last week to end TTC strike, workers typify disrespect for laws now common to Canadian unions
8/29/1974
Boxed-in TTC striker Bob Miles uses sign in front of Queen's Park today voicing disapproval as members of the Legislature met to end Metro's 19-day tr(...)
Boxed-in TTC striker Bob Miles uses sign in front of Queen's Park today voicing disapproval as members of the Legislature met to end Metro's 19-day tr(...)
8/30/1974
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Five of eight signs held by workers during their strike last year at General Motors in Oshawa demand parity in pay with U.S. workers. The strikers wer(...)
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Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)
Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)
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Off the Job: Strikers make visible and vocal protests at Metro mail sorting plant in a August
9/20/1991
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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
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