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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] pickets, Canadian Fish, Campbell Avenue plant
Year: 1978
Description: UFAWU shoreworkers picket at Canadian Fish Home plant in support of four-day tendermen's strike that was successful in winning a pace-setting agreement, the first since the expiry of wage controls.
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NHB [National Harbours Board] pickets (ILWU [International Longshore and Warehouse Union])
Year: 1978
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NHB [National Harbours Board] pickets (ILWU [International Longshore and Warehouse Union])
Year: 1978
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Labour folksinger Tom Hawken in concert
Year: 1979
Description: Labour folksinger Tom Hawken performing at concert at Plaza 500 Ballroom marking 30th anniversary of B.C. Peace Council.
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Labour folksinger Tom Hawken in concert
Year: 1979
Description: Labour folksinger Tom Hawken performing at concert at Plaza 500 Ballroom marking 30th anniversary of B.C. Peace Council.
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Prices conference, Vancouver Public Library - Emil Bjarnason, Director of Trade Union Research Bureau
Year: 1974
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] protest on day of reopened Combines hearings, Vancouver Hotel
Year: 1979
Description: Members and supporters of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union demonstrate outside the hearings at the Hotel Vancouver to protest the Combines Branch renewed investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union…
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Re-opening of Combines hearings
Year: 1979
Description: Federal officers guard the hearing room door in the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union officers refused to answer questions…
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Re-opening of Combines hearings
Year: 1979
Description: United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union past president Homer Stevens (left), president Jack Nichol and secretary George Hewison confer outside the hearing room at the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the…
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Maritime unions picketing Otto Lang meeting at Hotel Vancouver
Year: 1979
Description: Members of maritime unions, including the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union, the Seafarers International Union and the Merchant Service Guild demonstrate outside federal transport minister Otto Lang's meeting at the Hotel Vancouver. They were protesting the government's anti-national shipping policies and its continued refusal to initiate a merchant vessel shipbuilding program.
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Maritime unions picketing Otto Lang meeting at Hotel Vancouver
Year: 1979
Description: Members of maritime unions, including the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union, the Seafarers International Union and the Merchant Service Guild demonstrate outside federal transport minister Otto Lang's meeting at the Hotel Vancouver. They were protesting the government's anti-national shipping policies and its continued refusal to initiate a merchant vessel shipbuilding program.
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Maritime unions picketing Otto Lang meeting at Hotel Vancouver
Year: 1979
Description: Members of maritime unions, including the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union, the Seafarers International Union and the Merchant Service Guild demonstrate outside federal transport minister Otto Lang's meeting at the Hotel Vancouver. They were protesting the government's anti-national shipping policies and its continued refusal to initiate a merchant vessel shipbuilding program.
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