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Two Pearson International Airport skycaps who accused Allcap Baggage Service of running a job-selling racket have been fired and others threatened wit(...)
Two Pearson International Airport skycaps who accused Allcap Baggage Service of running a job-selling racket have been fired and others threatened wit(...)

Two Pearson International Airport skycaps who accused Allcap Baggage Service of running a job-selling racket have been fired and others threatened wit(...)

Date3/13/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Two Pearson International Airport skycaps who accused Allcap Baggage Service of running a job-selling racket have been fired and others threatened with dismissal. Hilroy Charles told The Star last week how porters are forced to pay $80 a week for the right to carry luggage. He was fired on Saturday after eight years as a skycap.
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0002934F
    Unhappy skycap: Hilroy Charles, a skycap at Pearson Terminal 2, says porters are sometimes left with as little as $1 an hour after paying Allcap Baggage $16 a day to work at the airport
    Unhappy skycap: Hilroy Charles, a skycap at Pearson Terminal 2, says porters are sometimes left with as little as $1 an hour after paying Allcap Baggage $16 a day to work at the airport
    McConnell, Colin
    3/13/1986
    Solo protest: Hilroy Charles, fired as a porter by Allcap Baggage Service Saturday after revealing its pay-to-work scheme to The Star, picketed at Pearson International Airport yesterday
    Solo protest: Hilroy Charles, fired as a porter by Allcap Baggage Service Saturday after revealing its pay-to-work scheme to The Star, picketed at Pearson International Airport yesterday
    Slaughter, Mike
    3/17/1986
    Nose for Narcotics: Canada Customs handler Chris Sharpe and Blue, a 2-year-old yellow Lab, search baggage-carrying trams for drugs at Pearson International Airport
    Nose for Narcotics: Canada Customs handler Chris Sharpe and Blue, a 2-year-old yellow Lab, search baggage-carrying trams for drugs at Pearson International Airport
    Stuparyk, Michael
    3/17/1991
    It was a two-hour delay for some passengers waiting to collect baggage at Toronto International Airport's Terminal 2 last night as baggage handlers be(...)
    It was a two-hour delay for some passengers waiting to collect baggage at Toronto International Airport's Terminal 2 last night as baggage handlers be(...)
    Slaughter, Mike
    7/16/1978
    Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
    Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    1/29/1986
    Carrying their own Baggage, passengers head toward a plane at Toronto International Airport today after baggage handlers begana 24-hours strike agains(...)
    Carrying their own Baggage, passengers head toward a plane at Toronto International Airport today after baggage handlers begana 24-hours strike agains(...)
    Barkley, Harold
    7/17/1971
    The executive director of the Toronto Humane Society has been fired less than two months after taking the job created for him. Stephen Best, who was working on a monthly contract, said yesterday he was shocked by the decision dismissing him from $45,000-a-year position.
    The executive director of the Toronto Humane Society has been fired less than two months after taking the job created for him. Stephen Best, who was working on a monthly contract, said yesterday he was shocked by the decision dismissing him from $45,000-a-year position.
    Mahler, John
    2/24/1986
    Skycap at Toronto airport. $2.25 an hour plus tips
    Skycap at Toronto airport. $2.25 an hour plus tips
    Norris, Dave
    12/22/1974
    Mrs. Lester Pearson curtseys to Queen Elizabeth at Uplands Airport, Ottawa, and Canada's birthday celebrations are officially under way. Others greeti(...)
    Mrs. Lester Pearson curtseys to Queen Elizabeth at Uplands Airport, Ottawa, and Canada's birthday celebrations are officially under way. Others greeti(...)
    Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022
    6/29/1967
    Grounded by strike of Air Canada baggage handlers, stranded airline passengers pack the ticket area of Terminal 1 at Toronto International Airport las(...)
    Grounded by strike of Air Canada baggage handlers, stranded airline passengers pack the ticket area of Terminal 1 at Toronto International Airport las(...)
    Brazao, Dale
    8/26/1978
    New baggage scanners at airport, for international flites, bags are checked before check-in, thus carry-on and checked bags are both scanned. New scanners are larger than old ones
    New baggage scanners at airport, for international flites, bags are checked before check-in, thus carry-on and checked bags are both scanned. New scanners are larger than old ones
    Beaty, Keith
    11/25/1985
    A long, lonely wait, Her dream of a new life shattered, Anna Maria DeGandler sits on a bench at Toronto International Airport, waiting for a baggage h(...)
    A long, lonely wait, Her dream of a new life shattered, Anna Maria DeGandler sits on a bench at Toronto International Airport, waiting for a baggage h(...)
    Brennan, Pat
    10/16/1974