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The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)
The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)

The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)

Date5/19/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend; began moving today as the men came back from holiday. The union called for ban on overtime work in a contract dispute with the government. The 27;000-member Council of Postal Unions has begun voting on a proposal to give its negotiating committee power to call a strike.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017193F
Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
7/30/1965
Shouts of jubilation - sure to be echoed by most of Metro's mail-less residents - fill te CNE's Coliseum (top) as Toronto postmen learn their vote tod(...)
Shouts of jubilation - sure to be echoed by most of Metro's mail-less residents - fill te CNE's Coliseum (top) as Toronto postmen learn their vote tod(...)
7/29/1965
Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices
Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices
10/23/1975
The backlog of mail piled up in Terminal A during the 11-day postal strike began to move today after maintenance workers lifted their picket lines. So(...)
The backlog of mail piled up in Terminal A during the 11-day postal strike began to move today after maintenance workers lifted their picket lines. So(...)
2/28/1975
In wildcat walkout in which about 300 Metro postmen left their jobs today to join a wave of similar walkouts in other Ontario areas, letter carriers p(...)
In wildcat walkout in which about 300 Metro postmen left their jobs today to join a wave of similar walkouts in other Ontario areas, letter carriers p(...)
11/15/1971
Slow Going: More than 2,000 anxious commuters line up at the Danforth Go station yesterday, hoping to get to work that way as the TTC strike began
Slow Going: More than 2,000 anxious commuters line up at the Danforth Go station yesterday, hoping to get to work that way as the TTC strike began
9/12/1991
Piled-up freight dwarfs lone man at CN Toronto depot, Businessmen are using all types of vehicles to get goods to trains
Piled-up freight dwarfs lone man at CN Toronto depot, Businessmen are using all types of vehicles to get goods to trains
4/22/1966
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
7/18/1968
The spring civic strike at City Hall, when the garbage bags were piled high in High Park and throughout the city, was one of many across the country
The spring civic strike at City Hall, when the garbage bags were piled high in High Park and throughout the city, was one of many across the country
4/25/1972
Striking postmen vote at Coliseum on whether or not to return to jobs, Outside they carried signs protesting Judge J
Striking postmen vote at Coliseum on whether or not to return to jobs, Outside they carried signs protesting Judge J
7/29/1965
Postmen struck the government
Postmen struck the government
7/28/1965
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
5/31/1976