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    • Hamilton: The Workers’ City
    • The Birth of Local 5
    • From Depression to War
    • A New Era
    • Austerity and Struggle
    • The Fight Continues
    • The New Century
    • Looking Forward, Moving Ahead
  • Timeline
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    • Historical Photos
    • Video Gallery
    • 100th Anniversary 2018 Audio Clips
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100th postcard
Hamilton, County Wentworth. Drawing by C. S. Rice. Published by Rice & Duncan, 1859. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A group of workers outside a local factory, 1893. Courtesy of McMaster University Labour Studies Archives.
Workers march down James Street during a Nine-Hour League parade, 1892. Courtesy of McMaster University Labour Studies Archives.
Outside workers laying pavement in Hamilton,1911. Courtesy of McMaster University Labour Studies Archives
Stelco blast furnace workers faced some of the worst working conditions in the Hamilton area, Date unknown. Courtesy of McMaster University Labour Studies Archives.
Hamilton’s 91st Highlanders say goodbye as they leave for Europe, 1914. Courtesy of the Local History & Archives Department, Hamilton Public Library.
While labor unrest swept the country, the city boasted about its high employment and lack of strikes, 1919. Courtesy of Labor News.
Samuel Lawrence, veteran labour leader and mayor of Hamilton from 1944 to 1949, standing in his office at City Hall, 1948. Courtesy of The Hamilton Spectator Collection, Local History & Archives Department, Hamilton Public Library.
A poem written by a garbage worker in Hoot Civic News, September 1934. Courtesy of Hoot Civic News.
Local 5 Charter, 1944. Courtesy of CUPE Local 5167.
Local 167 Charter, 1944. Courtesy of CUPE Local 5167.
NUPE Local 167 Charter, 1944. Courtesy of CUPE Local 5167.
The Hamilton Labour Temple, 1948. Courtesy of McMaster University Labour Studies Archives.
Local 5 members Cliff Thompson and Robert Braid on the job, ca. 1955. Courtesy of Ed Thomas.
News Five Revived Cover, March 1995
The Outsider Cover
Employees working in the addressograph department at Hamilton's old city hall, 1949. Courtesy of The Hamilton Spectator Collection, Local History & Archives Department, Hamilton Public Library.
Local 167’s A.C. Purnell, H. Barker, R. Gillispie, and D. McEntee (the four men standing to the left) sell tickets to help striking Consumers Glass workers, ca. 1955. Courtesy of the Hamilton and District Labour Council fonds, William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University.
Local 5 mechanics, ca. 1955. Courtesy of Ed Thomas.
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