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Title: Canada Action Network rally against free trade, Canada Place; UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] bus. [business] agent Jim Sinclair
Date: 1993-05-15
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Morris Anderson; John Stevens; Mike Darnell - @ B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] Convention
Date: 1975-11-10
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

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: Canada Action Network anti-free trade rally, Canada Place, with Ucluelet fish workers: Jim Sinclair
Date: 1993-05-15
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Canada Action Network anti-free trade rally, Canada Place, with Ucluelet fish workers: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] Local 49 member Bob Walton from Ucluelet
Date: 1993-05-15
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Morris Anderson; George Hewison; Ewan Sheard - @ B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] Convention
Date: 1974
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: SACTU [South African Congress of Trade Unions] 35th anniversary celebration, Maritime Centre with Peter Mahlangu - Jack Nichol, President, UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union]
Date: 1990-03-05

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: Vancouver District Labour Council rally against Bills 19, 20, IWA [International Woodworkers of America] Hall
Description: Emergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge
Show moreEmergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge campaign against Bill 19, the Industrial Relations Reform Act and Bill 20, the Teaching Profession Act.
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Date: 1987-04-05

Title: Federal labor minister John Munro at B.C. Federation [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photo shows federal labour minister John Munro (left) and IWA president Jack Munro at B.C. Federation of Labour convention platform.
Date: 1975-11-07

Title: Delegates speaking at Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] convention
Description: Photograph shows Marineworkers and Boilermakers Union secretary Walt Jacobs at the microphone.
Date: 1975-11-04

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: Vancouver Labour Council poll card mailing
Description: Photograph shows Frank Kennedy on the left, with Jim Thomas, campaign coordinator for a get-out-the-vote mailing for the upcoming Vancouver civic election. Campaign involved mailing 150,000 polling cards urging support for council candidates with the Committee of Progressive Electors, which the council helped form in 1968, and their allies.
Date: 1982-11-14

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: B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] elections - 21st convention, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Photograph shows BC Federation of Labour secretary Len Guy being applauded by delegates and B.C. Fed president George Johnston (right) following his re-election as secretary.
Date: 1976-11-19

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

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