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Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver

Year: 1986

Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Solidarity march with Central America, U.S. consulate

Year: 1986

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Anti-apartheid network rally outside Expo during Thatcher visit

Year: 1986

Description: Trade unionists and other activists demonstrate outside main gate of Expo 86 during visit by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher whose Conservative government refused to adopt sanctions against apartheid regime in South Africa.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

International Women's Day march and rally

Year: 1986

Description: Shown addressing the International Women's Day rally is South African anti-apartheid activist Jesse Duarte, a representative of the Transvaal Women's Federation and the International Democratic Front.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Carpenters skit, demonstration re: CMHC [Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation] low bid policy on First United [Church] housing project

Year: 1984

Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image