Operating their own factory in Ajax, after they lost their jobs in the shutdown of the Dunlop of Canada Ltd

Original Toronto Star caption: Operating their own factory in Ajax; after they lost their jobs in the shutdown of the Dunlop of Canada Ltd. plant in Toronto last May; Phil Japp (second from right); 43; and Walter Merkel (right) check production line. With three other partners they are turning out rubber escalator handrails; one of many products Dunlop claimed it could not make profit on when it closed down its Queen St. plant.