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The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Patrick George Hill titled "A failure of unity: Communist party - CCF relations in British Columbia, 1935-1939." 1977. iv, 130 leaves. Thesis (M.A.), University of Victoria, 1977. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 127-130. Canadian theses on microfiche, 34111.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0017 PERIOD COVERED: 1890s-1975 RECORDED: Warfield (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sit down strike in 1938. Joins Mine/Mill. Union history. Steel raid of 1950. Steel blitz. Chairman of grievance committee. Bargaining committee. Arbitration with company over contract. Compulsory check off gained. Steel's opposition to compulsory check off. Joins LPP and CP. MacLean's Pierre Berton story. Berton friend of Ed Benson. Story false. Ran in election as CP candidate in 1950's. LP philosophy. LPP members in Trail. LPP on executive. CCF and union split. Bert Herridge and raid. Canadian autonomy in Mine/Mill. Red baiting in unions. Warrington stopped at border crossing. Steel's complicity and border stopping. How border crossing worked. TRACK 2: Paul Robeson at Peace Arch. Mine/Mill recordings of concerts. Mine/Mill hall opening. Pete Seeger plays. Trail labour centre Building Co. Old Mine/Mill members resist turnover of building. Crown owns building. Tries to form society. Community split over raid. LPP members army. Mine/Mill and compensation. Doctors were company oriented. Dr. Jim Endicott good to union. Compensation system explained. Back injuries. Quit union because of health problems. Morning quit because of merger. Al Reid goes to work for the compensation board. Steel merger vote. Steel and local elections. Warrington at Steel conventions. Autonomy at Steel conventions. Trail resolution on anti-communism. Democracy in Mine/Mill and Steel. Mine/Mill meetings explained. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0017 RECORDED: Warfield (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Murphy Days explained. 12 hour shifts. Anecdote about Murphy and Mahoney. Anecdote about Al King and arbitration. Story about Newton's Hole. Anecdote about discipline on the hill. Belenger is fired . Strike not raised. Bluebell strike. Murphy hated wildcats. Wildcat during raid. Three guys fired. [TRACK 2: blank.] CALL NUMBER: T4101:0018 PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1975 RECORDED: Warfield (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Involving workers in outside issues. Columbia River treaty. Bill Muir, editor of Commentator, hired to study treaty. Shop stewards demonstrate against E. Davey Fulton signing treaty. Anecdote about E. Davey Fulton and Seaforth Highlanders. Community organising. History of Mine/Mill. 1917 strike. Democracy and merger. 1972 strike. 1974 bargaining. Kever quits. 1973 Cairnaw raid. Cairnaw stance. Spirit of internationalism. Independence within Steel. Warrington retires. Getting hired. Harvey Murphy fights for pensions. Company pension and vesting rights. Supplementary benefit fund. Cominco. Union benefit fund. Combined pension. Harvey Murphy and pensions. CPP, OAS. Murphy remembered. Holidays bargained for. Murphy Days explained. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0089:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - a maritimer in B.C. RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-11 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson was born in 1903, and lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He recalls life in Nova Scotia and the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Life in Vancouver. Discusses early jobs and early union associations. Describes life of a migratory worker in the prairies, B.C., and the U.S. Pacific northwest during the early 1920s. Mentions the One Big Union and the Industrial Workers of the World and their activities at the time. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - the Wobblies PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-13 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson discusses his odd jobs on the west coast from B.C. to California. The spread of the Industrial Workers of the World among migratory workers. The tactics used to organize and the resistance put up by the employers. Factions in the movement, the Communist influence and the split in the I.W.W. Conditions and pay on the job and improvements due to Union activity. Primarily concerning 1920-1925, but some talk of the 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - adjusting to disability PERIOD COVERED: 1920s-1930s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-18 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson discusses the changes in his life from a 1924 or 1925 shingle mill accident in which he lost an arm. Difficulty in changing, return to school and job as an executive for the Industrial Workers of the World Union. Return to mill work, the change from physical labour to sales work. Labour and socialist activities in the 1920s and 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - the Depression and after RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-18 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson continues recounting activities in the 1930s including the early years of the C.C.F. Activities of the Communists. C.C.F. Quebec convention regarding conscription and the polarity in the C.C.F. Communist philosophy, reasons for participating in a socialist movement.

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.]

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1967 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical. Discrimination in hiring. Lead dust. Working conditions. Meet Arthur Evans. Favouritism in promotion. Workmen's Committee grievance. Theory of cooperation. Blaylock story. signing up in the Mine/Mill union. 1917 strike. Becoming a shop steward. Organizing on the job. Hired as international representative. Voluntary check off help in organising. Trouble in organising. Sheep Creek gold mines. organizing tactics at small mine. Company opposition to union. Voluntary check off and door to door organizing. First bargaining with Blaylock. First contract not very good. Harvey Murphy talks about contract. Foremen react to contract. Gets fired as organizer. Communism in Mine/Mill. Billingsley runs for president of Local 480. TRACK 2: John Goyden hired to replace Claire Goyden. Collecting Communist party dues while organising. Local secretary of small union couldn't read or write. Trouble in organising small unions. Communists on Local 480 executive. Communists were shop stewards. Changes grievance procedure. Bosses learn to live with contract. One hundred and twenty-five communists in Local. Murphy ties labour to Communism. Communists are good workers. Reasons for split. Never had any money in Local. Poor research department in Mine/Mill. Murphy on pork chops. Union meeting in Spokane. Communists were refused entry into the United States. Future of Reid Robinson decided. Reasons for union split. Kimberly executive is split. Murphy and poker. Murphy and organising. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1983 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Merger terms. Anecdote about merger. Kimberly joins Local 480 to stall 1950 Steel vote. Anecdote about Murphy. Quits at Cominco. Automation at Cominco. Gets hired at Provident Investment. Union split and resentment. Business support for Communists. Cominco's attitude during split. Maurice Travis comes to Trail. Travis sent back to States. Wife goes to Vancouver during split. Ladies Auxiliary. Communist cells in Trail. "White" cells set up by Billingsley. Tactics used by Communists and Billingsley. Meeting of C.P. members in Trail. Billingsley being recruited to C.P. Local 480 strike fund. Anecdote about Fred Henne using strike fund. Communists are good workers. Can take control of unions. Communists want to control economy. Anecdote about Murphy and strikes. Car sabotaged by Communists. TRACK 2: Local 480 agrees to repair his car. Literature for split printed ahead of time. Billingsley runs for president of BC District Union. Vote thrown out and new election called. Communists finance new campaign. Communists use of Mine/Mill paper. USWA organisers and tactics. Murphy gets Billingsley's help after split. Difference between organising today and during the 1940s.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1940;-;1977 RECORDED: Waneta Junction (B.C.), 1983-08-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rand formula increases union membership. Became a shop steward in 1947. Joined union because workers needed a voice. Never belonged to a union before. Worked with a man who was on the Workmen's Committee. Bonuses (sic) would drop after Christmas bonus was given out. Shop steward for eight years. Anecdote about Murphy. Murphy was dedicated. Union didn't come easy to Trail. Was not a regular meeting attendee. Working conditions. People fired easily. Wages were never a big point. Steady paycheque. Company built on people with little education. Equality of pay a big point. Anecdote about pay difference. 1950 Steel raid. Shop steward on crew was Steel organiser. Was ridiculed and hurt for it. Mine/Mill called a Red union. Only a dozen Communists in Trail. Writers from Commentator refused access to U.S.A. Merger with Steel. Pensions for leaders. Mine/mill was getting weaker. Building used in Steel raids. Trail labour centre building company; contract, raises and social improvements. Forty-four hour week. Pension. Company good for town and workers. TRACK 2: Biographical information.

CALL NUMBER: T3588:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Effie Jones : The Housewives' League RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Effie Jones was born in England and spent years of her youth in Wales, where she came into contact with the miners' struggles of the early 20th century. She came to Canada in 1919 and married, settling with her husband in Vancouver. Mr. Jones worked for BC Telephone. The Jones' home was the only one in the neighbourhood with a telephone during the Depression, and became a centre for people looking for work. They also had a vegetable garden and many chickens, as well as steady work, and helped to support many of their less fortunate friends and neighbours. Mrs. Jones began her political work with the CCF as a local executive member. Her experience with the CCF left her disillusioned and she left the CCF for the more active Communist Party. She worked in the Housewives' League, transforming it from a Liberal club into an organisation with branches across Canada. TRACK 2: The League worked on support for the Post Office occupation in 1938 -- the defense of the men arrested in the occupation, fighting evictions, and mobilizing to put people's belongings back into their homes. CALL NUMBER: T3588:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: When the war began, the Housewives League fought for soldiers' wives to receive an adequate and regular allowance. Effie Jones almost won the mayoral race in 1947. She ran for civic positions in later elections as well. She celebrated her 90th birthday in 1979. [TRACK 2: blank?]

PERIOD COVERED: ;1917;-;1967 RECORDED: Fruitvale (B.C.), 1983-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. WWII helped get 175 houses built the Legion for Trail veterans. Al King on Legion committee. King told him about Labour. Blames Steel raid on the Cold War. Reasons for raid. No membership meetings called by the executive. King asked him to be International Representative. Caused trouble because he never worked on the Hill. Korean war broke out at the same time at Steel raid. Steel lost right to vote on the Hill because their jurisdiction was wrong. Steel amended their constitution to reflect new jurisdiction. Community split with Union/Mine. Mill members bought house from Andrew Waldie. Legion would not rent to Mine/Mill. Catholic priests involved in split. Waldie new Ginger Goodwin. Waldie worked on hill during the 1917 strike. Trail Labour Centre Building Co. Devito on city council in 1955/56. Goes to Sudbury as publicity officer during 1962 raid. 1950 raid all over BC. Reasons for raid. Devito just about kicked out of Legion. Friend of Endicott. Anecdotes about Murphy. TRACK 2: Discrimination against immigrants. Murphy Anecdotes. Mine/Mill and community involvement. Ladies auxiliary. Al King remembered. Racism and red baiting used by Steel. Tim Buck comes to Trail. Communism and Mine/Mill policies. Father worked on the CPR. working conditions before WWII. Bill Melvin local steel worker. Most people now dead. Devito didn't have much to do with union after merger. Blacks on Mine/Mill. Executive Ashton Halbury stopped at border crossing.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1929-[no date] RECORDED: Kaslo (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Started work for Cominco in 1929 on company docks. Went to Trail in 1930. Laid off in 1931 with other single men. Took freight across Canada; married in North Battleford and took wife on freights to Trail. Got work in 1932 as he was married. Met underground union people. Underground union formed into cells of about five men each. Man named MacDonald paid Evans to come to Trail. About 100 people were in the underground union. Evans had a couple of meetings and people decided to form a real union. Met in co-op garage. Organised on the job. Wore CIO button to break down fear. Relations with Italian workers. Company town. Old WFM men on hill. Anecdote about WFM organizer. Anecdote about Murphy. Observer at first negotiations. Was fired in 1949 for passing out leaflets about Ginger Goodwin's death. TRACK 2: Lost arbitration over firing. Blacklisted from work in Trail. Gets job at Reese-MacDonald mine. Anecdote about men threatening to go on strike if he is fired. Church prints leaflet to discourage Italians from joining Mine/Mill. Assessment of people working for union. Was demoted for organizing. Anecdote about discussion politics with General Manager. Called to general office; from bringing union papers on job. Communists in the Union. Red baiting on the job. Communists didn't hurt organizing. Communists resign thinking to help organizing drive; doesn't work. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1983 RECORDED: Kaslo (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Impression of Arthur Evans. Belenger talked to judge who sentence Evans. Burning of car. Belenger and Evans harassed by police. Burning Evans' car. Workmen's Committee implicated. Ladies Auxiliary organised as an appendage to the union. Impressions of Harvey Murphy. Impressions of Murphy. Organisation of Union Paper. Blaylock and Cominco; Blaylock's drive to dominate everything. Steel raid of 1950. Right wing for Steel. Mine/Mill and democracy. Mine/Mill workers elected to Workmen's Committee. Company gave pay raises to stop union organising. Downtown people talked about company benefits. Pollution in Trail. Company town and paternalism of the company. Anti-Mine/Mill people joined steel analysis of merger. TRACK 2: Steel fighting Mine/Mill/Steel arguments during raid. Strikes won by hearts and guts. Communist party and union decision. Murphy got in trouble once for making a decision without executive. Learned about unions by doing. Process of forming Local 480. Organizers knew about putting out leaflets and papers. Knew how to attack problems. Could see issues clearer than workers, i.e. health and safety. Some men had lead tests done in Spokane. Conditions on the hill. Dr. Endicott was a union sympathizer. Company doctors were not trusted. Company always looking out for shareholders. Workers never start battles (CIO) Evans car smashed. Company propaganda provoked fights. Took a long time for overcome company influence. Trail workers now give largest strike mandate in BC. Company store shuts down. Trail changed physically over time as did the workers.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1937;-;1983 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), [1983-08?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Started in 1937. Came from Medicine Hat. Bag piper was hired ahead of him - took grievance to WCC but they could not deal with it. Independent Smelter Workers Union (ISWU). Power passed to ISWU. Fought of first Mine/Mill vote. Lost on second vote. Kimberly went Mine/Mill first. Affiliation with Amalgamated Unions of Canada. Couldn't make any headway organizing other Canadian unions. Mine/Mill and communists. Animosity drummed up against Mine/Mill over "Red" issue. ISWU contract better than Mine/Mill's. ISWU falling apart. Difficulty in collecting dues. Bishop joins Mine/Mill, put on various union committees. Union was involved in various community organizations. Communists in Mine/Mill. Communist tactics. Support for Seaman's Union. Communists were dedicated. Invited to meet Don Dunkley and Bert Gargroves, Steel organizers in hotel room. Building house in Trail. Pension fund loaned him money. Whole executive was supposed to resign by only he did. Murphy rigs election. TRACK 2: Billingsly-Smith election declared illegal. Steel cards not ready for split. No impact on communities. Door to door Steel campaign. Anecdotes about Murphy. Murphy stories. Joined Steel workers after election. President of ISWU's son becomes Steel president. Keneway President of ISWU. Ladies auxiliary fighters. Communist tactics and followers. Belenger and meetings. One meeting ends in a riot. Press was anti-union. Type of people involved in unions.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Harold Winch in 1976 about his time as a socialist in British Columbia and Canadian politics, 1933-1972.
C.C.F. draws support from all ethnic and racial groups. Strong British base to CCF support. Problems in breaking down loyalties to "old line" parties. C.C.F. clubs: early socialist institutions in B.C. Communist Party infiltration into the C.C.F. Balance between doctrinaire principles and pragmatic considerations. Contacts between B.C. party and national party. Winch's feelings about the dissolution of the Legislature in 1953. Expresses satisfaction with his political career.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1929;-;1953 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-06-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Where the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Worker's Union came from. Birth date. Work on provincial relief road camp. Worked in federal relief camp. Anecdote about a relief camp strike and march into Nelson. More relief camp strike. Dealing with police; end of strike. Relief camp conditions; clothing; another walk out and arrest of men. Reasons for protests. Communist in relief camps; beginning of 15 and 5 at Cominco. WWII gearing up in 1934 and Cominco hires over 1000 people. Kelly gets elected to Workmen's Cooperative Committee; Kelly's feelings about workmen's Cooperative Committee; why Kelly joined the committee. TRACK 2: Kelly was on Workmen's Committee when CIO started to organize. Cominco was short of workers during war - explaining how Workmen's Committee worked . Workmen's Committee grievance anecdote. Workmen's Committee asks for raise and gets turned down. Explanation of wage structure and Cominco. Blaylock's philosophy of wages. Kelly goes too war. Demobilized in Vancouver in 1946. Reason Kelly joins TUMMSW; soon elected to shop steward. Steelworkers raid IUMMSW; raid lasts for three years; jurisdiction vote in 1953 which Mine/Mill wins.

RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-07-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Started work at Cominco in 1934. Met Evans at Douglas Hotel. Given union dues book and paid dues to Evans. About five people at meeting. Dues book #20 or less; hid book from father who was a shift boss. Scared of being fired. Meetings in Doukhobor block. CIO written on window a work. Gop good organizer. Evans car burned. Steel raids in 1950. Stayed with Mine/Mill. Reasons for raid. Good steel contract. Poor Mine/Mill contract. Impressions of Evans. Reasons for joining the union. Work history on the hiill. Father scared he would be fired for union activity. Cost of union membership. Impressions of Murphy-Merger and Executive. Lower wages with Mine/Mill 1974 strike. Company and bargaining tactics. Communists and Mine/Mill. Red-baiting. Fighting company meant you were radical. Lots of jobs during 1940s. Al King well thought of. Belenger blacklisted. Belenger outspoken. Talk of black list. Bank owning cars. Workmen's Committee pictures in scrap yard. TRACK 2: Half time in 1930's. Tried Maple Leaf union. Tried to get trades union in. Wage differences between trades and labourers.

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.

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0010 PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1929 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information; father's first trip to Canada; father returns to Sweden during First World War; borrowed money to return to Canada in 1925; logging in Nelson; mother and brothers come to Canada; four days on immigrant train; father borrows money from the CPR to bring him over; route to Canada; immigrant trains; anecdote about trip; life in Sweden; logging in Sweden; anecdote about work; pay in Sweden; unions; workers; paper; union raiding; working for father on Silver King Mountain; driving horses; cut cedar poles and white pine for Mathes; prices and wages in 1928; anecdote; about supplying mine; anecdote about operation of mine; anecdote about supplying mine; anecdote about Eagan's eyeglasses; crew at mine; location and name; camp at Cahill Lake; anecdote about working log deck; anecdote about brutal foreman; camp conditions; wages and costs; flume to Slocan Lake; flume construction; ice chute for log; anecdote about brother's logging accident and hospitalization; compensation; brother loses leg; brother's life after accident; brother's life and family; father and Bystrom, piling lumber at Six Mile Lake, quit over pay dispute; Cotton Logging Company job above Boswell; tools for fallers; piecework cutting cedar poles; peeling poles; camp at Boswell, hot water, sinks. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Camp at Boswell; hot water tanks; camp quality; anecdote about cork boots; work hours; anecdote about hard worker; recreation in camps; stock crash of 1929; logging camps close; anecdote about trying for job outside of Castlegar; room and board; logging in Princeton; riding freight train to Vancouver; unemployment in Vancouver; hobos on train; freight train to Castlegar; CPR police; walking from Castlegar to Nelson; working in mine; packing equipment in; miners' candlestick; anecdote about packing steel out; father on relief; mother cutting wood; farm produce; homemade pipe boring machine; making pipes. TRACK 2: Wrapping pipe with wire; economics of pipe sales; homemade sawmill; Kootenay Landing; Proctor railroad; anecdote about poor wages; hand drilling for blasting; anecdote about diarrhea in camp; anecdote about driving to Hidden Creek; lived in trapper's cabin; anecdote about boss tricking them into working; work at China creek relief camp; work conditions at camp; anecdote about man being kicked out of camp and him leaving; people in camp; Willow Point relief work; prospectors classes and grubsteak relief program; groceries for a month; three weeks prospecting in Slocan area; came back for groceries; CMS called him to go to work --started June 27, 1934 in lead refinery; work hours; lead explosion; conditions in refinery; open transfer (fired) from refinery; labour gang; anecdote about Joe Fillapelli. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1972 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdote about Joe Fillapelli; "barring down" the lead furnaces; anecdote about "safety first man"; construction with molten slag; lead contract; leaded work conditions; scrap yard; cutting shears; operation; meets wife; sick and crippled people in scrap yard; anecdote about quitting scrap yard; worked storage plant in Warfield until his retirement in 1972; 1942 work on Brilliant dam; work conditions on dam; anecdote about unloading cement; bicycling to work; contract system in storage plant; became shop steward; Castlegar board member; union split; reasons for not joining steel; Al King president; elected to convention in Olympia, Washington, barred from crossing into the U.S.; steelworkers and barring. TRACK 2: Stopped at border; Bert Herridge; anecdote about Herridge getting his border crossing privileges back; member of CCF; quit CCF because it was the political arm of the United Steelworkers Union; Murphy in Communist Party; met lots of Communist Party members; good men; approached to join the CP by Art Erins and Garfield Belenger; reminiscences about Belenger; anecdote about Harvey Murphy; benevolent society and six weeks of Murphy tries for better sick pay; vesting rights to pensions; 1940, moves to Castlegar; fresh air; terms and prices for lots; credit for lumber; built 14 x 20 shack; West owned water system; old lumber for new house; anecdote about pouring foundation; constructs an apartment building; layout of apartment building; sold apartments after he retired; present house bought as a kit from Vancouver; construction of house; contents of kit; agent helped assemble house; framed by nightfall; cost of kit. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0013 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Food co-op; Sam Muirhead's idea; war rationed items were kept for storekeeper's friends; sold shares at 50 dollars each; bought three lots in Castlegar; lots cleared and building put up on volunteer basis; Cominco employees had two transportation societies; had garage by theatre; food co-op hired Walter Markin as first manager; later co-op in Vancouver recommended Jack Kirby for Manager; Kirby anti-union; first president was Muirhead; second was Bystrom; last president was Dalziel; co-op folded, Kirby fired, co-op liquidated; co-op expansion plans rejected; first co-op operated from his back porch; operations from porch; Transportation Society builds new building; operation of Transportation Society; NDP membership; anecdote about rejoining CCF-NDP; rejoined after merger with Steel; Columbo Lodge Hall meeting of Mine/Mill members where Murphy explained merger.

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.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0005 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born 27 Aug 1914 in Nelson. Started work at Cominco in 1935 on labour gang. Company had lots of employee programs. No security. Pension plan. Fee milk; free seed potatoes. Work wasn't hard; heat, dust, fumes were bad. Company store; Cominco dairy. No security that benefits would stay. Wages fluctuated monthly. Efficiency bonus fluctuated without regard to anything. Fear of joining union and being fired. Evans faced a lot of difficulties getting union organised. Evans red-baited. Evans tried to break fear and intimidation. Romaine believed in preamble to IYUMMSW constitution. Joined union for health and wages. Men talked about union before. Talked of fear amongst workers. Organizing on the job. Fear was rampant. Whole way of life threatened. Very grassroots. Organising in IUMMSW. Physical description of Slim Evans. Singed into union #12; was scared he would get fired. Man in his department was fired for organising on the job. TRACK 2: Evans had a good sense of humour. Evans tells funny story of S.G. Blaylock. Trail Ad News only place to print union bulletins. Evans car destroyed. Workmen's Committee elections were influenced by company. Funny story about running a plumbers helper in election. Union dues were strictly voluntary in the beginning. Dues were half days wages. First contract provision. Straw bosses could fire without cause before contract. Company cut hours of work during Depression to ¾ time. "Pie Time" [i.e., coffee breaks] not recognized by company. Anecdote about pie time and war bond drive. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0006 PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdote about pie-time and war bond drive. Belenger was fired for passing out leaflets. CIO was organiser. CIO and its successes help the union organise. Romaine's philosophy of history. [T;RACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0099:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - king and country RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-25 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses his early childhood in England; educational opportunities; family life; influence of father; loss of religion; stupidity of WWI; bakery apprenticeship; farm work; preparing for emigration; reasons for choosing Canada; first impressions; farm work in Saskatchewan. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - the real Canadians RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-25 and 28 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses farming in Saskatchewan; Prince Albert; travelling across the prairies working for different farmers; harvesting; tending horses; homesteading with brothers; north to Edmonton; to Vancouver in the spring of 1924; lumber camps; fall of 1924; back to the prairies; first of two bakeries; trips to England; comparison of Prince Albert and Cutknife, Saskatchewan; people and conditions. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - co-operation and confrontation RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-28 and 29 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses bakery operation in Cutknife, Saskatchewan to 1928; idea for a co-op; trips to England; move to Australia; strikes in Australia; differences between Australian and other workers; successes in organizations; tactics in Australia; 1928-1930; getting "leaded" and leaving Australia. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - paternalism rebuked RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-31 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the Depression in Canada's west; the effects of the Depression on the people of the prairies; the beginnings of camp organization (unemployed camps) in B.C.; leaders; conditions; tactics; incidents; responses; camp to camp around B.C.; 1930-1935; blacklist from camps; work attempts; riding the rails; unemployed strikes for better conditions; confrontation in Vancouver; McGeer vs. unemployed; police against the unemployed; the continuing organization; etc. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - unemployed on the loose RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-01 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses organizing B.C. camps; changing names for camps; incidents; conditions; action co-ordination between camp organizers; the role of the Communist party and the C.C.F.; preparing for the On-to-Ottawa Trek; organization and plans; move to Vancouver; the story of the Vancouver strikes, incidents, leaders, attitudes of police, unemployed and citizens. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - On-To-Ottawa RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-07 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the On-to-Ottawa Trek from Vancouver to Regina; organization; events; activities of the food detail; problems; successes; Regina riot; attitude of the people and the police day by day; Regina; events of the riot; government response; return to B.C. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - Prince Rupert organization RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-08 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the return from the Ottawa Trek; organizing tasks assigned by the Communist Party; the interior, Prince George to Prince Rupert; organizing methods, problems, results; setting up a framework for self-perpetuating leadership; anecdotes; resistance; success; departure from Prince Rupert against orders; return to Vancouver. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - feeding the internationals RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-11 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses life in Vancouver; forced holiday; out to camp at Tree Valley; conditions, etc; blacklist relief; disastrous farm work attempts; organizing Fraser Mills; the call for Spanish War; volunteers off to Spain; trip and arrival; story of the war in Spain. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - the war years in Spain RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-13 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton continues his description of the Spanish Civil War; financing training; morale; role of the Communist Party; capture by the Fascists; conditions in prison camps; activities etc; release and repatriation; specific battles; personalities; horrors of capture and imprisonment. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - old struggles, new patterns RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-15 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the period from the end of the Spanish Civil War to his retirement in the 1960s. Feelings after Spain; the coming of the Second World War; logging in the interval; joining up; difficulties due to the Spanish War background; service in England; struggle for housing on return to Vancouver in 1945; hand logging from the mid-1940s to retirement -- methods, places, problems, etc.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0022 PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1945 RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1983-10-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Coalhurst Altain 1927. United Mineworkers of Canada and Harvey Murphy. Executive jailed. President's name was Sloan. UMWC breakaway from American union. Worker's unity league. A.E. Smith from Nelson was prominent communist. Early union activities. United Mine Workers of America too over UMSC. Lost 3 brothers and father-in-law in mine explosion in 1935. Mines shut down in late 1929. Worked one day a week in 1930. Moved to Kimberly in 1931. Signs up in prairies saying, "Stay Away from Trail". City of Lethbridge paid to move his family to Kimberly to get them off relief. Elected to WCC. Hardrock mining less dangerous that coal mining. Union activity during the Depression. Met secretary and president of 1917 strike. Workmen's cooperative committee. WCC members always got promoted WCC destroyed. Members destroy WCC. Company refused to recognize Silicosis. "No Silicosis in Sullivan Mine" Meeting with Blaylock, Mr. Prince (IUMMSW) had an office in Vancouver in the late 1930's. Arthur Evans in Kimberly. Contacting Mr. Price. United for a complete defeat of fascism. All union members were Progressive. Evans holds open air meetings in Kimberly. No independent unions in Kimberly. Organised in units of five. Sit down strike in Bralorne and Pioneer. Kimberly raised money for them before they were certified. [TRACK 2: blank.] CALL NUMBER: T4101:0023 RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1983-10-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: First bargaining with Blaylock. First contract. Anecdote about Murphy. Negotiating with Blaylock. WCS negotiations. OBU property in Kimberly. 1917 strike with Cominco. CMS officials with guns. Blaylock threatens Fred Henne. Fred Henne as organiser. Henne was a gambler. Henne blamed Drake for everything. John (Noisy) McPeake machinist on the hill. Loud talker. Reminiscences about Murphy. Born in Paris Ontario. Had a heart condition. Hard workers for CP. Anecdote about Murphy speaking. Murphy refused entry to BC. Murphy had to cataract operations. Coal miners to go to Moscow. Murphy fear CMS. Suspicions about Murphy. Bob Kever. Reid Robinson taking bribes. Bob Kever president of Labour Council. Garfield Belenger hard worker. John Osborne, Murphy and him on payroll. LPP members used him. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0020 PERIOD COVERED: 1942-1970 RECORDED: Cranbrook (B.C.), 1983-10-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Started work at Cominco in 1942. Work shortage on Hill. Involvement in Union. 1950 Steel raid. Anecdote about "s--thouse" Executive. Italians in Mine/Mill. Steel workers bring in Italians. Recruited for financial secretary. Bitter union split. Canadian autonomy in Mine/Mill. 1954 St. Louis convention started Canadian autonomy talks. 1955 Spokane convention finalised it. Local 480 members barred from entering U.S. United Steelworkers get him permission to re-enter after merger. Trip to Cuba in 1965. Reactions from local. Touring Cuba. Not member of Labour Progressive Party. Steel arranging his barring from U.S. Anecdote about being barred. Women's Auxiliary member barred. Questions at border. TRACK 2: 1950 union split. Pressed to join LPP. LPP on executive. Union members run to get rid of communists. Norm Gabana. Hilliard York. Bob Kever. CCF loses election. Bert Herridge, MP, refuses to take stand. Sudbury and Port Colbourne raid. 1958 negotiations. Solski, president of local 598, goes out on strike. Pension benefits. Three month strike in Sudbury. 1964 Cominco strike. Company causes strike. Murphy and Morandini negotiate contract. Couldn't call off the strike without vote. Early labour relations with Cominco. Executives lived in Trail. Mine/Mill dead after Sudbury lost. International unionism. Loss of democracy in Steel. Steelworkers 1968 Chicago convention. Morandini on resolutions committee.
CALL NUMBER: T4101:0021 PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1970 RECORDED: Cranbrook (B.C.), 1983-10-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steelworker's Resolution Committee. Chicago Convention. Staff reps. Problems with convention. Contrasted to Mine/Mill convention. Union splits. Re-elected in 1970. Reasons for quitting. Worker's lack of commitment to union. Applied to Workmen's Compensation Board for job. Interview with director. Hired by WCB. Previous problems with worker's compensation legislation. First unionist ever hired by WCB. Reasons for quitting the board. Tried to get back on at Cominco. Hired as shop assistant at East Kootenay Community College. Job at EKCC. His pension possibilities. Retirement plans. Reminiscences about Harvey Murphy. Murphy and bargaining. TRACK 2: Harvey Murphy. Organising and logistics. Anecdotes about raid and Murphy. Anecdote about sharing a room with Murphy. Murphy and family life. Murphy and news. Murphy and company negotiator. Nation executive IYMMSW. Local leadership. Murphy and integrity. Steelworkers spread rumours. Murphy and bargaining. Murphy bargains for Steelworkers. Difference of bargaining between steel and Mine/Mill. Responsibility of committee during negotiations. Strikes. Murphy and media manipulation. Murphy and Women's' Auxiliaries. Theory of Women's Auxiliaries. Murphy takes lumps. Murphy's detractors. Merger terms. Reasons for merger. Pete Seeger comes to Trail. Anecdote about Seeger. Resurrection of Commentator.

PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1967 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-06-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Background to organising in BC and Trail. He join the union in 1939; was a charter member. His birth date, 27 Oct 1905; first union bargaining with Blaylock; Blaylock's tactics. Harvey Murphy's tactics, opinion of Blaylock; Blaylock bargains on sick bed. Union gets men on Women's Cooperative Committee; Gop on Workmen's Committee. Union negotiates a dollar increase in first contract. Company store; company gave credit to men on job; organising union on job. Union go to court to get dues check-off. Opinion of Harvey Murphy. First steelworkers paid; Mine/Mill wins jurisdiction vote. Murphy sells out for a pension. Murphy one of the best. Explains shop steward system. Steel brings in several organizers for raid. Murphy was a communist. Union and Communists. TRACK 2: Anecdote about Goodwin's shooting. Union afraid of going out on strike because company might break union. Good for workers to join steelworkers. Steelworkers picnic; women's auxiliary meetings. Organising women into union; Belanger's were communists. Tillie Belanger ran for M.P. as a communist. Union was nicknamed Red Union and called Communist Union. Couldn't blame low membership on communist leaders. Murphy was a good orator and hard worker. Gop's wife leaves him over union work. Diamond took over after Blaylock but his style was to leave things to loggers. More opinions about Blaylock. Working conditions on the hill.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0008 PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1974 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert Lawrence Kever; born 19 March 1919. Started work in Cominco in June 1945. worked there for 19 years. Joined both Independent Smelter Workers Union and IUMMSW. Became shop steward and became more active during 1950 during steel raid. Clair Billingsly was president at the time. Large group came up to the plant and said they were now a steel local. No member ship meetings called to make decision. IUMMSW called special membership meetings held in old K.P. hall and elected new executive. Reminiscences about Al King. King expert in Worker's Compensation cases. Reminiscences about Harvey Murphy. Harvey Murphy and communism. Murphy and integrity. Anecdote about bargaining and Murphy. Murphy and Sal Rothman as adversaries in bargaining. Steel raid of 1950 - 1953. Mine/Mill won by 222 votes. Murphy had speech prepared for loss. Had to rewrite it. Steel raided again in 1965-66. Monty Alton was the big push to raid. Merger talks were underway in States. Al Skinner hinted of merger; talks in speech at Canadian convention in Trail in 1965. Decision by Local 480 to consider merger at special convention in Edmonton. TRACK 2: Executive realized the inevitability of merger. Kever made motion of have referendum on merger at special convention. Canadian autonomy was not a big issue in terms of merger. Had a lot of freedom under Steel-CLC-CIO affiliation; reasons for merger. Kever came to have a high regard for Steel reps. Mine/Mill democracy and referendum. Communism and its affect on unions. Personal politics and more on alleged communist domination. Democracy and referendum votes under Mine/Mill and steel machine control of Steel. Kever's election to President. Analysis of ten day strike in 1972. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0009 PERIOD COVERED: 1972-1975 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: 1972 strike. Local 480 was not prepared for the 1972 strike. U.S.W.A. only allowed ten dollars per week strike pay. Lot of resentment over the way Steel handled the strike. After strike, Canadian Workers Union started to raid. Kever was pushing to have a vote "Steel or CWU". Negotiating committee to blame for raid. Kever quit after CWU was denied the vote. Division in bargaining committee; during 1972 strike. Kever explains his decision to quit. Bargaining tactics during strike. Bargaining tactics backfire. Shape of the union when Kever left. Impressions of CWU leader, Doug Swanson. Impressions on raids and CAIMAW. Kever explains democracy in unions. Local leadership is responsible to make sure democracy is maintained. TRACK 2: Local 480 did not lose autonomy under merger. Steel never did fulfill merger terms. Steel had better programs than Mine/Mill. Mine/Mill had to use resources to fight raids. Kever on leadership. His term of office saw stability in the community. Ladies Auxiliary was helpful. Some people resented auxiliary. Rank and file didn't understand the concept of auxiliaries. Trail auxiliary was criticized that Local 480 did not give them more support.

CALL NUMBER: T3998:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Steve Brodie RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert "Steve" Brodie comments on protest marches during the Depression, including the Vancouver Post Office sit-down. 500 single unemployed travelled to Victoria on June 19, 1938. Recruiting extra Provincial Police to handle protest. Possibilities of action by single unemployed in Victoria at time of the Vancouver Post Office eviction. Reasons for Vancouver Post Office eviction of June 19, 1938. Communist Party of Canada and Post Office sitdowners. Relationship of Brodie to Communist Party. Infiltration of single unemployed by RCMP. Brodie's view of the law and the sitdowners. Brodie and Col. Hill, Sunday morning June 19, 1938. Single unemployed travelling to Victoria via Nanaimo. Victoria soup kitchen and abandoned hotels. Possible attempt to occupy Empress Hotel. Single unemployed move to Beacon Hill Park, then back to hotels. Philosophy of opposing bureaucracy. Thoughts on poverty. "Robin Hoodism" and the Communist Party. Anti-war feelings of the 1930s and the Bolshevik Revolution. "Class" in Canada. TRACK 2: Sitdowners after moving back to hotels. Colin Cameron's part in the settlement. Firefighting by the single unemployed. Christmas money earned by firefighting. Sabotage on the fireline. Attorney General Wismer's reaction. Newspaper views of the incident. Hutchinson and the Regina Riot (Detective Miller's death). Saskatoon Riot and Inspector Sampson. Civil service towns and single unemployed. Women's emergency committee. Dr. Mitchell and his wife. Business community appeals to Ottawa for works program. Doctors admit fake birth (death) certificates. Bridge River incident and birth fatality. Warden Owen of Oakalla jail. Police Chief Anderson of Kamloops and sick man.

CALL NUMBER: T3998:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Steve Brodie RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve Brodie discusses the Vancouver law court procedure and the unemployed. Victoria police and the unemployed. Vancouver police expert in Communism. Vancouver lawyer, Adam Smith-Johnson. Trial of men after the Post Office eviction. Provincial rights of travelling unemployed. Scam on railway tickets. Agreement for single unemployed not to return to B.C. for a year. Smith Johnson again. Comments on: Rev. Bob Matheson, Rev. Clem Davis, Rev. Andy Roddan, and Harold Winch and the Art Gallery eviction. Brodie's theory of the cure for unemployment. Brodie and Bishop Sexton. Dean Whitlow preaching against the unemployed. Radio on the prairie -- church services. TRACK 2: Radio church services. Church aid and attitude to the unemployed. Archbishop Duke (R.C.). Comments by Duke, Roddan, and McIntyre and the reaction of the unemployed. Brodie's orange sweater. Single unemployed women. Block committees. Stealing milk for the baby. Evictions and block committee help. Story of Scottish lady's eviction and result. Single unemployed women. Failure to organise single unemployed women. Accusations of boy and girl found in a boxcar. Frozen transients in boxcar. Brodie's theories of economics and unemployment. Administration of Royal Twenty Cent-ers.

CALL NUMBER: T0091:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sheldon Rogers : life of an independent man PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1920 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-07-08 SUMMARY: Sheldon L. Rogers was born in 1900 and talks about his personal background, entering the workforce, and the various jobs he held, which include: railroad repair, farm work in Saskatchewan, and shipbuilding. During shipbuilding phase he became involved in union activity. Also mentions effects of WWI. CALL NUMBER: T0091:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sheldon Rogers : life of an independent man PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1940 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sheldon Rogers discusses bootlegging in Vancouver in the 1920s; growing fruit in the Okanagan; pay-offs and protection while bootlegging; more about fruit growing, other jobs in Vancouver, bootlegging trial, and a set of stolen tires. TRACK 2: He discusses jail experience; work in the Okanagan during the Depression and the relief workers' organization; the C.C.F. in the 1930s; work as a mechanic in Vancouver and the Automotive Maintenance Workers' Union; the end of the Depression. CALL NUMBER: T0091:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sheldon Rogers : life of an independent man PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1950 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-08-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sheldon Rogers describes job in Vancouver shipyard during WWII; talks about relations between the Communist Party (C.P.) and unions. Lost job due to pressure from Machinists Union. Talks about C.P. and the war effort. TRACK 2: Gets job as a mechanic in a logging camp until asked by C.P. to go work at Mission and do organizing work. Describes reasons for the Communist Party changing name to the Labour Progressive Party (L.P.P.). Gets expelled from C.P. Talks about failure of Canadian I.W.A. to break away from I.W.A. Gets job at logging camp at Pitt Lake and longshoring. CALL NUMBER: T0091:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sheldon Rogers : life of an independent man PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1967 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-08-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sheldon Rogers discusses union conventions and opposing groups within. Explains reasons for changing name from C.P. to L.P.P. Discusses situation surrounding his expulsion from C.P. Discusses failure of Canadian I.W.A. to break away from I.W.A. Describes work in logging camp in Seymour Inlet. TRACK 2: Describes work longshoring. Personal attitudes toward overtime and retirement.

CALL NUMBER: T3529:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Syd Thompson : recollections of years as a labour organizer : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-06-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Colleen Bostwick, Syd Thompson discusses his personal background. Recollections of first working experiences. Life in a relief camp in Ontario during the Depression. Coming to Vancouver in the 1930s. Experiences with the relief camp workers' union. Comments on the relief system in Vancouver. TRACK 2: Comments on the differences between the CCF and the Communist Party of Canada. Attitudes and political ideas of single unemployed men in Vancouver during the Depression of the 1930s. Organized labour and political action. Anecdotes about life in various relief camps in western Canada. Comments on the effects of the relief camp system. (Cont'd on T3529:0002) CALL NUMBER: T3529:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Syd Thompson : recollections of years as a labour organizer : part 2 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: (Continues interview of 1978-06-12) Syd Thompson comments on the effect of the Depression of the 1930s on the labour movement in Canada. The inadequacies of the capitalist system. Organizing in the relief camps in Alberta. Anecdotes and stories related to experiences in prison. TRACK 2: (Continuation of interview, 1978-08-21) Further comments on organizing in relief camps. Description of conditions in relief camps in B.C. Social life and conditions during the Depression. Leaving the Communist party. Other experiences during the Depression. CALL NUMBER: T3529:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Syd Thompson : recollections of years as a labour organizer : part 3 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Syd Thompson describes his experiences in the army during the Second World War. Memories of movies he went to during the 1930s. General comments on class divisions in society and the lack of a proper division of wealth. The effect of the Depression of the 1930s on Thompson's later life. Recollection of the On-To-Ottawa Trek. TRACK 2: Recollections of experiences while organizing in a relief camp at Banff. Other memories of organizing on the prairies. Hobo jungles in B.C. during the Depression. Comments on his children and expectations for their lives. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: SD0139:0032 SUMMARY: A series of dramatizations of events from international to local history. Written by Dick Diespecker and Dorwin Baird; produced by Diespecker, Wally Peters and Kay Cronin; featuring a cast of Vancouve;r actors. This episode includes segments on: the discovery of America; the death of Napoleon; spies in WWII; the assassination of the King of Yugoslavia (October 1934); the Battle of Britain (Octobe;r 1940); Winston Churchill on the Berlin Blockade; current parking space shortage in Vancouver; concern over Communists in the leadership of the IWA. SIDE 1: Part 1. SIDE 2: Part 3.;

CALL NUMBER: SD0139:0033 SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Part 2. [SIDE 2: blank.];

CALL NUMBER: T1360:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Childhood and Youth in Alberta and British Columbia : 1909-1928 PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1928 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1909 in Red Deer, Alberta. Family background. The Barnett family in Alberta. Barnett family move to Vancouver, 1918. Barnett's education. TRACK 2: Eyewitnesses description of the return of Canadian troops to Vancouver. Growing up in Genoa Bay, Vancouver Island. Politics in the Barnett family. Barnett's uncle Alfred Speakman an MP. Barnett completed high school in 1925. Mother sick in the Provincial Hospital at Marpole/Oakridge. Worked in sawmills, 1925-26. Barnett spent one year in California, 1926-27. Entered UBC, 1927. CALL NUMBER: T1360:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A young man's experiences in B.C. : 1925-1942 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1942 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Barnett as a student at UBC after 1927. The strong influence of Barnett's mother. Also influenced by his high school teacher, Arnold Webster. Met J.S. Woodsworth in 1929 and favourably impressed. Barnett considers entering the ministry, c. 1931. Barnett to the Cariboo as a lay minister, 1933. Effects of the Depression on the Cariboo. Barnett decides against the ministry. Activities of the Student Christian Movement at UBC. TRACK 2: The intellectual climate of Vancouver and UBC in the 1930s. Barnett not a member of any party in the 1930s. Barnett in the Central Interior, 1933-42. Barnett attracted to the Social Credit movement in the 1930s. Barnett a supporter but not a member of the C.C.F. in the 1930s. Friend of C.C.F. MLA John McInnis. Editor of the Wells Chronicle during the 1930s. Barnett moves to Port Alberni in 1942. CALL NUMBER: T1360:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The I.W.A. in the 1940s PERIOD COVERED: 1932-1953 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Barnett's observations on B.C. politics in the 1930s. Personal impressions of T. "Duff" Pattullo. Barnett a school trustee in Wells, c. 1937-1940. The educational system in Wells in the late 1930s. More about the Liberal government of Pattullo. Moved to Port Alberni in 1942. Joined C.C.F., 1943. Joined I.W.A. and became active in the union. Also on the executive of Credit Union and consumer co-op. TRACK 2: Barnett's work history, 1942-53. Barnett's opposition to the communist control of the Port Alberni local and the B.C. region of the I.W.A. The "cell" operation of the Communist Party. Barnett instrumental in the formation of an anti-communist "counter-caucus" within the Port Alberni local. Barnett tried and acquitted within the union as a union disrupter, 1945. Barnett a candidate in the 1945 federal and provincial elections. More on the communist / non-communist struggle within the Port Alberni local. Barnett's fundamental opposition to "monolithic" communism. Critique of the Communist Party of Canada by Malcolm Bruce. The defeat of the communists in the I.W.A., 1948. CALL NUMBER: T1360:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Federal politics in the 1940s and 1950s PERIOD COVERED: 1942-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Communist leaders in Port Alberni: Alfred Dewhurst, Mark Mosher, Nigel Morgan. Communists not successful in infiltrating the C.C.F. in Port Alberni. Relations between the C.C.F. and the Communist Party. Most Scandinavians were social democrats. The 1945 federal election. A.W. Neill, the former member for Comox-Alberni. More on the 1945 federal election. Did not run in 1949. The Japanese-Canadians as an issue in the 1945 election. TRACK 2: More on Japanese-Canadians. The federal election of 1953: Barnett elected for the first time. Election night, 1953. Took leave of absence from his job at Tahsis Company immediately after election. Barnett's personal financial situation, 1953. Salaries of MPs. Barnett's first trip to Ottawa, 1953. Initial impressions of Ottawa. Getting used to Ottawa. CALL NUMBER: T1360:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): (untitled) PERIOD COVERED: 1953-[no date] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Living arrangements in Ottawa: The Coburg Street Caucus. Introduction to the House of Commons. Parliamentary openings described. Throne Speech debate described. Barnett's maiden address. Parliamentary decorum in the 1950s. The issue of the recognition of the People's Republic of China. The Quebec "Independents". Barnett's seat in the House of Commons. The "lobbies" of the House of Commons. Informal co-operation between the parties. The development of "question period". TRACK 2: [blank?] (End of interview.)

CALL NUMBER: T1384:0001 item 01 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William C. Jones : reminiscences about life in Powell River RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1973-05-10 SUMMARY: Mr. Jones came to Powell River in 1926. Electrician. Discusses CCF Party, communists.;

CALL NUMBER: T1384:0001 item 02 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold and Margaret Doran : reminiscences about life in Powell River RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1973-05-14 SUMMARY: Mr. Doran, an electrician, grew up in Powell River; worked on tug boats; business [in] Vancouver; started furniture store 1935.;

CALL NUMBER: T1384:0001 item 03 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack and Elenora Fletcher : reminiscences about life in Powell River RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1973-03? SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher managed a clothing business from 1926.;

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0014 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1945 RECORDED: Glenmerry (B.C.), 1983-08-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Started work at Cominco in 1925. Elected to Workmen's Cooperative Committee in 1934. General member for six months, then elected to Secretary. Elected from lead burners. List of full time positions. Benefits of WCC for workers on the hill; pension, coal, wood, Christmas turkey and bonus. Anecdote about Christmas bonus. Dealing with men was hard. Company shares. Company financed housing scheme. Rules of WCC. WCC never had any serious complaints. Lead poisoning. Company farm. Dealing with Blaylock. Blaylock and power. Delegate to War Prices and Trade Board. Anecdote about Blaylock's power. WCC lobbies anti-company union bill. Women on hill during the war. CIO comes to Trail. Slim Evans. Harvey Murphy good organiser. Murphy a "red rabble rouser". Dollar a day and got rid of bonus system. Blaylock would have gotten rid of union if he had lived. Campbell talked to CIO in Seattle. Tried to organise for CIO before he was elected to WCC. WCC met on company time to organise against Mine/Mill. WCC formed ISWU. Secretary of ISWU. TRACK 2: WCC bulletins printed by Trail Ad News. The Ad News owned by Elmer Hall. Anecdote about Hall. Campbell saved Hall's life. WCC intervened if men were fired. WCC on wage raises. Blaylock hated unions so paid good wages. WCC sets up ISWU. Jointed Mine Mill after they were certified. How he was elected to WCC. Mine Mill members on WCC. Turnover causes WCC decline. Anecdote about Blaylock and working conditions. Coal committee. Blaylock and WCC. 1917 strike. Profit sharing. WCC beginnings. Wage board. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0015 PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1945 RECORDED: Glenmerry (B.C.), 1983-08-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Workmen's Cooperative Committee on company wage board. Pension calculations. His wages and bonus. Satisfaction of men. Murphy tried to recruit him. Bulletins and Murphy. Elmer Hall and editorial comment. WCC and community chest. Patriotic and welfare society give money for Croatian relief. Blaylock offers company lawyers. Steelworkers organising in 1950. Billingsley remembered well. John ;McPeak took over as organiser. Meetings in Trail with Bert Herridge. Tom Uphill from Fernie. WCC lobbies for liquor law change. Uphill praises WCC. WCC lobbies for Workmen's Compensation changes. Silicosis in mines. Benevolent society payments. WCC medical committee and company medical care. Company helped with hospital maintenance. Work hours before the Depression. single men's hours. Company town. Steady work. Holidays lost during the Depression. Company store and West Kootenay Power's medical plan. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0004:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Elio Canuel discusses his role as a harbour union organizer PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1950 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: William Elio Canuel discusses coming to Maillardville in 1917. Working for Fraser Mills until 1931. Organizing workers into a union for better working conditions and wages. Relations with Oriental community. Impact of the Depression in 1930s. Union organizer Harold Pritchet. Fraser Mill's strike in 1931. Violence during strike. Being blacklisted and losing job. Organizing people on relief during the Depression and the forming of a co-operative for people in Maillardville. TRACK 2: Problems people faced during the Depression. Organizing the unemployed during 1935. Description of the Battle of Ballantyne Pier, 1935; longshoremens' demonstration. Post Office Riot. Joining the Communist Party in 1933. Communist Party Organization in Coquitlam. Organizing Fraser Mills for the IWA. Work during WWII. Participation in the Roman Catholic Church. CALL NUMBER: T0004:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Elio Canuel discusses Maillardville, ethnic groups and attitudes of 1917 PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1972 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: William Canuel discusses early life in Maillardville about 1917. Racial relations between different ethnic groups including: Japanese-Canadians, French-Canadians, Chinese-Canadians, East Indian-Canadians. Quality of life in Maillardville. TRACK 2: Description of Fraser Mills as a place to work, ethnic groups working there and racial relations in the early days. Description of various ethnic communities. Work in logging camps. CALL NUMBER: T0004:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Elio Canuel discusses work as a carpenter and his personal philosophy PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1972 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: William Canuel discusses working in the construction industry during the 1930s. Working in the Cariboo region in the 1920s. TRACK 2: More details on the Communist Party of Canada. General discussion of his personal philosophy.