News clippings and two photographs concerning the seven-week shutdown of Belleville Public Library from late October 1986 over a contract dispute between employees and the library's board. Includes letters to the newspapers from local citizens in support of the staff and reports of the support received from Farley Mowat.
File contains newspaper article "Notice to Employers & Employees, at 12.01. a.m. on January 1, 1969 the new Ontario Employment Standards Act became law".
File contains an extensive newspaper insert from the Globe & Mail dated 3 May 1969 titled "The Winnipeg General Strike" about the 41 day strike in the spring of 1919 when 35,000 workers in Winnipeg went on strike.
File contains c.1968 newspaper clips on the Belelville District Labour Council supporting Mayor Scott on the industry mission dispute, and other miscellaneous clips on the Ontario Regulations.
File contains newspaper clippings about relocating the Unemployment Insurance Commission regional headquarters to Belleville and about building contractors vying for the job.
File contains newspaper clippings about G.A. Freeman becoming new president of the Stephens & Adam Co. and about the strike of Stephens & Adam Co employees.
File contains a c.1960 newspaper clip on Belleville's unemployment rate, and a c.1961 newspaper clip on Hastings County opening a winter works program to reduce unemployment.
File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume XLIX Number 4. This issue includes information about the “Family Compact”; Gilbert Purdy, a pioneer jack-of-all-trades; John Galt's Canadian Novels; A Wedding Trip of 1854; the Diary of Mahlon Burwell; and reports and news about the historical society.