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Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)
Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)

Breaking through the line, University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers(...)

Date5/29/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Breaking through the line; University of Toronto police restrain pickets at the Robarts Library today as an employee arrives for work. Library workers have been on strike for a month to protest lack of progress in contract talks.
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Show of solidarity: Striking workers at the University of Toronto march to Queen's Park from simcoe Hall, then back to the campus where they paraded through the Robarts Library yesterday
Show of solidarity: Striking workers at the University of Toronto march to Queen's Park from simcoe Hall, then back to the campus where they paraded through the Robarts Library yesterday
3/12/1991
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
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11 October 1984
Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)
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4/26/1972
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2/5/1969
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One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
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Ontario hydro employee George Cole pickets the company's head office at 620 University Ave
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In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
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Man in coast, is being rushed out by a shirt-sleeved worker while a third man tries to stop him during the melee in Leaside. Disorder broke out when A.F. of L. Workers tried to pass C.I.O. pickets
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Checking off the names of postal workers manning the picket line outside the main post office building in Toronto today, union shop steward Clark Robi(...)
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