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Abandon ship call came this afternoon when the Seafarers International Union seamen went on strike in their bid for a 40-hour week. These crewmen walk(...)
Abandon ship call came this afternoon when the Seafarers International Union seamen went on strike in their bid for a 40-hour week. These crewmen walk(...)

Abandon ship call came this afternoon when the Seafarers International Union seamen went on strike in their bid for a 40-hour week. These crewmen walk(...)

Date8/17/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Abandon ship call came this afternoon when the Seafarers International Union seamen went on strike in their bid for a 40-hour week. These crewmen walked off coal carrier Soodoc in Toronto harbor. Oil-carrier Elmbranch was the only other ship in Toronto affected by the strike. Four SIU-manned ships are due in Toronto tonight. Union will picket struck ships but not the Toronto waterfront; SIU spokesman said.
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Shipping Strike on the Great Lakes has tied up 40 ships and 1,120 seamen have walked out, according to estimates by the National Maritime Union. Here,(...)
Shipping Strike on the Great Lakes has tied up 40 ships and 1,120 seamen have walked out, according to estimates by the National Maritime Union. Here,(...)
8/16/1946
Seven Seamen Accused of desertion under Canada Shipping Act, when they walked off four ships at the Kingston elevators when the Seamen's Union called (...)
Seven Seamen Accused of desertion under Canada Shipping Act, when they walked off four ships at the Kingston elevators when the Seamen's Union called (...)
5/28/1946
Union members walk a picket line during the last railway strike, in 1973, when they were legislated back to work after 10 days. The chief union negoti(...)
Union members walk a picket line during the last railway strike, in 1973, when they were legislated back to work after 10 days. The chief union negoti(...)
8/14/1973
Released from the Welland County jail after being arrested in connection the shipping strike, these seamen are back at Thorold where the C.S.L. liner (...)
Released from the Welland County jail after being arrested in connection the shipping strike, these seamen are back at Thorold where the C.S.L. liner (...)
5/29/1946
Bail of $250 was asked by counsel for the 38 members of the Canadian Seamen's Union and a free lance photographer charged following a fracas aboard a (...)
Bail of $250 was asked by counsel for the 38 members of the Canadian Seamen's Union and a free lance photographer charged following a fracas aboard a (...)
5/1/1948
Pickets patrolling at locked gates to the Island ferry terminal, members of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, who went on strike at 7 a.m.(...)
Pickets patrolling at locked gates to the Island ferry terminal, members of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, who went on strike at 7 a.m.(...)
4/10/1972
Toronto rail yards west of Union Station lie quiet and deserted after 118,000 railwaymen across Canada went on strike to await settlement of contract dispute
Toronto rail yards west of Union Station lie quiet and deserted after 118,000 railwaymen across Canada went on strike to await settlement of contract dispute
8/26/1966
Protesting trusteeship clamped on Canadian maritime unions, members of the Seamon's International Union depart with their belongings from ship anchore(...)
Protesting trusteeship clamped on Canadian maritime unions, members of the Seamon's International Union depart with their belongings from ship anchore(...)
10/18/1963
Great Lakes Navigation, peaceful since last summer's strike, threatens to become stormy again with barring of some union representatives from ships. S(...)
Great Lakes Navigation, peaceful since last summer's strike, threatens to become stormy again with barring of some union representatives from ships. S(...)
7/5/1947
Department of Transport workers walks off the job in a wildcat strike at Toronto International Airport's control tower today. The 120 striking technic(...)
Department of Transport workers walks off the job in a wildcat strike at Toronto International Airport's control tower today. The 120 striking technic(...)
9/30/1969
Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
9/15/1991
Picket line manned by members of the International Typographical Union parades outside Star Building after walk- out of printers about 1 p.m. yesterday
Picket line manned by members of the International Typographical Union parades outside Star Building after walk- out of printers about 1 p.m. yesterday
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