|
Back to L Index
Labour History collection. -- 1848-1996. -- 3 cm of textual records,
graphic material and sound recordings. -- 4 audio discs. -- 1 man's tie.
-- 2 oversize posters.
The collection consists of various items relating to Labour history.
- Tie has drawing of a man in chains with the caption: Repeal Taft Hartley
Law.
- Three audio discs were produced for the Canada Department of Labour
by the National Film Board of Canada. Their titles are: Technical and
Vocational - - -Training in Canada, Unemployment Insurance in Canada,
Labour Management in a Changing World. They are for use with filmstrips
which are not extant. One audio disc was issued by the Canada Department
of Labour. Its title is: Better Together, Main dans La Main.
- B&w group photograph of Ontario Independent Labour Convention, 1922.
- B&w (15) and col. (8) photographs, col. slides (9) of an unidentifed
strike relating to Branch 551. One sign reads "Fuddle Duddle Trudeau";
mimeographed material re a strike at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
in 1962.
- "Working Men's Association Tracts, The People Charter, 1848"
- Letter from the Ancient Order of United Workmen (A.O.U.W.) Grand Lodge
of Ontario, 27 October 1897.
- Two oversize photographs of employees taken in front of a factory, possibly
the B. Greening Wire Co. Ltd. in Hamilton, Ont.
Second accrual: Three photographs (50-2008): Men, horses and a wagon
outside a mine, ca. 1910; Delegates to the Ontario Provincial Conference
of Typographical Unions, St. Thomas, Ontario, 26 May 1914; Workers in
front of Taylor-Forbes Ltd., a radiator foundry, Guelph, Ont., March 1938.
Third accrual (77-2009): poster re strike of International Beverage Dispensers
and Bartenders Union, Local 289, Toronto; poster on board for "Labour
Council of Metro Toronto and York Region, 1871-1996"; one membership
card, 1937.
Fourth accrual (11-2010): St. John's Allied Printers' Union, Evening
Telegram strike, 1979, two printed documents, "Don't Scab"
and "Boycott the Telegram"
Researchers are also directed to the following. There are audio cassettes
in Audio collection that pertain to Canadian labour history; labour pamphlets
described in the Pamphlet
collection, trade union materials in the
Canadian Liberation fonds, and labour periodicals in Archives
and Research Collections periodical collection.
Title based on content of collection.
Date of acquisition and provenance are not known except for the Firestone
materials which were acquired some time before 2005 from James R. Featherstone.
A second accrual (50-2008) were acquired from Morris Norman in 2008. A
third accrual (77-2009) was acquired from Morris Norman in 2009.
Finding aid available at the collection level in hard copy and electronically.
There are no access restrictions.
Further accruals are not expected.
See also the following fonds and collections:
Amalgamated
Transit Workers, Local 107
Bricklayers
and Masons Union. Local 1
Canadian
railway labour negotiation
Canadian
Union of Public Employees. Area Office.
Canadian
Union of Public Employees. Local 5. Also other locals.
Hamilton
and District Labour Council
International
Association of Machinists. Local 414
International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 105
International
Pressman's Union Assistants. Local 176
International
Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Canadian District
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Local 205;
Local 1795;
Local 1824
Iron Molder's Union of North America. Local
26.
Local 28.
Mark Krakowski
Labor-Progressive
Party
Larry
Sefton
Services
Employees International Union
Edward
E. Seymour
United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Local 504/544
United
Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America
United
Mine Workers of America. Local 13083
United
Packinghouse Workers of America
United
Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America. Local 113
United
Steel Workers of America. District 6.
United
Steel Workers of America. Local 1005. Also many other locals.
|
