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Estevan Mercury Flashback – Feb. 4, 1976

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Over 120 people representing various unions and workers organizations left Estevan on Feb. 2, 1976, to travel to Regina.

ESTEVAN — Over 120 people representing various unions and workers organizations left Estevan on Feb. 2, 1976, to travel to Regina where they joined approximately 3,000 others in a mass demonstration against wage controls in the province and throughout Canada.

The demonstration was classified as one of the largest ever in Saskatchewan.

The demonstrators met at the Exhibition Stadium and later on the Legislative grounds.

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