Items

• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Canadian Caucus Minutes 1947

  Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Canadian Caucus Minutes April 1947. Vice President A.R. Johnstone. Sr. May Ansell Loc 28 Elected as Secretary
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Election promotional card 1947

  Convention held in at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 3, 1947. Election promotional card for C.T. McDonough General Secretary--Treasurer of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' International Leagure of America. Collected by May Ansell [Martin].
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Anti-Communist Small publications collection of May Ansell [Martin] 1947

  Convention held in at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 3, 1947. Anti-Communist Small publications collected by May Ansell [Martin]
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Newspaper clippings collection of May Ansell [Martin] 1947

  Convention held in at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 3, 1947. Ephemera collected by May Ansell [Martin]. Newspaper clippings.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 13 and 17, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: Correspondence between Archive R. Johnstone (Nov 13) and May Leniczek (Nov 1re establishment of a dual union.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 12, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Notice to all HREU Members 2. Multiple stapled notes, papers 3. Handwritten notice of meeting, Nov 12, 2 pages
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 10, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Public Statement on HREU Loc 28 paper 2. Letter from Archie Johnstone, annotated
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 6,8,9 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Letter from Vancouver, New Westminster District Trades and Labor Council to May Leniczek Nov 6. 2.Notice of all-members meeting to be held November 9th, 1947 3. Letter to Archie R. Johnstone from May Leniczek, Sec. Bus. Agent HREU Local 28 asking him to attend special meeting of November 8th. 4. Minutes of the Citizens meeting Nov 9th. (2 images)
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 3, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Letter to be read at Meeting from Bro. James G. Lyons, Trustee Local 28; 2. HREU Loc 28 notice of special meeting sent out by Archie Johnstone, International Vice President Trustee, Local 28.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 1, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1937 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Letter From Stanton and Munro to The Hon. J.W. DeB. Farris, Barrister and Solicitor re Archive Johnstone breaking HREU constitution that internal disputes are not taken to the press. November 1, 1947. Page 1 and 2. 2. Public Statement from HREU Local 28 regarding news coverage.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: October 28, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes the following 1947 minutes: Special Executive Meeting Oct 18; Special Executive Meeting Oct 30; Special Meeting November 2; Special Executive meetings, convened between membership meetings, November 3; Special Joint Executive and Shop Stewards Meeting, November 7; State of of the Executive Committee, p1 and p2.
• You Can't Scare Me...I'm Stickin' to the Union: Women in British Columbia During the Great Depression

  A history of the organizing women in the 1930s. Constraints on labour, Women's labour leagues, fishing industry militancy, restaurant strikes, domestic workers conditions, garment workers, saleswomen,
• Do women trade unionists tell the truth? Some thoughts on oral history and the intrepretation of the past.

  An essay by Sara Diamond arguing for the value of women's subjectivities related to everyday lives as recorded in oral histories. A notation on the top of the page in Diamond's handwriting suggests this might become the intro to her unpublished manuscript on women's labour history in British Columbia.
• Jonnie Rankin Interview [Parts 2 and 3]

  In Part 2 of 3, Johnnie Rankin discusses the position of women within the Boilermakers Union and the types of jobs she worked at the shipyard. She also discusses childcare, equal pay, and the existence of issues specific to women. She talks about what she learned from the trade unions, and how working changed her life. Finally, she discusses working in restaurants and approaching the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union. In Part 3 of 3, Johnnie Rankin discusses organizing in restaurants, going to business school, the 1946 strike and the role of women within it, the creation of the Labour Theatre Guild, and the political impact working during the war had on her.
• Daisy Brown Interview

  Daisy Brown was the office manager of the Hotel, and Restauarant Employees Union Local 28. She discusses her years with the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union and building service union’s joint campaign to organize Vancouver hotels 1946-1947; the high number of single women parents and deserted wives working in the industry; the weakness of the union in comparison to industrial or skilled craft unions due to isolation of the workers; the difficulties the transient nature of the work and continuous shifts posed for organizers; issues of overtime, shift changes, uniforms, seniority; establishing the 40-hour work week; The Only Fish and Chips and Love’s Cafe, Vancouver; deposing the local HREU leadership in 1947 barring them from the office and membership in the union because of their left leanings.
• Researcher notes: Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 activities

  Notes by researcher Sara Diamond from her late 1970s-early 1980s Women's Labour History Project. Diamond's notes are written in cursive and assembled in three parts. Does not always follow chronological order. 1930s-1940s
• Public Statement HREU

  A call to action in response to the expulsion of current female leadership from the HREU and likely predicated on their Communist affiliation. The front page is a Public statement released by the Hotel Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 from the Executive Board Emily Watts, May Leniczek, Roy Moore. Back page proposes the BC Federation of Hotel, Restaurant and Allied Service Workers. A call to action in response to the expulsion of current female leadership from the HREU and likely predicated on their Communist affiliation.
• [Union Hotels as at August 11th 1947]

  List of union hotels as of August 11th, 1947. The HREU was undertaking a major campaign to unionize them.
• A Brief History of SORWUC

  A brief history of SORWUC, published by SORWUC.
• Keeping the Home Fires Burning

  Combining original Canadian wartime propaganda, interviews with women workers, original footage and photographs, musical soundtracks and dramatization, KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING explores the unique experience of Canada s working women during World War Two. Produced 1988. Duration: 49:00
• Emily Nuttall Interview (3/5)

  Emily Nuttall discusses difficulties with organizing in restaurants (lots of turnover, its consideration as “women’s work”), changes in outlook on the profession from the Depression, her involvement with hotel organizing (particularly in the Georgia Hotel and the Belmont Hotel), and the union’s work towards shorter work weeks and the elimination of split shifts.
• Chambermaids to Whistle Punks: select manuscript chapter drafts

  Draft chapters from Sara Diamond's unpublished book manuscript, Chambermaids to Whistle Punks
• Fit To Be Tied script

  The script for the Women's Labour History Project video, Fit To Be Tied. Documents the lives of hard-working, spirited women during the depression era. Drawing upon oral history, archival footage, and a poetic layering of photographs, film clips, and dramatic re-enactment, the video covers such issues as womens poverty, labour activism, reproduction, feminism, and the rise of fascism in the 30s.
• Fit To Be Tied

  Fit To Be Tied documents the lives of hard-working, spirited women during the Depression era. Drawing upon oral history, archival footage, and a poetic layering of photographs, film clips, and dramatic re-enactment, the video covers such issues as womens poverty, labour activism, reproduction, feminism, and the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
• [Unidentified chambermaids or waitresses]

  Unidentified chambermaids or waitresses. c.1930s. This was possibly taken in Nova Scotia where May Ansell [Martin] did organizing work.