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Protestors holding banners
- Part Of
- Harry Clairmont fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 32
- Item
- 9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1933
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- On July 11, 1933 over 15,000 people (mostly Jewish and working class) walked off the job to protest Nazism, fascism, and other human rights issues. Reported in the Globe and Mail as the largest protest of its kind in Canada since the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, a united front of all the needle trade unions and over fifty Jewish organizations took part.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a group of male and female demonstrators holding banners at an International Left Opposition demonstration. This photo was likely taken during the large anti-fascist demonstration in Toronto on July 11, 1933.
- Name Access
- International Left Opposition
- Subjects
- Anti-fascist movements
- Banners
- Demonstrations
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See also accession #1988-4/8 for a broadside notice for this strike and demonstration. For additional images of this protest see Fonds 32, items 6, 8, 11, 13, and 15.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-11-18
- Source
- Archival Descriptions