HREU Local 28 Response to White Waitresses in Chinatown Unemployment

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Identifier: Research selection - Oct 4 1937
Title: HREU Local 28 Response to White Waitresses in Chinatown Unemployment
Description: A the Regular Business Meeting of Local 28 held October 4, 1937, a resolution was unanimously passed to send a letter to Vancouver City Council saying the White waitresses in the Chinese restaurants "dismissed through the actions of City Council be supported by the Council at the same rate of pay they formerly received from their Chinese employers" as the women had been denied relief. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 minutes to not include a copy of the letter, who brought the issue forward, or the response of the City.
Format: JPGs, 3
Type: Meeting minutes excerpt; Newspaper article, 2
Creator: The Vancouver Sun; The Province; Hotel and Restaurant Employee's Union Local 28
Date Created: April 2024
Is Part Of: Ancestry.com; RBSC-ARC-1255 - Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary Employees' and Bartenders' Union, Local 40 fonds
Date: 1937-10-04

Theme: See all items with this value Labour
Sub-theme: Trade Unions
Subject: Waitresses; Restaurant sector working conditions; Depression era; Unemployment reflief program
Places, Locations and Nations: Unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.; Chinatown, Vancouver, Canada

Source: Newspapers.com; Hotel and Restaurant Employee's Union Local 28 Meeting Minutes
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