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Jobless pickets at Cullen luncheon, Hotel Vancouver
Year: 1978
Description: Unemployed picket at luncheon for Employment and Immigration Minister Bud Cullen at Hotel Vancouver, calling on him to scrap proposed changes to UI regulations that would deny benefits to thousands more jobless.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] rally protesting impending fisheries treaty with U.S.
Year: 1978
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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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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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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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CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] demonstration outside Vancouver post office, on national protest
Year: 1979
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CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] demonstration outside Vancouver post office, on national protest
Year: 1979
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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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Vegetable growers demonstration [in] Cloverdale demanding income plan
Year: 1978
Description: Travelling in a convoy of tractors, 200 Fraser Valley vegetable farmers protest outside the provincial agricultural department office in Cloverdale, demanding that the province provide a meaningful income assurance program for vegetable farmers that would take into account the actual costs of production. B.C. Federation of Agriculture president Pat Hibbert is in the lead tractor, at right.
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Vegetable growers demonstration [in] Cloverdale demanding income plan
Year: 1978
Description: Travelling in a convoy of tractors, 200 Fraser Valley vegetable farmers protest outside the provincial agricultural department office in Cloverdale, demanding that the province provide a meaningful income assurance program for vegetable farmers that would take into account the actual costs of production.
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Vegetable growers demonstration [in] Cloverdale demanding income plan
Year: 1978
Description: Travelling in a convoy of tractors, 200 Fraser Valley vegetable farmers protest outside the provincial agricultural department office in Cloverdale, demanding that the province provide a meaningful income assurance program for vegetable farmers that would take into account the actual costs of production.
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Vegetable growers demonstration [in] Cloverdale demanding income plan
Year: 1978
Description: Travelling in a convoy of tractors, 200 Fraser Valley vegetable farmers protest outside the provincial agricultural department office in Cloverdale, demanding that the province provide a meaningful income assurance program for vegetable farmers that would take into account the actual costs of production. B.C. Federation of Agriculture president Pat Hibbert is speaking from the tractor, at upper right.
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