The Fight against Wage Controls, 1975-1976
ILLUSTRATIONS
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Title: Day of Protest, 14 October 1976, Saint John.
Description: King Street is filled as the demonstration moves down the hill from King's Square to City Hall.
Source: Saint John District Labour Council.
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Title: George Vair, Day of Protest, 14 October 1976.
Description: Labour Council President George Vair speaks in front of City Hall, Saint John. Standing to the right are protest coordinator Larry Hanley, Donald Montgomery of the Canadian Labour Congress and Paul LePage of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour.
Source: Saint John District Labour Council.
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Title: March from Saint John East, 14 October 1976.
Description: Protestors who had gathered at the Dry Dock march along Bayside Drive on their way to King's Square.
Source: Saint John District Labour Council.
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Title: The Struggle against Wage Controls, 1975-1976.
Description: A personal account by Saint John labour activist George Vair of how workers in one New Brunswick industrial community mobilized to defend their unions and defeat the wage controls imposed by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Source: Canadian Committee on Labour History.
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