Items

• Women's Labour History Project: Summer 1979 Guide to Collection: Provincial Archives of British Columbia; SFU; BC Federation of Labour

  Oral history summaries / guide to collection. Missing pages 21-24.
• Women's Labour History Project Guide to the Collection (1978-1979) Prepared by Sara Diamond

  Women's Labour History Project Guide to Collection (1978-1979) prepared by Sara Diamond including women's labour history project interviewees and descriptions.
• Women's Labour History in British Columbia: A Bibliography, 1930-48

  Bibliography 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Report of the Vancouver Revolutionary Workers League Women's Caucus

  An internal report by Revolutionary Workers League members Cleo and Hildebrand on the need for a supported and sustained Women's Caucus within the RWL. Mention is made in support of a caucus for gay comrades as well.
• 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.
• Native Indian Woman Denied Relief; Sing as you Fight

  Newspaper clipping of "Native [Indigenous] Women Denied Relief" and "Sing as you Fight" song lyrics in BC Workers News.
• 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
• 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.
• Finding Aid - Sara Diamond fonds (SD)

  The Sara Diamond fonds spans her years in Vancouver as a member of the Revolutionary Workers League, Bread and Roses Collective, Amelia Productions, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the Coalition for the Right To View. There are extensive materials related to Diamond’s Women’s Labour History Project, Code Zebra, curatorial projects, critical writing, educational materials, and independent video art. Diamond's fonds include photographic negatives (35mm) and prints, documents and publications (approx. 30m), audio recordings ( 200+ 1/4# and compact cassette), video recordings (500+ 3/4# Umatic, Betacam, Mini-DV), wearable art, and ephemera.
• Emily Nuttall Interview (4/5) Excerpt

  Emily Nuttall talks about her experience at the Milwaukee Convention in 1947 and the subsequent International takeover of the HREU Local 28 office and her explulsion from the union.
• 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
• Be Labouring Women's Imagery: The Work of the Women's Labour History Project. A Personal / Public Narrative by Sara Diamond. Presented at a Winnipeg Conference.

  Essay manuscript for "Be Labouring Women's Imagery: The Work of the Women's Labour History Project - A Personal / Public Narrative" by Sara Diamond.
• A Brief History of SORWUC

  A brief history of SORWUC, published by SORWUC.
• A Bibliography of Women's Trade Union History in BC 1935 - 1950

  This is a bibliography of sources for research into the history of women in the B.C. trade union movement. It covers a fifteen year period: 1935-1950. These years were chosen because they represent a time of dramatic changes both in the position of women within production and of the ideology and strength of the organized labour movement in the province. The material in this bibliography is located in the Lower Mainland area. There is additional primary material in the Public Archives of British Columbia, located in Victoria. Permission is needed to use trade union archives. [From the Introduction]
• [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.
• [Unidentified chambermaids or waitresses]

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

  A photo of unidentified chambermaids or waitresses. c.1930s. This was possibly taken in Nova Scotia where May Martin did organizing work. Courtesy of May Martin.
• [Three waitresses pose outside The Empress Hotel, Victoria, Canada]

  Three waitresses pose outside the Canadian National Railway (CNR)-owned Empress Hotel In Victoria, Canada.
• [May Ansell (Martin) in automobile she and Ted Ansell drove from Windsor, Ontario.]

  A photo of May Ansell in the automobile that she and husband Ted Ansell drove from Windsor, Ontario, to Calgary, Alberta. They sold it in Calgary for cash and hitchhiked to Vancouver. April 1940.
• [March by BC Women in support of unions, better wages and working conditions.]

  A protest march by B.C. women in support of unions and better wages and working conditions.
• [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.