Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

: B.C. Peace Council lobby to Victoria; Photo shows delegation waiting in the Legislative lobby before meeting with NDP government caucus.

: Truckers protest in Abbotsford; Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

: Truckers protest in Abbotsford; Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

: Truckers protest in Abbotsford; Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

: Truckers protest in Abbotsford; Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

: Truckers protest rally, Surrey; Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

: Don McGill, Teamsters, Local 213 president; Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down. Photograph shows Teamsters Local 213 president Don McGill speaking to truckers' rally in Surrey.

: Tim Buck memorial meeting - Julius Stelp and Tom McEwen; Veteran members of the Communist Party of Canada, including founding members Tom McEwen (prev Ewen) at right and Julius Stelp; Israel Levine and (partly out of photo) Harold Pritchett, at memorial meeting for long-time CP of Canada leader Tim Buck at Templeton High School Auditorium, Vancouver.

: Public meeting, Carlos Elvira; Public meeting in Vancouver's Ironworkers Hall for Carlos Elvira, (centre) representative of Spanish underground union movement Workers Commissions, who spent 23 years in Franco prison. With him is his interpreter Iobil Alonso (right) and meeting chair, Vancouver surgeon Alan Inglis.

: May Day rally, City Hall - Jean Pare; Speaking is Jean Paré, Quebec vice-president of United Electrical Workers.

: Cesar Chavez at B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] press conference; United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez was in Vancouver to promote a renewed boycott of California grapes in response to the action by the Teamsters Union in California, which signed sweetheart agreements with growers immediately following expiry of UFW collective agreements.

: Cesar Chavez at B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] press conference - with George Johnston, B.C. Fed president; United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez was in Vancouver to promote a renewed boycott of California grapes in response to the action by the Teamsters Union in California, which signed sweetheart agreements with growers immediately following expiry of UFW collective agreements.

: CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] picket at Quarry House Restaurant; CUPE Local 1004 members picket the Quarry House Restaurant in Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Park to protest firing of six union members who were sacked for union organizing.

: CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] picket at Quarry House Restaurant; CUPE Local 1004 members picket the Quarry House Restaurant in Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Park to protest firing of six union members who were sacked for union organizing.

: Pickets, Shopper's Drug Mart, Thurlow & Robson; Trade unionists picket outside strikebound Shoppers' Drug Mart store on Robson street in Vancouver as company continued its efforts to obtain an injunction that would prevent B.C. Federation of Labour affiliates from "secondary picketing" in support of striking members of the Retail Clerks. Labour's demand for the removal of injunctions from labour disputes had been a key issue in the election of the NDP government of Dave Barrett the previous year.

: Pickets, Shopper's Drug Mart, Thurlow & Robson; Trade unionists picket outside strikebound Shoppers' Drug Mart store on Robson street in Vancouver as company continued its efforts to obtain an injunction that would prevent B.C. Federation of Labour affiliates from "secondary picketing" in support of striking members of the Retail Clerks. Labour's demand for the removal of injunctions from labour disputes had been a key issue in the election of the NDP government of Dave Barrett the previous year.

: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] strike July 6/73; Launch of UFAWU industry-wide strike July 6, 1973. Photo shows picketers at Canadian Fishing Company Home plant. The strike marked a major victory for women shoreworkers who won the right to equal pay over the term of the two-year contract that was signed a week later.

: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] strike July 6/73; Launch of UFAWU industry-wide strike July 6, 1973. Photo shows picketers at Canadian Fishing Company Home plant. The strike marked a major victory for women shoreworkers who won the right to equal pay over the term of the two-year contract that was signed a week later.

: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] strike July 6/73; Launch of UFAWU industry-wide strike July 6, 1973. Photo shows picketers at Canadian Fishing Company Home plant. The strike marked a major victory for women shoreworkers who won the right to equal pay over the term of the two-year contract that was signed a week later.

: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] strike July 6/73; Launch of UFAWU industry-wide strike July 6, 1973. Photo shows picketers at Canadian Fishing Company Home plant. The strike marked a major victory for women shoreworkers who won the right to equal pay over the term of the two-year contract that was signed a week later.

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