Items

• Chambermaids to Whistle Punks: select manuscript chapter drafts

  Draft chapters from Sara Diamond's unpublished book manuscript, Chambermaids to Whistle Punks
• NFB Guest Program and Youth Program at RAJA
• [IMAGeNation 6th annual Aboriginal film and video festival poster]
• 200 mb video
• [Schedule for IMAGeNation film festival theme: Indigenous inter-FACES]
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• [Festival prices]
• Indigenous Media Arts Group Organizational Chart
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• [The Daily Province delivery boys in front of the building at 138 West Hastings Street]

  Photograph shows a sign for the British Columbia Printing and Engraving Corporation Lithographers and Printers office
• [Hospital staff at VGH]

  Item is a photograph showing a group of nurses and [orderlies?] relaxing in a lounge, sewing, talking, reading and playing a music record.
• [Horse and handler at stables]
• [Eleanor Collins singing with her band]
• multiple videos
• Dismissed Girls Parade To City Hall (Sep 25, 1937)

  Newspaper article documents the first action taken by White waitresses working in Chinatown Restaurants during a morality crackdown by the Mayor's Office and the Vancouver Police. Three Chinese-owned restaurants are threatened with having their licenses pulled if they continue to hire White waitresses. The waitresses argue that they prefer to work for Chinese restaurant owners and can't afford to lose their jobs.
• Labor Council Nominations: Colored Man Declares War on Trades Movement

  Newspaper arcticle includes segment about Hugh T. Simmons, a Black, British Subject from Jamaica, living in Port Alberni, and resident of the province for 22 years. Simmons stated he would enter politics due to being denied employed as a result of the racism of longshoremen and mill workers in Alberni. The Trades and Labor Council Secretary wrote in reply that the "international labor organization was founded on the principles of equality, with no recognition of creed or color." and that the labor in question were not affiliated with organized labor so the council could not act.
• pdf and video
• image and pdf
• Union Urges Cafe Night Shifts

  A newspaper article documenting the HREU (AFL)'s call for changes to shift work in cafes and restaurants, following the murder of waitress Olga Hawryluk by a customer. She had been returning home from work at 3am. Speaking for HREU are Mrs. Emily Watts, HREU organizer, and Mrs. May Ansell [AKA Martin], HREU Business Agent.
• Vancouver Women's Caucus

  Feminist group established at Simon Fraser University in 1968, moving off-campus to Vancouver in 1969. The Women's Caucus organized demonstrations, discussions, and abortion counseling, dealing with issues such as jobs, education, and society's responsibility for children. In 1969 it founded the feminist newspaper, The Pedestal (later known as Women Can), and in 1970 it organized the Abortion Caravan to Ottawa. By 1971, the group had divided into issues-oriented ogranizations. In 1974, women students at SFU revived the SFU Women's Caucus, obtained club status in the Simon Fraser Students Society (SFSS), and opened the SFU Women's Centre. At that point, the SFU Women's Caucus developed into the Women's Centre Steering Committee.
• Muckamuck stew is back at the LRB (May 14, 1980)

  Strikebreaking Muckamuck employees appear for 2nd time in front of Labor Relations Board in attempt to break ties with SORWUC.
• Muckamuck employees withdraw application (May 15, 1980)

  Strikebreaking employees Muckamuck restaurant withdraws 2nd application for decertification. Employees would not provide a reason for withdrawal.
• Muckamuck Told: No contract, no business (Feb 19, 1981)

  A newspaper article. SORWUC spokesperson Jenny Moses talks about the status of the Muckamuck strike ongoing since June 1, 1978 and at the time, British Columbia's longest running strike. SORWUC spokesperson Jenny Moses talks about their strategy and the growth of their union.
• 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.