Daisy Brown Interview
Item
Descriptive Metadata
- Identifier
- OBJ-618-sideA-01; OBJ-618-sideB-01; transcript
- Title
- Daisy Brown Interview
- Description
- 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.
- Format
- MP3
- Type
- Audio recording
- Creator
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Women's Labour History Project
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Sara Diamond
- Date Created
- 2024-04-10
- Date
- 1979
Research, Contributions, Curation
- Contributor
- Daisy Brown
- Sub-theme
- Women and Trade Unions
- Places, Locations and Nations
- Vancouver.
- Unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Source
- Provenance
- The personal archive of Dr. Sara Diamond donated to the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive in 2018. It includes audio cassette dubs of the Women's Labour History Project oral histories. Simon Fraser University shared their digital files of interviews with the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive to assist in defraying costs of digitizing the Sara Diamond fonds.
- Access Rights
- For research purposes. Requires permission to publish. Please contact the archivist.
- Rights Holder
- Sara Diamond
- Resource class
- Sound
Interpretive Analysis
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