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HREU 1930s-1940s
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Women's Labour History Project: Summer 1979 Guide to Collection: Provincial Archives of British Columbia; SFU; BC Federation of LabourOral history summaries / guide to collection. Missing pages 21-24.
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Below Stairs: The Domestic Servant"Below the Stairs: The Domestic Servant" by Marilyn J. Barber.
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Women's Labour History in British Columbia: A Bibliography, 1930-48Bibliography of Women's Labour History in British Columbia, 1930-1948 compiled by Sara Diamond. Includes general sources, the depression years, the war years, and the immediate post-war period.
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Women's Labour History Project Guide to the Collection (1978-1979) Prepared by Sara DiamondWomen's Labour History Project Guide to Collection (1978-1979) prepared by Sara Diamond including women's labour history project interviewees and descriptions.
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Anne Marshall InterviewAn interview of Anne Marshall conducted by Sara Diamond. Marshall discusses her early life and move to B.C; her first introduction to trade unionism in 1924 when she met supporters of the Longshore strike at her waitressing job; protection and integration of immigrant workers; equal pensions for women; piecework; racism; wages and hours of work; policing the contracts.
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Suzie Fawcett Interview [Women's Labour History Project]An interview of Suzie Fawcett conducted by Sara Diamond. Fawcett discusses the difficulty of attaining training as a working class woman; waitress work at the Hotel Vancouver; working conditions in CNR owned hotels; the HREU’s attempt to organize the hotel in 1942; subsequent radicalization of staff; the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway and Transport and General Workers organizing CNR hotels; improvement in wages; Fawcett’s opposition to political unionism; raising two children while working full-time.
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Anita Anderson InterviewAn interview of Anita Anderson conducted by Sara Diamond. Anita describes how she and her sister’s politics and radicalization were influenced by the Longshore strike; Yugoslavian cultural activities in Vancouver; working as a busgirl; organizing waitresses with the Hotel and Restaurant Employee Union; blacklisting; the Yukon in the 1940’s.
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The Chocolate Shop CafeThe Chocolate Shop Cafe [160 West Hastings Street - interior staff group]
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Pete Pantages' new cafe "Peter Pan"Group portrait in front of 1180 Granville Street
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[HREU Local 28 Union Restaurant List]A list with the header, Union Restaurants, with the names of Vancouver restaurants that are members of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 in 1947.
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[Three waitresses pose outside The Empress Hotel, Victoria, Canada]Three waitresses pose outside the Canadian National Railway (CNR)-owned Empress Hotel In Victoria, Canada.
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Burrard Dry Dock passBurrard Dry Dock pass for Mary Ansell, HREU representative. Original: printed card with signature.