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Strangle hold
Strangle hold

Strangle hold

Date6/24/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Strangle hold: A policeman; right rear; reaches around another officer; almost choking him; right front; to grab striker Larry Matthews; left; by the neck at the Oshawa main mail depot. Wild melees marred picket lines in Oshawa and Whitby yesterday when mail strikers clashed with police.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017280F
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