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Title: [Man holding a poster that says "Canada closed for the day" at the British Columbia Federation of Labour "Out to fight controls" demonstration]
Date: 1970-01-01 -- 1989-12-31
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] demonstration, Vancouver
Description: Delegates from B.C. Federation of Labour convention join march outside old courthouse at Georgia and Howe before marching through downtown streets in opposition to federal government's wage control program and strikebreaking at Canada Post.
Date: 1975-11-07

Title: Solidarity Coalition march and rally against Socred budget
Description: Close to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve
Show moreClose to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve Gidora at rally in Queen Elizabeth Plaza.
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Date: 1983-10-15

Title: Solidarity Coalition march and rally against Socred budget
Description: Close to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve
Show moreClose to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve Gidora at rally in Queen Elizabeth Plaza.
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Date: 1983-10-15

Title: Picketing of anti-union seminar
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour affiliates picket two-day employers seminar by New York-based firm Advanced Management Research at Hotel Vancouver, billed as "Strategies for Preserving Non-Union Status." The seminar, held in secret after being moved from a previously-booked hotel, attracted numerous large employers, including Honeywell, Merit Oil and
Show moreB.C. Federation of Labour affiliates picket two-day employers seminar by New York-based firm Advanced Management Research at Hotel Vancouver, billed as "Strategies for Preserving Non-Union Status." The seminar, held in secret after being moved from a previously-booked hotel, attracted numerous large employers, including Honeywell, Merit Oil and Royal Insurance.
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Date: 1978-06-20

Title: Vancouver Island labour council, B.C. Coalition of Unemployment jobs rally at legislature
Description: ThePacific Tribunereports that some 2,000 participants marched through Victoria to the provincial legislature, joining about 60 trekkers, some of whom had walked all the way from Campbell River, in one of the largest jobless demonstrations in post-war BC. Demonstrations protested Social Credit government labour policies leading up to a provincial
Show moreThePacific Tribunereports that some 2,000 participants marched through Victoria to the provincial legislature, joining about 60 trekkers, some of whom had walked all the way from Campbell River, in one of the largest jobless demonstrations in post-war BC. Demonstrations protested Social Credit government labour policies leading up to a provincial election on May 5. Organization of Unemployed Workers spokesperson Bill Massey at mike.
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Date: 1983-04-09

Title: Vancouver Island labour council, B.C. Coalition of Unemployment jobs rally at legislature
Description: ThePacific Tribunereports that some 2,000 participants marched through Victoria to the provincial legislature, joining about 60 trekkers, some of whom had walked all the way from Campbell River, in one of the largest jobless demonstrations in post-war BC. Demonstrations protested Social Credit government labour policies leading up to a provincial
Show moreThePacific Tribunereports that some 2,000 participants marched through Victoria to the provincial legislature, joining about 60 trekkers, some of whom had walked all the way from Campbell River, in one of the largest jobless demonstrations in post-war BC. Demonstrations protested Social Credit government labour policies leading up to a provincial election on May 5. Organization of Unemployed Workers spokesperson Bill Massey at mike.
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Date: 1983-04-09

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] demonstration, Vancouver
Description: Delegates from B.C. Federation of Labour convention join march outside old courthouse at Georgia and Howe before marching through downtown streets in opposition to federal government's wage control program and strikebreaking at Canada Post.
Date: 1975-11-07

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] demonstration, Vancouver
Description: Delegates from B.C. Federation of Labour convention join march outside old courthouse at Georgia and Howe before marching through downtown streets in opposition to federal government's wage control program and strikebreaking at Canada Post.
Date: 1975-11-07

Title: Day of Protest against wage controls - rally - Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Plaza
Date: 1976-10-14

Title: Day of Protes against wage controls - rally - Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Plaza
Description: Photograph shows Paddy Neale, secretary of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, at the microphone.
Date: 1976-10-14

Title: Day of Protest against wage controls - rally - Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Plaza
Description: Photograph shows George Johnston, president of the BC Federation of Labour, at the microphone.
Date: 1976-10-14

Title: Day of Protest against wage controls - rally - Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Plaza
Description: Photograph shows folksinger and United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union organizer George Hewison, singing to the rally.
Date: 1976-10-14