Stevens, Homer

STEVENS, Homer, union leader (b 2 Aug 1923, Port Guichon; d Oct 2002, Nanaimo). He began fishing when he was 13, gillnetting with a boat owned by his father. In 1946 he became a full-time organizer for the UNITED FISHERMEN AND ALLIED WORKERS' UNION. As leader of the union from 1948 to 1977 he was one of the most prominent and controversial LABOUR leaders in BC. He was a high-profile Communist, and he ran unsuccessfully several times for the Labour Progressive Party in provincial and federal...

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