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Signs of worrying times: Picketing postal workers and a roadside omen
Signs of worrying times: Picketing postal workers and a roadside omen

Signs of worrying times: Picketing postal workers and a roadside omen

Date10/25/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Signs of worrying times: Picketing postal workers and a roadside omen
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017247F
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Replacement workers keep their heads down as they are bused past striking postal workers and into the South Central plant on Eastern Ave
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Sharing shelter from the rain, striking postal workers Bob Johnson (left) and Art Langley picket the main postal building today while officials were b(...)
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