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Articles and Other Sources

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Dooley, Michael Kevin. “Our Mickey: The Story of Private James O’Rourke, VC.MM (CEF), 1879–1957.” Labour/Le Travail, vol. 47 (Spring 2001). http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/view/5223/6092.

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Howard, Irene. “The Mothers’ Council of Vancouver: Holding the Fort for the Unemployed, 1935–1938.” BC Studies, nos. 69–70 (Spring/Summer 1986). http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1234/1278.

International Union of Operating Engineers. “Firing Iron: A History of IUOE Local 115.” Compiled for the local union’s Diamond Jubilee, December, 2006. https://www.iuoe115.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IUOE-115-Firing-Iron-2006.pdf.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Searching for Workers’ Solidarity: The One Big Union and the Victoria General Strike of 1919. Labour/Le Travail, vol. 60 (Fall 2007). http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GVTA-1919-Strike-Final_web.pdf.

Isitt, Benjamin, and Melissa Moroz. “The Hospital Employees’ Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia.” International Labour and Working-Class History, no. 71 (Spring 2007). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-labor-and-working-class-history/article/div-classtitlethe-hospital-employeesandapos-union-strike-and-the-privatization-of-medicare-in-british-columbia-canadadiv/7670BDC8BDCB7E7386CD116BF463B051.

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Knox, Paul Graham. “The Passage of Bill 39: Reform and Repression in British Columbia’s Labour Policy.” Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1972. https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/831/1.0099887/1.

Lang, Dr. Ronald W. “Open Letter on Wage Controls and the CLC.” 2010. https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/rneedham/sites/ca.rneedham/files/documents/WageControlsandTheCLC.pdf.

Langford, Tom, and Chris Frazer. “The Cold War and Working-Class Politics in the Coal Mining Communities of the Crowsnest Pass, 1945–1958.” Labour/Le Travail, vol. 49 (Spring 2002). http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/view/5253/6123.

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Loosmore, Thomas Robert. “The British Columbia Labour Movement and Political Action, 1879–1906.” Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1954. https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0107058.

Marcuse, Gary. “Labour’s Cold War: The Story of a Union That Was Not Purged.” Labour/Le Travail, vol. 22 (Fall 1988). http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/view/4698/5571.

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McDonald, Ian. “Class Conflict and Political Factionalism: A History of Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.” Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1986. summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/6361/b16608768.pdf.

Mouat, Jeremy. “The Politics of Coal: A Study of the Wellington Miners’ Strike of 1890–91.” BC Studies, no. 77 (Spring 1988). http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1281/1323.

Nicol, Janet Mary. “Unions Aren’t Native: The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute, Vancouver, B.C. (1978–1983).” The Journal of Canadian Labour Studies, vol. 40 (Autumn 1997).

Parker, Peter. “We Are Not Beggars: Political Genesis of the Native Brotherhood, 1931–1951.” Master’s history thesis, Trent University, 1987. summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/3813/b14263452.pdf.

Parnaby, Andy. “We’ll Hang All Policemen from a Sour Apple Tree!: Class, Law, and the Politics of State Power in the Blubber Bay Strike of 1938–39.” Master of Arts thesis, Queen’s University, 1993. summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/6743/b17572988.pdf.

Rajala, Richard A. “Pulling Lumber: Indo-Canadians in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1900–1998.” British Columbia Historical News, vol. 36, no. 1 (Winter 2002–03). http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/bchf/bchn_2002_03_winter.pdf.

Ralston, Keith. “The 1900 Strike of Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Fishermen.” Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1965. https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0105476.

Rosenthal, Star. “Union Maids: Organized Women Workers in Vancouver 1900–1915.” BC Studies, no. 41 (Spring 1979). http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1011/1049.

Roy, Patricia. “The Preservation of the Peace in Vancouver: The Aftermath of the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1887.” BC Studies, no. 31 (Autumn 1976). ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/896/936.

Seager, Allen. “Socialists and Workers: The Western Canadian Coal Mines, 1900–1921.” Labour/Le Travail, vol. 16 (Fall 1985). https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/viewFile/2471/2874.

Smith, Julia Maureen. “Organizing the Unorganized: The Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), 1972–1986.” Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2007. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/9826.

Tam, April. “CAW History 2301: 55 Years of History from the Workers’ Voices.” History project, 2009. http://www.caw2301.ca/files/Projectforweb.pdf.

Verzuh, Ron. “The Underpants Speech: How an Angry Speech Paved the Way to Canada’s Communist Labour Purges of the 1950s.” June 14, 2014. http://www.ronverzuh.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Underpants-Speech.pdf.

White, Jim. “The Early History of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada,” 1982. https://www.ppwc.ca/ppwchist01.pdf

Williams, Jeanne Myers. “Ethnicity and Class Conflict at Maillardville/Fraser Mills: The Strike of 1931.” Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1982. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/6142.

In addition, many newspaper articles, particularly from the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Daily World and labour’s early paper, the BC Federationist, provided a rich source of material.