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Title: Grain workers pickets UGG [United Grain Growers Limited]
Description: Grainworkers set up pickets outside United Grain Growers Elevators on Vancouver's waterfront as company locked them out Aug. 26. Although the Perry Report, prepared by a federal conciliator in the dispute, was accepted by the Grain Workers Union, it was rejected by the companies.
Date: 1974-08-26

Title: Grain workers pickets UGG [United Grain Growers Limited]
Description: Grainworkers set up pickets outside United Grain Growers Elevators on Vancouver's waterfront as company locked them out Aug. 26. Although the Perry Report, prepared by a federal conciliator in the dispute, was accepted by the Grain Workers Union, it was rejected by the companies.
Date: 1974-08-26

Title: B.C. Federation of Labor convention - ILWU [International Longshore and Warehouse Union] - Harvey Elder (far left), Don Garcia (center), Frank Kennedy (far right)
Date: 1974-11-08

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: Combines investigators in UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] offices (Oct. 31)
Date: 1975-10-31

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photograph shows B.C. Federation of Labour president George Johnston speaking from the podium.
Date: 1975-11-03

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photograph shows IWA president Jack Munro to the right and B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Len Guy at the podium, left.
Date: 1975-11-03

Title: Delegates speaking at Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photograph shows Canadian Paperworkers vice-president Art Gruntman speaking at the microphone, with delegates lined up behind him.
Date: 1975-11-04

Title: Delegates speaking at Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Date: 1975-11-04

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photograph shows B.C. Provincial Council of Carpenters secretary Lorne Robson at the microphone, with delegates lined up at the mike behind him.
Date: 1975-11-03

Title: Opening sessions, B.C. Federation of Labor convention, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Photograph shows B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Len Guy speaking at the microphone, with delegates lined up behind him.
Date: 1975-11-03

Title: Opening sessions, B.C. Federation of Labor convention, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Photo shows Colin Gabelmann at the podium.
Date: 1975-11-03

Title: Delegates speaking at Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photograph shows United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union secretary George Hewison speaking.
Date: 1975-11-04

Title: Dale Van Pelt (UFWA co-ordinator) at B.C. Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
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: Federal labor minister John Munro at B.C. Federation [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour convention delegate holds up sign in protest during speech by federal labour minister John Munro.
Date: 1975-11-07

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