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Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal work(...)
Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal work(...)

Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal work(...)

Date2/14/1969
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  • Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal workers have complained about poor working conditions at the terminal.
  • Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal work(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal workers have complained about poor working conditions at the terminal.
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