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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] rally protesting impending fisheries treaty with U.S.

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Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows Secretary-Treasurer George Hewison speaking.
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Grace Hartman, George Johnston opening CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] national convention

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Year: 1977
Description: Photograph shows George Johnston speaking.
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Nova Scotia Federation president Gerald Yetman at BC Fed convention [British Columbia Federation of Labour], Penticton

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Year: 1977
Description: Photo shows Gerald Yetman, president of Nova Scotia Federation of Labour, speaking to B.C. Federation of Labour delegates about the desperate state of unemployment in his home province.
Type: Still Image

IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] picket, Manpower office, Hastings and [Commercial]

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Year: 1978
Description: About fifty members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, many of them out of work because of the downturn in construction, picket outside the federal Unemployment Insurance offices in east Vancouver to focus attention on unemployment and the Citizen's Lobby for Jobs March 30.
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B.C. CP [Communist Party] convention, Plaza 500 - Vancouver

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Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows George Hewison (seated) and provincial leader Maurice Rush (speaking).
Type: Still Image

VLC [Vancouver Labor Council] secretary

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Year: 1978
Description: Vancouver and District Labour Council secretary Paddy Neale addresses Vancouver city council, outlining the VDLC's proposals for city action on jobs and requesting city council's endorsement of the Citizen's Lobby for Jobs. The council voted 6-4 to back the jobs lobby.
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