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Mail dispute forces jobless to line up for own cheques
Mail dispute forces jobless to line up for own cheques

Mail dispute forces jobless to line up for own cheques

Date5/27/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mail dispute forces jobless to line up for own cheques. Line-ups like this one have continued for the past two days at the Fort York Armory as nearly 7;500 persons picked up unemployment cheques. Payments to the 68;000 persons eligible for benefits in the Metro area were not mailed out because of the threat of a postal strike. Winnipeg postmen have already started a 24-hour walkout and strike at Windsor threatened to spread to other cities. Post office employees; who now earn from $102 to $129 a week; are demanding a 60-cent-an-hour increase over two years. Ottawa is offering 41 cents over 2 1/2 years. Since the threat of a major mail tie-up has loomed for days; officials have plans to open more cheque pick-up systems at Moss Park and Denison armories.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018377F
The Jobless line up for Unemployment Insurance cheques today in Moss Park Armory, one of two places where the cheques are being distributed while mail(...)
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Unemployed men line up at the Metro welfare office on Adelaide St
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