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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-08-20 SUMMARY: Al Parkin discusses the history of trade unions in the B.C. forest industry, and particularly the role of the so-called "loggers' navy" in union organization on the B.C. coast in the 1930s and 1940s.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alice Person : rank and file -- women's issues in the wood industry RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1978-07-28 SUMMARY: Mrs. Person has been active in the IWA. She moved to Websters Corners from the prairies during the Depression; got a job in the wood industry during the war; and was active in organizing her plant. She became a member of the plant executive. She discusses relief; agricultural labour during the Depression; the Japanese internment; working conditions in wood; organizing the IWA and her plant; equal pay for equal work; attitudes to women workers; struggles against layoffs after the war. She and her sister were in the first group of women to be hired on at Hammond Cedar in 1942. Mrs. Person, although told by co-workers that "girls don't need as much", decided that equal pay was a woman's right, and this issue became a primary motivation for her and other women to join the union. She feels that many workers were inspired by the IWA leadership. Mrs. Person served as a steward and a warden on the executive.

CALL NUMBER: T1146:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: Press conference about the Workers' Compensation Board RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 197702-16 & 03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Labour minister Allan Williams announces the firing of the Workers' Compensation Board, 16-Feb-1977. TRACK 2: Williams press conference following a meeting with the BC Federation of Labour; also, reaction of Len Guy, BCFL secretary, 17-Mar-1977. CALL NUMBER: T1146:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: Press conference about the Workers' Compensation and the Revelstoke dam RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977-02-17 & 28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Labour minister Allan Williams names the new Workers' Compensation Board, 17-Feb-1977. TRACK 2: Williams says he will not stop preparatory work on the Revelstoke Dam. Also, Williams reacts with surprise to the initial position of the IWA on their upcoming contract talks, 28-Feb-1977. CALL NUMBER: T1146:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: Press conference on labour and Native land claims RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977-03-01 & 04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Labour minister Allan Williams comments on a meeting with the BC Federation of Labour, and expresses his opposition to provincial wage controls, 01-Mar-1977. TRACK 2: Williams comments on the subject of the native land claims of the Stuart-Trembleur Indians, 04-Mar-1977. CALL NUMBER: T1146:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: News conference regarding "cut off lands" RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977-03-17 & 18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Labour minister Allan Williams discusses an upcoming meeting with Native groups about "cut off lands", 17-Mar-1977. TRACK 2: News conference following the first-ever meeting between federal government, provincial government and Native groups on the subject of native land claims relating to the "cut off lands" question, 18-Mar-1977: Philip Joe, Warren Allmand, and Allan Williams. CALL NUMBER: T1146:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: On unemployment and Revelstoke dam appeal RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977-04-14 & 21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Labour minister Allan Williams comments on continuing high unemployment, 14-Apr-1977. TRACK 2: Williams on the appeal by SPEC concerning the Revelstoke Dam, 21-Apr-1977. CALL NUMBER: T1146:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: Discusses Bill 92 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977-10-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In a news conference, Allan Williams announces the introduction of Bill 92, the Essential Services Disputes Act, and details its provisions, 19-Oct-1977. TRACK 2: Williams discusses the provisions of Bill 92 in a press conference. He emphasizes that the Bill is not intended to affect the private sector, but to prevent strikes and lockouts in the public sector, 19-Oct-1977. CALL NUMBER: T1146:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams: Discusses Revelstoke dam project and Nisga'a land claims RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977 & 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In a news conference, Labour Minster Allan Williams announces that the Revelstoke Dam project will be allowed to proceed under BC Hydro direction. He details the functions and responsibilities of the various officials, organizations and committees involved in the project. He also suggests the creation of an organization independent of BC Hydro to estimate energy requirements, and that existing energy legislation be reviewed; 12-Sep-1977. TRACK 2: At a Federal-Provincial Labour Ministers conference, Williams releases the provincial government position on Nisga'a land claims. B.C. takes the position that aboriginal title does not exist. Williams discusses in general the status of Indians in B.C. and states that Indians themselves must be involved in any solutions. He states that it is the provincial government's responsibility to make the Indians' future a more equitable one; 25-Jan-1978.

CALL NUMBER: T0542:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Production Superintendent for Canadian Forest Products PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1975 RECORDED: Beaver Cove (B.C.), 1974-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Art Newman discusses: techniques and skills in hand falling, 1930; predominance of Scandinavians in falling, 1930s; importance of Scandinavians in organizing the IWA; responsibility of the bull buckers in setting prices and contract rates, 1930-1964; the process of setting contract rates and production priorities; becomes a bull bucker, 1946. Talks about problems of the bull bucker: quality, accident prevention, costs and production. Dealing with men. Qualities of a good faller. Differences in falling small and large timber. The faller's "mistake book". Type and frequency of accidents. Coming to Nimpkish, 1946. Accepting responsibilities in the logging industry. The making of a supervisor. TRACK 2: Art Newman discusses: his move to Woss camp, 1946; logging sites surrounding Woss camp 1946-47; life in Nimpkish camp, 1946-60; getting assistance to the camps in emergencies; family life in Nimpkish; recreation and community activities; problems with alcohol; logging methods during late 1940s; sizes of settings, 1940-70s; transition from hand falling to power saw falling, 1935-50; changes in amounts of timber cut per man per day, 1930-75. Talks about his acquisition of logging knowledge. CALL NUMBER: T0542:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Production Superintendent for Canadian Forest Products PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1974 RECORDED: Beaver Cove (B.C.), 1974-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reasons for changeover to railway/truck logging from strictly railway logging. Description of Russell Mills. Membership in the IWA, 1942-46. Changes in the IWA union, 1946-74. Communist influence of IWA, 1945-50. [TRACK 2: blank.; end of interview.]

News item. Interview, and shots of logs being lifting from booming grounds into a barker at BC Forest Products's Sooke Division.

News item. IWA president Jack Munro is interviewed on an open-line radio program. He says wage and price controls are not working, and that the Day of Protest is to register disapproval with the federal government's "unjust law." The Anti-Inflation Board is too drastic a measure, and that is why Trudeau is backing down on the length of time it will be in effect.

News item. IWA is on strike for better wages and working conditions. CUPE Local 606 supports the IWA. Rally includes elementary school children. Placards read: "Get back to the bargaining table"; "Why stay if you don't like the pay?"; "Help the needy not the greedy". CUPE's support of the IWA is keeping children out of school -- some parents object.

Files and notebook relating to industrial arbitrations undertaken by Sloan as arbitrator including arbitration of the 1954 national railway dispute. Unit contains one file on the Sommers case, 1957 and one file of correspondence regarding the transfer of these records, 1960.

SUMMARY: An episode of the IWA's weekly radio program, "Green Gold". Host Al Parkin introduces Harold Pritchett, who discusses the decision by the executive of the British Columbia District of the IWA to sever its affiliation with the International Woodworkers of America and establish an autonomous Canadian union, the Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold Pritchett : labour history of Fraser Mills, 1925-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1940 RECORDED: Port Coquitlam (B.C.), 1973-03-11 SUMMARY: Harold Pritchett was an early labour organizer at Fraser Mills, President of I.W.A., chief executive for the B.C. Federation of Labour, etc. He discusses the conditions of the working class; union history and structure; the role of the Communist Party and the Workers' Unity League in organizing the proletariat; religion as a device of suppression; and the rise of the I.W.A., etc.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-10 SUMMARY: A 1975 interview with Harold Pritchett, who discusses the 1948 decision by the executive of the British Columbia District of the IWA to sever its affiliation with the International Woodworkers of America and establish an autonomous Canadian union, the Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada.

Minute book, 1946-1971; proceedings of the 1st General Convention, Federation of the Woodworking Industry, 1936; BCFL briefs and submissions, 1959-1965; CLC reports, etc., 1956-1963.

Presented by Erik Wood, Financial Secretary, Local 1-367, Haney, 1975.

Finding aid: file list.

News item. The Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada (PPWC), Local 2, pickets the B.C. Forest Products mill on Gorge Road, forcing management to close the mill. IWA members are upset, as the Henry Hutchins report on the forest industry is to be released in three days. IWA members want to return to work if the terms of the report are satisfactory. Even so, the PPWC pickets will be honoured by IWA members, and this means no unemployment insurance.

CALL NUMBER: T3604:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): IWA Women's Auxiliary of Lake Cowichan : [tape 1] RECORDED: Lake Cowichan (B.C.), 1979-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: This is a composite tape [i.e., a group interview] with five former members of the Lake Cowichan Women's Auxiliary of the IWA: Eva Wilson, Lori Belin, Lil Godfrey, June Olsen and Mary Greenwell, who were active in the Women's Auxiliary during the 1930s and 1940s. The women tell of their family and work backgrounds and their subsequent involvement with the union auxiliary. The women come out of very different backgrounds, some with strong trade union families (Nanaimo miners), and others from anti-union backgrounds. Most came to Lake Cowichan as young women who had married loggers. June Olsen, however, came as a teenager, grew up in Lake Cowichan, and joined her friends in the auxiliary. Conditions in the 1930s were primitive; couples lived in shacks without plumbing or electricity, the hospital was in Chemainus, and the road was terrible. TRACK 2: The Women's Auxiliary was pulled together in the 1930's by Edna Brown with the help of some of the organisers for the union. It helped to cut across the isolation that many of the young wives experienced, and to draw them into the struggle to organise the woods. The organiser went from home to home and to isolated logging camps, organising the auxiliary. Women were concerned with safety (because logging was and is an extremely dangerous business), as well as getting a better road to the hospital, and protecting and providing funds and cover for the union organisers. CALL NUMBER: T3604:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): IWA Women's Auxiliary of Lake Cowichan : [tape 2] RECORDED: Lake Cowichan (B.C.), 1979-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: As the auxiliary developed, its functions expanded and it became the central instrument in creating a community at Lake Cowichan; providing social events, education, and political involvement; establishing the P.T.A., Red Cross, swimming lessons, theatre group, doing war support work, getting fresh milk into the town, organising a children's parade, Dominion Day and Labour Day events, a Lady of the Lake contest, and coordinating with other women's groups, as well as supporting the union's activities. The members attended conventions of the union and federated auxiliary in Vancouver and Eugene (Ore.), and were instrumental in forming auxiliary policy across the IWA because of the large numbers and success of their organisation. TRACK 2: In 1946, during the march to Victoria during the strike, the Lake Cowichan women marched in the front of the trekkers. In Victoria, they organised food and lodgings with other auxiliaries. In 1948, the Lake Cowichan Auxiliary split; the majority of its members went with the WIUC. These years saw some violent confrontations, for example at Iron River, where the IWA crossed WIUC picket lines. The women and their husbands were excluded from the new IWA auxiliary at Lake Cowichan after the WIUC collapsed, and some of them became involved in the co-op, while others later did support work for the IWA when their husbands re-entered the IWA.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack Atkinson : The Ladysmith IWA & women RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-06-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jack Atkinson was active in Local 1-80 of the International Woodworkers of America in the Ladysmith sub-local. He describes the Ladysmith Women's Auxiliary, which followed the pattern of Local 1-80, and was a sub-local of the larger local. Other sub-locals existed in Lake Cowichan and Youbou. Both the sub-local and the local met regularly. The prime objective of the women's auxiliary was to educate wives of woodworkers about the benefits of unionism, and provide a group of supporters for the union. Men initially called the women's auxiliary meetings, bringing together a nucleus of women The women's auxiliary in Ladysmith prioritized organizing social functions. Not all women in the town supported the union; some opposed their husbands becoming members, for fear of strikes and loss of pay. Few women came into the Ladysmith mills as workers, and few men supported women working in the industry. The issue of equal pay was posed in relation to the different nationalities working in the industry.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jean Scott : Office and Technical workers organize RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-06-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Scott first worked as a housemaid in Manitoba. As she worked for several employers, she began to make a connection between the bad treatment of domestic workers and the oppression of women. In 1946, she began working for the Retail Wholesale and Department Store and Packinghouse Union as an office worker. In this position she also put out organising leaflets. She remembers the union contract establishing different pay rates for men and women doing the same work. She helped organise support for the union in the 1947 strike of meat workers and jam factory workers. She later worked for the IWA and assisted the White Bloc in the struggle for leadership of the union. She participated in a campaign to organise office workers which was able only to sign union offices and the BC Co-op. TRACK 2: She felt that the unions organised their staff only under pressure and through the examples set by the Steelworkers and the VDLC. For a while, she served as President of Local 15, OTEU and acted as contract negotiator. The BCFL had a position calling for equal pay for women. She believes that it was difficult for women to become trade union leaders and win adequate recognition for their work. OTEU supported childcare and maternity leave. Their contracts acted as models for other unions in the BCFL on these questions.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jeanne Ouellette : the Ladysmith IWA Women's Auxiliary RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-08-08 SUMMARY: Jeanne Ouellette came from a strong trade union family rooted in the coal miners' struggles on Vancouver Island. She actively supported the trade unions in 1935 during the longshoremens' strike. Her husband was a longshoreman in Chemainus. With the other strikers, they moved to Ladysmith where it was possible to secure low-cost accommodation. The women supported the men on the picket line and built whist drives to raise money for the six month strike. The police brought in strikebreakers to break up the picket line. After the strike, her husband became a logger and she became active in Local 1-92 Auxiliary. Her auxiliary was CCF in its political leanings. It concerned itself with wages, building a community, support for the 1946 strike and the march to Victoria. When the IWA leadership led the split in 1948, the Ladysmith Auxiliary attended the meeting in Duncan and were firm in the their decision to stay with the IWA and maintain control of their own finances. After the break, the IWA reorganized the auxiliaries, making them more centralized, and dismantling the sub-local structure. The Ladysmith Women's Auxiliary lost some of its continuity, and interest waned in it.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with John Kloss in 1974.
T0540:0001 track 1: Mr. Kloss discusses his experiences on logging railroads. First worked in the woods, 1927; various woods jobs; working on steam locomotives for various coastal logging companies; work and wages; unionism and strikes in the 1930s, including the formation of the I.W.A.; 1934 strike at Alberni-Pacific Logging Co.
T0540:0001 track 2: Mr. Kloss discusses the 1934 forest industry strike (cont'd); logging camp life on the coast, 1927-1946; Canadian Forest Products' Englewood camp. Mr. Kloss provides details about logging locomotive operation, including: the end of steam locomotives and the advent of diesel electric locomotives.

T0540:0002 track 1: Mr. Kloss describes the differences between steam locomotives and diesel electric locomotives. Movement of rail operation from Englewood to Beaver Cove and Woss run, 1957. Life in various Nimpkish Valley camps: Nimpkish and Woss. Minor railroad accidents described. Problems of union organization at Salmon River and other logging camps. Summary remarks.

CALL NUMBER: T0207:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John McRae "Rae" Eddie : the making of the union at Fraser Mills - the early days RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: John McRae "Rae" Eddie was born in 1900 and worked at Fraser Mills from 1922 to 1947 after which he was on the International Workers of America (I.W.A.) payroll until 1965. He was also an MLA (N.D.P.) for New Westminster from 1952 until 1969. Rae discusses the early days at Fraser Mills, the early living and working conditions, the first attempts at union organization, and the workings of the early union. CALL NUMBER: T0207:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John McRae "Rae" Eddie : the making of the union at Fraser Mills - support, acceptance and dissent PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-05-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rae Eddie discusses the formation of their own local in 1942; the election of delegations to Canadian and international labour conventions: the red bloc and white bloc. Reaction of the Japanese, Chinese, and East Indians to the union. Eddie's opinion on the Japanese evacuation in World War II. His job as a lumber trimmer. Why he became interested in the union movement. Union membership obligations and secret membership drives. Difficulties in organizing Fraser Mills. Wartime labour relations. Women's wages. TRACK 2: Women in the mill and the union. Effects of the war and the return of veterans. Establishment of a closed shop. Results of union certification. Communist -- non-Communist rivalry for leadership of the union. The 1946 strike. The October Revolution and formation of the W.I.U.C. The barring of Communist from the I.W.A. CALL NUMBER: T0207:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John McRae "Rae" Eddie : the making of the union at Fraser Mills - union unity and progress PERIOD COVERED: 1947-1970 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-05-14 SUMMARY: Rae Eddie discusses the October 3, 1948 "Revolution" of the I.W.A. and its aftermath. Eddie also briefly discusses his years as an MLA from 1952 to 1969. He makes comparisons and discusses the past, present and future of the union.

CALL NUMBER: T3628:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jonnie Rankin : women in the B.C. shipyards in the 1940s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-07-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rankin wrote a column for the newspaper of the Shipyard and General Workers Union during the war, describing the experience of women working in the shipyards. She has also been involved in the HREU, OTEU and the IWA. She was an activist in the Labour Progressive Party during the war. In this interview, she describes the motivations of women taking industrial jobs; hiring procedures; attitudes of men to women entering the yards; the transformation of the craft unions into industrial unions; childcare; political differences in the unions; Soviet women on ships which came into the yards for repair. TRACK 2: Piecework; shop stewarding; layoffs and women; work as a journalist for "The People"; the LPP; left-wing theatre; the IWA strike of 1946; organizing in the restaurants; women's auxiliaries; equal pay struggles. Women were unwilling to leave their jobs after the war ended; working had brought them self-respect and economic autonomy.

CALL NUMBER: T3628:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-07-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rankin worked in the IWA hiring hall and was involved in some of the early attempts to form the OPIEU from union employees (1947). [TRACK 2: blank?]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marjorie Storm : women's rights and the IWA RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1979-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Storm was and is a member of the IWA, and has been involved in organizing for women's rights in both the IWA and the BCFL. In this interview, she compares work in organized and unorganized wood plants; sexual harassment on the job; women in union positions; seniority; weight limits; the BC Human Rights Code; child care; women's caucuses; and racism in the wood industry. Mrs. Storm left her first job at Fraser Mills because of sexual harassment. She moved to Pacific Veneer when women were represented both in the workforce, as stewards, and on plant committees. Mrs. Storm was asked to be a steward and represent the 350 women in the plant in 1953. She was elected to the plant committee and served as recording secretary, because of her work representing all workers as a steward. There was a long-term fight for equality for women; the plants kept separate seniority lists for women and men, and women were only allowed entrance into a limited number of jobs, within the sub-department where they worked. TRACK 2: In 1966, the IWA established equal pay for equal work in convention. As well, a struggle occurred against a thirty-pound weight limit for women. During the 1946 strike, women were very active, taking on graveyard picket duty. Women were very militant, often jumping the gun on strike deadlines and starting wildcats. One equal work struggle occurred when women were refused the right to relieve workers on the spreader, which was a higher paying job, and the foreman had refused the senior woman worker. Women stood around the spreader and closed it down to establish the right to relieve on breaks. Women played important roles on safety and plant committees.

The item consists of five reels of film including:

1. Billings to bargain, interview with John Macdonald Billings regarding IWA contract negotiations ca. 1972: negative picture with optical sound
2. Pacific Centre opening, Vancouver, 1971: reversal outs
3. Pacific Centre opening, Vancouver, 1971: negative outs
4. Job opportunities, interview with Daniel Campbell, Minister of Municipal Affairs, a month and a half after the start of the Job Opportunities Program, 1971 : negative picture with optical sound
5. Kiernan, anti-pollution, Interview with Kenneth Kiernan, Minister of Travel Industry, about the problem of litter in BC, 1970. Filmed either at Stanley Park in front of the totem poles or at Totem Park, UBC. Kiernan discusses the implications of the "new" Litter Act and displays a portable shovel for burying litter in the wilderness. He also demonstrates how to crush a tin or aluminum can for packing out of the bush or burying: negative picture with optical sound.

The item consists of six reels of film footage including:

1. Billings IWA reply, John Macdonald Billings responding to IWA contract demands, 1972: negative picture with optical sound
2. W.M. Skillings, Minister of Industrial Development, Trade and Commerce, being interviewed about the "Home Grown BC Quality" products campaign, 1972: negative picture with optical sound
3. Boeing 737 press flight: negative
4. Interview with D.R.J. Campbell, Minister of Municipal Affairs, and Grace McCarthy, Member without Portfolio, about the job opportunity program of the Social Credit government. Campbell comments on the success of the program, 1971: negative picture with optical sound.
5. Last steam locomotive, Various shots of steam locomotive at logging site. Train pulls up to water tender, loading water, coupling train of logs, etc.: duplicate negative
6. CP Air : executive jet service, Shot at Vancouver International Airport, this item features Canadian Pacific Airlines, demonstrating the "executive service" offered to business travellers by CP Air: edited master.

CALL NUMBER: T3602:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Myrtle Bergren : working to build the IWA -- a staff person remembers RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bergren was born in England, coming to Canada in 1925 when her family came to farm in the Okanagan where they lived through the Depression. She left school at 13, working for fifteen cents a day on an asparagus farm. Later she worked at housework for ten dollars a month until 1939, when she worked in a bakeshop, attending stenography classes in the morning. She then worked at the Kelowna Courier for sixty-five dollars a month, moving on to the Princeton courthouse as a stenographer. There she joined the Civil Servants' Association, despite the anti-union atmosphere in her office and her own mistrust of unions. She spent two years in the air force during the war and in 1946 was offered a job with the International Woodworkers of America at thirty-five dollars a week, which she accepted. Her attitudes towards unions changed rapidly, and she became a strong union militant when she saw unions in the context of class society. She also joined the Communist Party. She worked for the IWA until the split in 1948. She studied with Becky Huhay about the role of women in society. TRACK 2: She married Hjlamer Bergren, an organiser for the IWA, moved with him to Lake Cowichan in 1946, and worked with the Women's Auxiliary there. In 1948, the IWA leadership led a split and formed the Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada, a Canadian union. The Bergrens had relocated in Vancouver, but now returned to Lake Cowichan where they organised for the WIUC, and their house became the centre of union activity in the area until the dissolution of the WIUC. Women played a major role in many of the union's activities, including the 1946 march to Victoria during the strike. CALL NUMBER: T3602:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Myrtle Bergren : working to build the IWA -- a staff person remembers [continued] RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Mrs. Bergren lent a hand in organising for the United Packinghouse Workers of America in her native Okanagan in 1946. She also wrote "Tough Timber", about the early organisation of the IWA, as well as many short stories.

SUMMARY: Reports by Laurie Dillabough and Jim Nesbitt about the International Woodworkers of America and the workers' trek on Victoria, B.C..;

CALL NUMBER: T0096:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : a soldier of the working class PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1925 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Niels Christian Madsen was born in 1899 and discusses growing up in Denmark. Schooling and farm work. TRACK 2: World War I. Army training, Additional schooling. Emigration from Denmark. Farmer's helper in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. Logging and other jobs. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : a soldier of the working class ; a Danish farmboy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-11 SUMMARY: Niels Madsen discusses working on the farm, going out on his own, pulp camps and cardwood cutting, painting grain elevators, Winnipeg to Edmonton with horse teams, experiences with con men in boomtown, 1928. Trip to B.C. and work in the woods and mines. Summary of jobs to 1937 when he left for the Spanish Civil War. Description of departure from Canada and trip through France. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : a soldier of the working class ; memories of the Spanish Civil War RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-14 SUMMARY: Niels Madsen discusses crossing the Pyrenees to Spain. Setting up camp. Volunteering for immediate action and encounter. International machine gun battalion. Goes on to describe various actions and encounters -- anecdote commentary. Hopelessly lost situation. Story of capture. Beating in P.O.W. camp. Useless war. Release to Canada. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : the on-to-Ottawa trek PERIOD COVERED: 1929-1935 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Niels Madsen discusses joining the labour movement and the Communist Party; conditions at Britannia Mines; Bill Bennett; organizing the relief camp workers' union; protest riot in Vancouver, the On-to-Ottawa Trek. TRACK 2: The On-to-Ottawa Trek continued; the Regina riot; Arthur Evans and other leaders; results of the trek. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : union organizer PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Niels Madsen discusses joining the Communist Party, 1930. Prospecting for gold on the Fraser River. TRACK 2: Work in logging camps. Organizing for the I.W.A. End of affiliation with the I.W.A. and the organization of a Canadian union. Strikes on the Queen Charlotte Islands.

The item is a video copy of a documentary about forest workers.