LABOUR DAY: An 1872 printers’ strike in Toronto over demands for a nine-hour workday led to a protest march that swelled to 10,000 people. he event, memorialized by a historical plaque at Queen’s Park, was seminal in the history of the Canadian labour movement, leading the country’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, to push for the legal recognition of organized labour. thestar/business/2014/09/01/the_start_of_the_march.html
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