Labor Council Nominations: Colored Man Declares War on Trades Movement
Item
Descriptive Metadata
- Identifier
- The Province_Wed_Jul 3_1929
- Title
- Labor Council Nominations: Colored Man Declares War on Trades Movement
- Description
- 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.
- Format
- 1 newspaper article scan
- Type
- JPG
- Creator
- Ancestry
- Date Created
- July 3, 1929
- Date
- 1929
- 1920s
Research, Contributions, Curation
- Sub-theme
- Job discrimination
- Subject
- Racism
Source
- Source
- Newspapers.com
- Source Repository Description
- Online subscription-based newspaper archives owned by Ancestry. Images available for download and sharing.
- Access Rights
- Subscriber downloads are open access.
Contributed Metadata
- User Contributed Tag
- Anti-black racism
Other metadata
- Case Study
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Case Study 1
- Resource class
- Image
Interpretive Analysis
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