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About 1,000 garment workers marched through the downtown fashion district streets today after walking off their jobs and shutting down 19 factories in(...)
About 1,000 garment workers marched through the downtown fashion district streets today after walking off their jobs and shutting down 19 factories in(...)

About 1,000 garment workers marched through the downtown fashion district streets today after walking off their jobs and shutting down 19 factories in(...)

Date9/15/1986
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  • About 1;000 garment workers marched through the downtown fashion district streets today after walking off their jobs and shutting down 19 factories in a contract dispute. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union is seeking higher wages and a continuing pension plan.
  • About 1,000 garment workers marched through the downtown fashion district streets today after walking off their jobs and shutting down 19 factories in(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: About 1;000 garment workers marched through the downtown fashion district streets today after walking off their jobs and shutting down 19 factories in a contract dispute. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union is seeking higher wages and a continuing pension plan.
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      About 1,500 Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union demontrated yesterday in the heart of the garment district on Spadina Ave., to urge limits on clothing imports. [Incomplete]
      About 1,500 Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union demontrated yesterday in the heart of the garment district on Spadina Ave., to urge limits on clothing imports. [Incomplete]
      Darrell, Dick
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      Production lines have been virtually deserted at Metro's de Havilland aircraft plant since 900 production workers walked off their jobs on Jan. 20, 19(...)
      De Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada, Limited
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      Goode, Jeff
      4/9/1984
      Gay apparel: Among the 1,000 homosexual rights supporters who marched through downtown Toronto yesterday were these members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
      Gay apparel: Among the 1,000 homosexual rights supporters who marched through downtown Toronto yesterday were these members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
      Brazao, Dale
      6/26/1983
      When workers pour in and out of offices, stores and factories at the same times each working day the result is surging crowds of pedestrians and traff(...)
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      Bull, Ron
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      Spremo, Boris
      10/29/1990
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      Goode, Jeff
      9/30/1974
      Long-term factory workers are taken through the shock and pain of job loss, taught how to look for work, counselled as to career changes they canmake, or helped in choosing a retraining program
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      Mahler, John
      8/13/1982
      Last shift. Striking railway workers walk off their jobs at the CPR John St. yards on their way to the picket line as the strike spread rapidly across(...)
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Striking workers from Toronto Western Hospital protest at Queen's Park today, vowing to camp on the lawn of the Legislature until they get their jobs (...)
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Faught, Ken
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      A chorus of thighs. Pierre Cardin, the Paris designer with 346 factories employing 70,000 people, introduced thigh-high fashions in his spring line la(...)
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      Cardin, Pierre, 1922-
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