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26 April 2024  
 

Provincial Solidarities

Hot Cargo, 1979

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title: Hot Cargo

Description: These stickers and buttons were widely distributed among unions in Canada as part of the NO CANDU campaign.

Source: Group for the Defence of Civil Rights in Argentina fonds, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

Title: To Those Who Helped

Description: “TO THOSE WHO HELPED CLOSE THE HARBOUR * IN SUPPORT OF CIVIL RIGHTS FOR THE ARGENTINIAN PEOPLE” . This painting by Richard Peachey was presented to the Saint John and District Labour Council by the NO CANDU Committee in recognition of their solidarity with the workers of Argentina. The painting includes Jimmy Orr, Ronald McLeod, Larry Hanley, Harvey Watson, David Brown, Enrique Tabak and others. The painting is now on display at the W. Franklin Hatheway Labour Exhibit Centre, Rockwood Park, Saint John.

Source: Barry Robson, George Vair, Saint John and District Labour Council.

Title: Solidarity

Description: Enrique Tabak (centre) of the NO CANDU campaign, with Saint John longshoremen Jimmy Orr (left) and Ronald McLeod (right) in Saint John harbour, 3 July 1979.

Source: Enrique Tabak.

Title: Pas de CANDU

Description: Larry Hanley (second from right), President of the Saint John and District Labour Council with Don Lee, Ontario Federation of Labour (left), Mercedes Bonorino (second from left) and Linda Grobovsky (right), NO CANDU Committee.

Source: Le Travailleur canadien, 27 July 1979, p. 4.

Title: Presentation

Description: The painting “To Those Who Helped” was presented to Saint John and District Labour Council President Larry Hanley by Linda Grobovsky of the Group for the Defence of Civil Rights in Argentina at a public event at the Steelworkers' Hall in Toronto in September 1979.

Source: Enrique Tabak.

Title: No Hot Cargo (Lines You Don't Cross)

Description: Singer Nancy White wrote a popular song with a rousing chorus, “No Hot Cargo for Argentina!” , and a message of solidarity: “there's lines you just don't cross” .

Source: Enrique Tabak.