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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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Head sawyer, Hammond Mill, BCFP RECORDED: Maple Ridge (B.C.), 1975-02-26 SUMMARY: First job in 1944 at the Hammond Cedar Co.; returned to Hammond in 1947; learning how to saw; changes in equipment; methods of operation; descriptions of job and types of decisions made on logs; quality of logs; production in the mill.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1974?] SUMMARY: Hylda Robertson was an office clerk for Hammond Cedar Co. from 1924 until 1961, when she retired as statistics clerk. (See "First Growth: The Story of BC Forest Products Ltd.", p. 188.)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hammond Cedar Company, 1921-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-16 SUMMARY: Started work at Hammond Cedar Mill in 1921; operation of the Hammond Cedar Mill on the Fraser River; modifications to the mill in the 1920s; the Hammond Cedar baseball team; problems for the mill in the early 1930s; Hope was a councilman starting in 1929; problems of relief and unemployment; more on the mill's economic problems during the Depression; changes in the mill during the Second World War; wages; takeover by BCFP in 1946.