Aboriginal workers. See Indigenous workers
Ace Investigations, 153
Adams, Alfred, 120
Agricultural Compliance Team (ACT), 253, 276
Ainsworth, Jackie, 199, 200–202
Alberni Plywood, 115
Alberta Federation of Labour, 275
Alcan, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194
Alert Bay, 23
Alexander, Therese, 272
Alien Labour Act, 27
All-Canadian Congress of Labour (ACCL), 99, 108
Allevato, Carmen, 248
Allnutt, Chris, 255–58
Alsbury, Stewart, 132–33
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, 25
Amchitka Island nuclear test, 169
American Brotherhood of Carpenters, 24
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 41, 98, 128–30, 134, 141, 170–72
American Newspaper Guild, 178
Anaconda copper mine, 155
Anderson, Luis Retes, 283
Andstein, Cliff, 228, 239–41
Anthes Equipment Supply, 210
Anti-Inflation Board (AIB), 189–92
anti-scab law, 248, 252, 271
Anyox, 90
Archie, George, 74
Aristocratic Restaurant, 127
Arnett, John, 147
Arvay, Joseph, 265
asbestos, 280–82
Asbestos Research, Education and Advocacy Fund, 280
Asiatic Exclusion League, 71
Association of University and College Employees (AUCE), 203–4
Assu, Billy, 97
Assu, Harry, 97
Atkinson, Norm, 144, 146, 147
Austin, Gordon, 247
Ayukawa, Michiko, 74
Babine Forest Products, 273, 274
back-to-work order. See Bill 37; Bill 146
Baigent, John, 193, 248
Baird, Irene, 77
Bakers’ Society, 20
Bal, Amarjit Kaur, 276–77
Bal, Harsharan, 277
Baldrey, Keith, 258
Banks, Hal, 129–30
Barkerville, 7
Barnet, 36
Barrett, Dave, 174, 175, 182, 183, 187–88, 197–99, 205, 215–16, 222, 249
Barron, Susan, 258
Bartenders Union, 236
Baskin, Pen, 132
Battle of Ballantyne Pier, 93–95
Bauman, Robert, 258
BC and Yukon Building Trades Council, 210, 231–32
BC Civil Service Commission, 142
BC Communist Party, 134
BC Court of Appeal, 146, 165, 256, 269, 279
BC Electric Company, 110, 142
BC Employers’ Council, 176–78, 186, 197, 258
BC Federation of Labor (later Labour) (the Fed), viii, 43, 48, 49, 53, 57–60, 65–68, 99, 110, 126–27, 128, 131, 141, 142, 146, 148, 153–58, 162, 165–67, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174–88, 190, 194–95, 196, 198, 207, 209, 216, 222, 225, 228–29, 237–40, 241, 246, 249, 252, 260, 264–65, 269, 271, 274–78, 280, 282–84, 287, 288
BC Federation of Police Officers, 220
BC Ferry and Marine Workers Union, 198–99
BC Ferry Corporation, 198, 199
BC Fisheries Association, 22
BC Fishermen’s Union, 31–33
BC Forest Products, 237
BC Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU), 242–43, 249, 252, 267, 289
BC Government Employees’ Association (BCGEA), 125, 142, 171, 178, 218
BC Government Employees’ Union (BCGEU), 172, 187, 203–4, 215, 217, 220, 222, 224, 227–28, 242
BC Human Rights Tribunal, 284
BC Labour Code, 188, 238
BC Labour Relations Board, 191
BC Lumber Worker, 111
BC Miners Liberation League, 53, 54, 55
BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU), 152, 244, 245–46, 247
BC Packers Association, 35
BC Packers Ltd., 95
BC Rail, 187
BC Steamshipmen’s Society, 38
BC Supreme Court, 146, 154, 158, 165, 179, 186, 191, 193, 213, 237, 241, 256, 258, 261, 266, 279
BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), 125, 142, 174, 181, 182–83, 188, 213, 225, 226, 227–29, 239, 240, 241, 249, 252, 259–61, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 268–69, 270, 288
BC Teamsters Union, 168, 178, 182, 240
BC Telephone Company, 40, 67
BC Telephone Company (BC Tel, later Telus), 156, 175, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209
Bell, Pat, 277
Bell Farms, 212
Bell-Irving, Henry Ogle, 22, 32
Bengough, Percy, 129–30
Bennett, Bill, 188, 196–99, 205, 214–16, 220, 224–32, 235, 238, 255
Bennett, Keith, 236
Bennett, R.B., 75, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85–87, 102
Bennett, W.A.C., 136–37, 138, 142, 149, 154, 168, 171, 175, 181–82, 188, 231–32, 255
Bentall Tower IV, 209–11
Berger, Beverley, 175
Berger, Thomas (Tom), 146, 149, 174, 176, 182
Bergren, Myrtle, 111
Bernard, Elaine, 66
Berton, Pierre, 75
Bhatti, Mohinder, 278
Bill 2, 216, 224–29
Bill 3, 216, 224–29
Bill 12, 261–63
Bill 19 and Bill 20, 238, 240, 241, 242, 248
Bill 22, 266–69
Bill 27, 260
Bill 28, 260, 266–68
Bill 29, 254–56, 260, 264–66
Bill 33, 170, 179
Bill 37, 257–58, 259, 279–80
Bill 39, 100–101, 106, 126–27, 128
Bill 146, 187–89
Billings, John, 177
Bishop, Billy, 93
Black, Bill, 174
Black, George, 85
Black, Wesley, 178
Blakeney, Allan, 190
Bloody Sunday, 102, 103, 104, 105
Blubber Bay, Texada Island, 98, 100–101, 102
Boal, Sarwan, 211
Boeing, 107, 108, 114
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders’ Union of Canada, 108–10, 113, 158
Bond, Shirley, 274
Bonner, Robert, 167
Bouchette, Bob, 92
Bowcott, Matthew, 275
Bowen Island, 63
Bows and Arrows Union, 2, 10, 41, 120
Bowser, William J., 43, 53
Boyce, Ed, 27
Boyce, Tully, 19–20
Braaten, Orville, 150–51, 154
Braid, Kate, 203
Brar, Jasweer Kaur, 213
Britannia Beach, 155
British American Oil, 166
British Colonist, 18
The British Columbia Federationist, 43, 49, 57, 62, 66
The British Columbian, 88
Broadfoot, Barry, 119
Brodie, Steve, 79, 103–5
Brown, Brenda, 261–62
Brown, George, 92, 156–58
Brown, Rosemary, 185
Bryant, Bill, 209
“bugging caper,” 153, 154
Bulfone, Eno, 280
Bulfone, Loretta, 280
Burke, John “Paddy,” 150
Burnaby Now, 211
Burrard Dry Dock, ix, 114
Burton, Peter, 191–93
Butt, Sheree, 200
Cabico, Jade, 258
Calder, Frank, 121
Calgary, 83
Calgary Albertan, 83
Cambie, Henry, 15
Cameron, Peter, 246, 247, 267
Campagnolo, Iona, 165
Campbell, Gordon, 252–55, 260, 263–66, 271
Campbell, Kim, 227
Campbell, Lucy, 274
Canada Fish Company, 204
Canada Labour Code, 162–63
Canada Labour Relations Board (CLRB), 199–202
Canada Line, 283, 284
Canada Rice Mills, 166
Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW), 149, 152, 153, 159, 238, 240, 267, 282
Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers (CASAW), 153, 181, 191–94
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), 287
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 279
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 256, 265
Canadian Collieries, 50–51
Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), 108–10, 127–30, 131, 132–35, 138, 141, 142
Canadian Electrical Workers (CEW), 158–59
Canadian Farmworkers’ Union (CFU), 211, 212–13, 278
Canadian Intelligence Corps, 119
Canadian Ironworkers Union, 148, 149–50
Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), 90, 148–49, 150–52, 155, 165, 171–74, 190, 194, 202, 211, 236–38, 260, 275, 282, 286–87
Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre, 238
Canadian Labour Party, 137
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, 124, 167
Canadian Merchant Service Guild (CMSG), 178, 179
Canadian Northern Railway, 43, 45, 50
Canadian Pacific Railway, 14–15, 16, 39
Canadian Paperworkers Union (CPU), 154, 186–89, 229, 250
Canadian Seamen’s Union (CSU), 129, 130, 148
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), 125, 130, 172, 173, 174, 177, 204, 218, 220, 222, 236, 242, 257, 258, 259–61–64, 268, 275
Canadian White Pine Company, 162
canning industry, 22–24, 31–33
Capilano, Chief Joe, 2, 10, 41
capitalism, 56, 58, 89, 128
Carr, Shirley, 236
Carvell Hall Cooperative, 62
Casey, Tommy Joe, 153
Casselton, Val, 253
Castlegar, 151
Cavanaugh, Judy, 211
Ceraldi, Tony, 282
Chan, Jimmy, 278
Chaplin, Ralph, 289
Chapman, Dave, 167
Charlie, Carl, 272, 274
Chavez, Cesar, 168, 169, 212
Chelohsin (steamship), 102
Chemainus mill, 111
child workers, 279–80
Chilliwack prison camp, 163
Chinatown Riot, 21
Chinese Exclusion Act (1923), 73, 121
Chinese workers, 2, 7, 10, 12, 14, 14, 15–16, 18, 20–22, 30, 31, 60, 65–66; cannery workers, 96; immigration restrictions, 73; limestone workers, 100–101, 102; lumber mill workers, 71, 87, 89; miners, 51–52; prejudice against, 117
Choi Mushroom, 213
Chouhan, Raj, 211–12
Christian Labour Association, 185
Chudnovsky, David, 252, 260
Citizenship Act, 121
Clark, Bill, 207, 208
Clark, Christy, 260, 267, 268
Clark, Glen, 252–53
Clarke, Tom, 158
Coal Creek Mine, 28
Coalminers’ Mutual Protective Society, 13
Cold War, 128, 135
Collective Bargaining Rights Day, 265
College of Teachers, 239, 261
Cominco, 196
Common Good Credit Union, x
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, 287
Communist International (Comintern), 76, 98
Communist Party of Canada (CP), 60, 76, 89, 108, 128, 130–32, 135–37
Community Savings, x
Community Savings Credit Union, xi
Comox, 88
company unions, 71, 95
Compensation Stabilization Program (CSP), 214
Confederation of Canadian Unions, 153, 240
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 69, 99–100, 108, 110, 134, 141, 170–72
Connaghan, Chuck, 176
Connors, Stompin’ Tom, 145
Conroy, Pat, 131
conscription, 57, 58, 60, 65, 119
Conservative Party, 136
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, 109, 125
Constable, Tom, 157
Constitution Act, 143
Construction Industry Safety Inquiry, 210
Construction Labour Relations Association (CLRA), 176, 177
Construction Safety Advisory Council, 211
Continental Times. See Tairiku Nippo (Continental Times)
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), 60, 68, 89, 90, 91, 106–10, 128–30, 135–36, 139, 142, 148–49
Coote, Lillian, 64
Copeland, Leona, 67
Coquitlam, 88
Corbin, 90
Corbin Miners’ Association, 90
Cordero, German, 283
Corporate Tax Freedom Day, 252, 253
Cosgrove, Jack, 84
Country Farms Natural Foods, 213
Couvreux, Gunther, 209–10
Cowichan, 34, 121
Cox, Bill, 151
craft unions, 41, 99, 108, 125, 141, 142
Craig, Lloyd, 153
Craigellachie, 15
credit unions, x, xi
Crofton, 151
Crombie, William Claude David, 71
Crowsnest Pass, 28, 44, 68, 125
Cull, Elizabeth, 247
Cumberland, 50–51, 56, 59, 60
Curtis, Hugh, 216
The Daily People, 74
The Daily Province, 109
Daily Times, 207
Dalskog, Ernie, 90, 133, 134
Dalton, Gordon, 192
Darcy, Judy, 258, 265
Davis, Arnie, 179
Davis, Bill, 205
Davis, Carol, 209
Davis, Donald, 209
Dawson, Isabel, 182
Dean, Jimmy, 145
Deas, John Sullivan, 22
Decaire, John, 275
Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union, 165
Demers, Paul, 280
Denny’s restaurants, 284
Deol, Jarnail Singh, 212
Department of National Defence, 79
De Patie, Corrine, 276
De Patie, Doug, 275, 276
De Patie, Grant, 275, 276
Dewhurst, Violet, 127
Diamond, Sara, 123
Disher, Bruce, 272
Ditchburn, W.E., 74
Dix, Adrian, 267
Dobell, Ken, 263
Dohm, Thomas, 165, 179
Dominion Bridge, 145–49
Dominion Construction, 210
Dominion Police, 58–59
Donald, Ian, 200, 269
Dougan, Mildred, 94–95
Douglas, James, 5–7
Douglas, Tommy, 149
Douglas Treaties, 7
Doust, Leonard, 263
Driedger, Peter, 172
Dumier, Mike, 242
Dunsmuir, James, 17–20, 50
Dunsmuir, Robert, 6–7, 12–14, 18–19, 190
R. Dunsmuir & Sons, 27
East Wellington Coal Company, 19
Eddison, Norm, 146–47
Edward VII, 41
eight- or nine-hour day, 24, 25, 27, 30, 43, 64, 112, 122, 123
elections (BC): 1890, 25; 1894, 26; 1898, 27; 1901 Nanaimo, 29; 1903, 30; 1907, 30; 1916, 59; 1933, 90; 1952, 136, 139; 1953, 138; 1960, 148; 1969, 175, 182; 1972, 181–82, 183; 1975, 188; 1979, 205; 1982 Kamloops, 215; 1986, 235; 1991, 247; 1996, 252–54; 2001, 253–54; 2005, 260, 264; 2013, 267; 2017, 287–88; disenfranchisement of immigrants, 37, 62; disenfranchisement of Indigenous peoples, 119; enfranchisement of Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese and South Asian peoples, 121
Elliott, Dave, 46
Emery, Ivan, 92–94
Employment Security Agreement, 248
Employment Standards Act, 249, 279
Employment Standards Branch, 235
environmentalists, 250, 251
Evans, Arthur H. “Slim,” 77–81, 84, 85, 103
Ewen, Alexander, 22
Ewens cannery, 35
Expo 86, 231, 232, 233
The Express, 178
Extension, 50–54
Fadling, James, 132
Farkas, Mike, 133
Farm Workers Organizing Committee (FWOC), 211
Farris, Wendell Burpee, 139
Fassbender, Peter, 267
the Fed. See BC Federation of Labor (later Labour)
Federated Labour Party, 137
Federated Timber Mills, 89
The Federationist, 67–68
Federation of Telephone Workers, 175
Feltis, Bob, 192
feminism, 199, 204
Ferguson, 27
Fernie, 28, 136, 137
Findlay, James, 44
Finlayson, Judith, 117
First Nations: Kwagiulth subgroup, 6; Kwakwaka’wakw, 6; Nahwitti subgroup, 6; Nlaka’pamux, 7; Nuu-chah-nulth, 47; Secwepemc, 74; Snuneymuxw subgroup, 6, 7; Squamish, 9, 71; Tsleil-Waututh, 9, 71; Vancouver Island, 7
First Nations workers. See Indigenous workers
The Fisherman, 117–18, 146, 147, 196, 274
Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, 96
Fishermen’s Industrial Union (FIU), 96
Fishermen’s Union, 35
fishing industry, 9, 10, 22–24, 31, 46–48, 95–97, 164, 196, 243
Fitzpatrick, Erin, 262
Floralia Plant Growers, 279
Ford, Doug, 280
Ford, Lesley, 280
Ford, Tracy, 280
Forest Industrial Relations (FIR), 177, 236–37
forest industry, 8–9, 36, 37, 46, 66, 71, 87–90, 112, 122, 180, 186–87, 235, 250, 272
Forest Practices Code, 251
Forest Renewal BC, 251
Forster, Thomas, 25
Fort Rupert, 6
Foster, William, 93–94
Fotheringham, Allan, 191
Foxcroft, Frances, 61
Framework Agreement, 256–57
Frank, David, 69
Fraser Institute, 252, 253
Fraser Mills, 87, 123–24
Fraser River Canneries Association, 31
Fraser River Fishermen’s Protective and Benevolent Association, 23–24
Fraser Valley, 211
free trade, 243
French, Diana, 259
Friedman, Milton, 216
Frontier College, 213
Fruit and Vegetable Workers, 109
Fryer, John, 172, 178, 215
fur seal hunt, 47
fur trade, 5
Fur Workers, 135
Gabelmann, Colin, 182–85
Gaglardi, Phil (“Flyin’ Phil”), 143, 182
Gainor, Chris, 252
Gardiner, Jimmy, 84–86
Gardiner, Ray, 175
Gardner, Bob, 102
Gardner, Ethel, 201
Gautier, Roy, 210, 231–34
Geddes, Jack, 86
Gee, George, 156
Gee, Marcus, 186
Gehring, Ron, 253
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 243
George, Chief Dan, 10
Georgetti, Ken, 238–40, 241, 246, 249
Gerbrand, Diedrich, 235
Gill, Charan, 211, 276
The Globe and Mail, 177, 181, 255, 269, 275
Godley, Elizabeth, 199
Goeldner, Dieter, 209
Golden, 82
The Golden Tree (sculpture), 277
gold rush, 7, 8
Gompers, Samuel, 20, 41–42
Goodwin, Albert “Ginger,” 58–59, 60, 61
Grafton, George, 111
Graham, Bud, 154
Graham, Deanna, 256
Grand Lodge of BC Fishermen, 34
Granduc copper mine, 155
Grant’s Law, 276
the Great Depression, 75–98, 105, 137
Great Northern Railway, 70
Great Vancouver Island Coal Strike, 50–56
Greenall, Thomas, 55
Green Party, 289
Greenpeace, 169, 251
Greenway Farms, 279
Grewal, Jawala Singh, 211
Griffin, Susan, 266–69
Gruntman, Art, 186–88, 229
Guadalupe, Jose, 279
Guardian (HEU), 256
Gulf of Georgia Cannery, 33
Gutteridge, Helena, 62, 63–64, 68, 90
Guttman, Eric, 146
Guy, Len, 170, 186–88, 195, 196, 198, 207
Gwynn, Hugh, 179
Haggard, Dave, 134, 251
Haida Gwaii. See Queen Charlotte Islands
Hamilton, Bill, 197
Hamilton, Nancy, 143
Hansen, Colin, 255
Hansen, Leif, 228
Hansman, Glen, 270
Hanson, John, 97
Hanson, Lyall, 238–40
Haraga, Mary, 119
Harcourt, Mike, 239, 244, 247–49, 252
Hare Krishnas, 185
Harmac, 153–54, 209
Harper, Stephen, 282
Hartman, Grace, 218
Harvey, James, 171
Hastings Park, 118
Hawthornthwaite, James W., 29, 30
Haynes, Ray, 162, 165–66, 168, 169, 170, 171, 177–83, 186
Haywood, Big Bill, 38
HD Mining, 284
Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act. See Bill 29
Health Labour Accord, 248, 254
Health Labour Adjustment Agency, 248, 254
Health Labour Relations Association (HLRA), 245–48
Health Sciences Association, 245–46, 247
Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, 282
Hedley Mascot gold mine, 125
Heinrich, Jack, 210
Henry, Chief Jimmy, 34
Hewer, Lyle, 272
Hewison, George, 164, 216
Hill, Cecil Henry, 104
Hill, Joe, 43
Hinde, John R., 55
Hitler, Adolf, 79
Hodgson, Stuart, 237
“Hold the Fort,” 85
Hole, Jack, 100
Holt, Danny, 133
Holt, Simma, 194
Home, George, 132
Home and Domestic Employees Union (HDEU) of British Columbia, 63
Hoop, W.H., 64
Hope, Allan, 209
Horbry, Ben, 59
Horgan, John, 287
Horne, George, 148
Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU), 174, 199, 204, 218, 222, 245–46, 247–48, 252, 254–55, 256–57, 258, 259, 264–65
Hoss Farms, 213
“house of labour,” 130
Hovi, Ted, 94
Howard, Stephen, 254
Howay, Frederic William, 43, 54
Hudson’s Bay Company, 6, 7, 162
Human Rights Commission, 216, 221
Hunt, Stephen, 271–74
Hunter, Bob, 169
Hunter, Justine, 275
Hutcheon, Henry, 186–87, 193, 237
Hutcheson, “Big Bill,” 98
Hutchison, Bruce, 136
Hutton, Jim, 179
Hyoto, Hide, 118
Iker, Jim, 266–68
Ilich, Olga, 277
Imperial Oil, 167
Inco, 156
Independent Canadian Transit Union (ICTU), 153
Independent Lumber Handlers’ Association (ILHA), 71
The Indian Voice, 201
Indigenous issues, 250–52
Indigenous workers, 4; cannery workers, 23, 24, 96; coal miners, 6, 7; fishermen, 9, 10–11, 22, 31–36, 46, 48, 97, 119; fur seal hunters, 47, 74; fur trappers, 5, 74; gold miners, 8; lumber handlers, 2, 41, 71; restaurant employees, 201; unions, 120
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (ICA). See Bill 39
Industrial News, 21
Industrial Relations Act. See Bill 19 and Bill 20
Industrial Relations Council (IRC), 238–41, 245, 247–48
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 31, 41, 42, 43–46, 55, 66, 289
Ingledew’s shoe store, 64
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), 227
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, 289
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, 144, 145, 146–49
International Association of Machinists, 114, 167
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), 40, 67, 156–58, 167, 169
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (Pulp Sulphite), 102, 125, 150–53, 154, 177, 180
International Labour Organization, 63
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), 110, 162, 163
International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), 69, 70, 71, 92
International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union (Mine Mill), 109, 110, 125, 131, 134, 135, 155–56, 224
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 67
International Transport Workers’ Federation, 148
International Typographical Union (ITU), 126, 170
International Union of Operating Engineers, 284
International Woodworkers of America (IWA), x, xi, 2, 98, 99, 100–101, 105, 110–12, 114, 121–22, 124, 128, 131–32, 133–34, 138–39, 148, 152–54, 158, 159, 160, 169, 170, 177–80, 186–89, 195, 196, 222–24, 228–29, 235, 236, 237
International Woodworkers of America – Canada (IWA–Canada), 238, 250–51, 268, 287
Iron River, 133
Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, 145
Ison, Terry, 186–88, 196–97
IWA Credit Union, x, xi
Jago, Charles, 266
James, Carole, 264
Jansema, Dirk, 280
Japanese Camp and Mill Worker’ Union (JCMWU), 74, 97
Japanese Fishermen’s Benevolent Society, 31–33
Japanese Fishermen’s Union, 117
Japanese workers. See Nikkei (Japanese) workers
Japanese Workers’ Union (JWU), 74
J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons, 231
Jensen Mushroom Farm, 211–12
Jingle Pot Mine, 52
Jobs and Timber Accord, 251
Johnson, Charlotte, 199
Johnson, Ron, 184–85
Johnston, George, 167, 170, 186, 196
Johnston, Mary, 263
Jones, “Mother” Mary Harris, 55–56
Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America, 62
Kamloops, 82
Kato, Shigeo, 73
Kaur, Pritam, 212
Kavanagh, Jack, 53, 68
Keith, Thomas, 25
Kelleher, Stephen, 227, 267
Kelly, Bill, 179, 208
Kelly’s Cut, 42
Kelowna Accord, 228–29, 238
Kennedy, Bill, 114
Kennedy, Peggy, 114–15
Kennelly, Brian, 259
Kenney, Jason, 284
Kerkhoff, Bill, 231, 234
Khatsalano, August Jack, 9
Ki-et-sa-kun, Chief, 6
King, Al, 156, 184
King, Bill, 183, 185–87, 248
King, Verna, 173
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 27, 75, 87, 104
Kinnaird, Jim, viii, 207–9, 214–16
Kirk, Bernice, 242
Kitimat, 180, 190–93
Klein, Phil, 83
Klein, Ralph, 83
Knight, Rolf, 10
Knights of Labor, 21–22
Knox, Paul, 128
Koerner, Steve, 218
Komagata Maru, 37
Kootenay Forest Products, 159
Kramer, Mike, 225–29
Krickan, Rudy, 183
Krieger, Kit, 252
Kristian, Kelsey Ann, 274
Kristiansen, Lyle, 188
Kruzic, Alice, 113–14
Kube, Art, 195, 216–18, 219, 222–23, 224, 225–29, 238, 286
Ku Klux Klan, 79
Labor Temple, Vancouver, 53, 56, 61, 64, 68
labour cartoons, 67
Labour Day, 25
Labourers’ International Union, 252, 283, 284
Labour Party, 55
labour pins, 68
Labour Progressive Party (LPP), 108–12, 130
Labour Relations Act, 138
Labour Relations Board (LRB), 128, 132–33, 138, 149, 153–54, 159, 184–86, 193–94, 197–99, 201, 207, 224, 227, 238, 241, 248, 259–61, 279, 283
The Labour Weekly, 74
Ladner, T.E., 22
Ladyman, William, 157, 167
Ladysmith, 51, 52, 53, 54–55
Lake Cowichan, 123
Lakeland Mills, 273, 274
Lambert, Colin, 275
Lambert, Susan, 266
Lamont, George, 89
Lang, Ron, 190
Langan, Joy, 228, 286
Langevin, Lisa, 203
Lanzinger, Irene, 274, 287, 288
LaPlante, Mary, 255
Lapointe, Marc, 202
Lary, Anna, 203
Laski, Harold, 89
Laur Wayne (boat), 111
LaVigne, Roy, 143
Lawson, Ed, 168, 178, 182
Lawson, Percy, 127
Lenkurt Electric, 156–57, 158
Lennon, Elizabeth J. Shilton, 202
Leslie, Graham, 234, 238–39
Lett, Sherwood, 145
Leung, 16
Levine, Gil, 172
Lewis, David, 90, 108
Lewis, John L., 98–99
Liberal Party (BC), 136, 189, 190, 253–55, 257, 260, 264–65, 271, 276
Linglei Lu, 14
Linsley, Harry, 86
List, Wilf, 181
Little, Alan, 273
Little, Stanley, 174
Loftus, Lee, 282
Loggers’ Navy, 111, 112
Long, Ed, 9
Longshoremen and Water Transport Workers of Canada, 92
Longshoremen’s Hall, Vancouver, 61
Loosmore, Thomas, 21
Lorrain, Henry, 151
Lower Mainland Budget Coalition, 222
Lower Mainland Solidarity Coalition, 222, 228
Luggi, Maureen, 274
Luggi, Robert, 272–74
Lumber Worker, 132
Lumber Workers Industrial Union (LWIU), 66–68, 69, 87–89, 99
Luna, Lucy, 279
Lutz, John, 10
MacDiarmid, Margaret, 273
MacDonald, Angus, 156–57
MacDonald, James, 158
Macdonald, John A., 16, 20
MacFarlan, Jim, 188
Machi, Sakhdarshanpar, 213
MacInnes, W.E., 142
MacInnis, Angus, 89, 90
MacInnis, Grace (née Woodsworth), 89, 90
Mackenzie, William Lyon, 104
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, 86
Mackin, Henry, 88
MacLean, Gordie, 144–45
MacLellan, Norm, 250
MacMillan, H.R., 9
MacNeil, Pat, 148
Macphee, Angus, 150, 151, 153
Madhar, Sukhdeep, 212
Mah, Roy, 2, 121
Mahil, Harinder, 211
Mahoney, Bill, 130, 131, 132–34
Maillardville, 87
Mairs, Joseph, 54, 55
Mancinelli, Joseph, 252
Manson, Alexander Malcolm M., 146, 147
Marabella Pacific Enterprises, 234
“Marching Mothers,” 165
Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union, ix, 139, 184
Martin, Tony, 84
Mathews, George, 70
Mathieson, Shirley, 198
Matkin, Jim, 238
May, Dorothy, 143
May Day, 79
McBride, Richard, 46, 51, 55
McCarthyism, 163
McCauley, Mike, 84
McClelland, Bob, 215
McCuish, John, 101, 111, 112
McDonald, Les, 157–58
McDonald, Murray, 145
McGeer, Gerry, 70, 79, 81, 91–94
McGeer, Pat, 197
McGrath, Tom, 146–47, 148, 149–50
McGuire, Alf, 207
McKee, Clive, 199
McKenzie, C.C., 25
McKenzie, Ken, 237
McKibbin, John, 145
McKinnon, Alex, 52
McLean, Bruce, 142
McMaster, Bob, 171
McMurphy, Elsie, 239, 240
McPherson, Debra, 246–47
Meatcutters’ Union, 170
Mediation Commission, 171, 174, 178, 180–81, 182–83, 241
Mediation Commission Act. See Bill 33
Mendoza, Magusig, 283
Michael, Jules, 17
Midgley, Victor, 61, 68
migrant farm workers, 278–79
militia, 53, 54
Millar, Charles, 85
Millard, Charles, 108
Mineoka, Tsuguo, 7
Miners’ and Mine Laborers’ Protective Association (MMLPA), 19–20
Mine Workers’ Union of Canada (MWOC), 90
Minimum Wage Board, 63–64
minimum-wage law, 62–64, 249, 288
mining disasters, 17, 18, 28, 50, 271–72
mining industry, iv, 6–7, 12, 13, 25, 27, 44, 68, 90, 100, 125
Ministry of Transport, 197
Mitchell, Ellen, xi
Mitrunen, Yrjo, 209
Miyazawa, Joe, 2, 121
Molson, John, 131
Money’s Mushrooms, 213
Moodyville Sawmill, 2
Moore, Arthur, 282
Moore, Jack, 157, 170, 179
Moose Jaw, 83
Mora, Franklin, 283
Morgan, Nigel, 112
Morning Leader, 58
Morris, Joe, 148, 190
Morrison, Brent, 194
Morrison, Hugh, 142
Morrison, John, 156
Morton, Desmond, 173
Mosher, Aaron, 108–9, 131
The Mothers’ Council, 79, 80
Mottishaw, Oscar, 50–51
Mouat, Jeremy, 19
Moyie silver mine, 38
Muckamuck Restaurant, 201
Muir, Archibald, 17
Mukhtiar Growers, 211
Mulroney, Brian, 243
Munro, Jack, xi, 159, 160, 186–88, 195, 196, 208, 224, 227–29, 235, 236, 237–39, 250, 286
Munro, John, 190
Munroe, Don, 237, 247
Munson, Veralynn, 264
Murphy, Harvey, 109, 110, 125, 131, 135, 156
Muzin, Fred, 255
Myers, Sam, 21
Nahanee, Ed, 120
Nahanee, William, 2
Nakusp, 183
Nanaimo, 6, 13, 18, 19–20, 52–54, 208
Nanaimo Laundry Workers’ Union, 127
Nasseri, Matthew, 278
National Day of Mourning, 274, 275
National Unemployed Workers’ Association, 88
National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), 125, 172–73
National Union of Public Service Employees (NUPSE), 172
Native Brotherhood of BC, 2, 119, 120
Native Sisterhood of BC, 120
Naylor, Joe, 60
Neale, Paddy, 157, 158, 161, 165, 171
Neilson, Peter, 86
Nelson, 160
Nelson, Ike, 171
Nelson, Peter, 84
Nelson Daily News, 159
New Democratic Party (NDP), 89–90, 109, 149, 150, 167, 174, 175, 181, 182, 183, 184–90, 195, 196–97, 199, 205, 215, 235, 239, 241, 244, 247–49, 250, 251, 253, 254, 259–60, 264, 271, 276, 282, 287–88, 289
Newspaper Guild, 289
New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company (NVCMLC), 19–20
The New York Times, 55
Nga, Trieu Thi, 278
Nichol, Jack, 164, 165, 243, 250
Nichol, Jan, 203
Nicholson, Jack, 163
Nicol, James, 12
Niehaus, Sheil, 259
Nikkei (Japanese) workers: branded “enemy aliens,” 117; cannery workers, 96; fishermen, 23–24, 31–34, 35, 36, 73, 118, 119; immigration restrictions, 73; internment during the war, 118; loggers, 73; lumber mill workers, 87, 89, 97; lumber workers, 2; teachers, 118
Nimpkish River, 9
Nimsick, Leo, 109
Nisga, 121
Nisga’a Treaty, 252
North, George, 146, 147
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 243
North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, 47
North Pacific Lumber Company, 36
Notre Dame University, Nelson, 197
Nuytten, Phil, 145
Oakalla prison, 54, 55, 94, 102, 146, 147, 165
O’Brien, Dan, 110, 126–27
O’Connor, Ed, 142–43, 171
O’Flynn, Sean, 246
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW), 166, 167–68, 171
O’Keeffe, Art, 157, 158
Onderdonk, Andrew, 14–16
O’Neal, Edward Patrick, 153
O’Neal, Pat, 148, 153, 154, 162, 177
One Big Union (OBU), 60, 65–74, 90, 110, 137, 156
O’Neil, Paddy, 84, 86
O’Neill, Barry, 264
Ontario Steelworkers, 108
On-to-Ottawa Trek, 81, 82–83, 103
Operation Engineers, 231
Operation Solidarity, 205, 206, 207–9, 214–29, 224, 235, 258, 286
O’Rourke, Michael J. “Mickey,” 93, 94, 95
Orris, Glen, 272
Pacific Coast Coal Colliery, 52
Pacific Coast Native Fishermen’s Association, 97, 119
Pacific Great Eastern Railway, 138
Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 238–39
Pacific Lime Company, 100–102
Papenbrock, Wiho, 192
Parks, John, 223
Paton, Nora, 244
Patterson, Scott, 274
Pattison, Jimmy, 232–34
Pattullo, Thomas Dufferin “Duff,” 100–102, 105–6
Paull, Andy, 120
Paystreak, 28
PC 1003 (order-in-council), 107
Peace Arch concert, 135
“Peace in the Woods,” 250
Pearl Harbour, 117
Pearse, Peter, 237
Pearson, George, 106, 109, 125, 128
Peck, Ed, 205–8, 214, 238–39
Pennyfarthing condominium, 231, 232
Pepin, Jean-Luc, 192
Perry, Clay, 222
Peskett, Tony, 176–78
Peterson, Leslie, 167, 179–80
Pettipiece, Parm, 45
Pham, Han, 278
Pham, Michael, 278
Phan, Tracey, 278
Phillips, Jack, 130
Phillips, Paul, ix, 138
Phillips Cable, 158
Pioneer Laundry, 63
Plumbers’ Union, 181
“the Plywood Girls,” 115
Poje, Tony, 138–39
police, 28, 34, 42–45, 52, 59, 68–69, 88–92, 93–94, 96, 100–102, 104–5, 126, 133, 153. See also BC Federation of Police Officers; Dominion Police; Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Poole, David, 241
Pooley, R.W., 88
“porkchopper,” 152
Port Simpson, 34
potlatch, 10
Potts, Lionel Beevor, 127
Powell, Israel Wood, 11
Power, Jeff, 158
Press, John, 90
Prince George Pulp and Paper, 154
Prince Rupert, 151, 153, 164–65, 175
Princess Patricia (steamer), 53
Pritchard, William (Bill), 68, 71, 72
Pritchett, Harold, 88, 99, 100, 110, 128, 131–34
Public Education Advocacy Fund, 260
Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act. See Bill 28
Public Education Labour Relations Act, 249
Public School Act, 181
Public Sector Labour Relations Act. See Bill 2
Public Sector Restraint Act. See Bill 3
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), 204
Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC), 151, 152–53, 154, 158, 180, 186–89, 209, 250
Pulp and Paperworkers of Canada (PPWC), 151
Punia, Sukwinder Kaur, 276
Queen Charlotte Islands, 112
racism, 22–23, 31–37, 46, 71–73, 106, 117, 121
Radford, Dan, 127
Ralston, Keith, 33
Rand formula, 137
Rankin, Jonnie, 113–15, 123
Ready, Vince, 155, 224, 227, 247–48, 263, 267
red bloc, 134
Regan, Gerald, 208
Regina Manifesto, 89
Regina Riot, 83–85
Registered Nurses Association of BC (RNABC), 174, 244
relief camps, 77, 79, 87
Relief Camp Worker, 77
Relief Camp Workers’ Union, 77–79, 80
Rempel, Ewald, 231, 234
Retail Clerks International Protective Association (RCIPA), 64
Retail Clerks’ Union, 183, 187
Retail Merchants’ Association, 71
Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, 162
Revelstoke, 15
Rezac, Darcy, 238
RHA Enterprises, 276–77
Rhodes, Cecil, 178
Richmond, Claude, 215, 231–34
right-to-work legislation, 230–31
Riordan, John H., 41
Riot Act, 20, 79
Roberts, Father Jim, 222, 224
Roberts, Thelma, 173
Robertson, Will, 28
Robeson, Paul, 135
Robideau, Henri, 231
Robin, Martin, 8
Robinson, Reid, 131
Roche, Glenn, 273
Roddan, Andrew, 76
Rogers, Frank, 31–35, 38–39
Rooney, Kevin, 192
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 75, 99
Roper, Tom, 248
Rosenthal, Stan, 62
“Rosie the Riveter,” 113, 114
Ross, Geraldine, 257
Ross, Jack, 156–57
Rossland, 27
Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, 53
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 60, 83–86, 94, 117, 164, 181, 182, 192, 193
Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs, 247
Royal Commission on union bugging caper, 154
Rush, Maurice, 134
Safeway, 168
Sagoo, Jasbir Kaur, 213
St. Laurent, Louis, 129
Salmon, Thomas, 20
Salmon Purse Seiners’ Union, 96
Salonen, Oscar, 92–94
Sandringham Hospital, Victoria, 181, 184, 185
Sangha, Darshan Singh, 2, 121
Sargeant, R.A., 154
Savage, Bob “Doc,” 84
Savage, Pat, 245, 246
Schaak, Nick, 86
Schreyer, Ed, 190
Scott, Gerry, 222, 228
Scouten, Sarah Jane, 155
Seafarers’ International Union (SIU), 128, 129, 130, 148, 163
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), 278–79
Second Narrows Bridge, 144–46, 147–49
SELI Canada Inc., 284
Sentes, Ray, 275
Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC), 3, 199, 200, 201, 202–3, 269
Seto, Sylvia, 262
Shaparla, Willis, 82, 85, 86
Shearer, Renate, 222, 224, 228
Shelford, Cyril, 182
Shewaga, Stan, 152, 187, 250
Shields, John, 242, 249
Shipping Federation, 69–71, 92, 95
Shipyard Workers, 131
Sidhu, Sarbjit Kaur, 276
Sidhu and Sons Nursery, 279
Sihota, Moe, 247–51
silicosis, 140
Sims, Jinny, 261–64, 265
Sinclair, James, 119
Sinclair, Jim, 258, 262, 274–78, 280, 282, 288
Singh, Gurdit, 37
six-hour day, 66
Skelly, Bob, 235
Sloan, Gordon, 122–25, 139
Smith, Al, 150
Smith, Brian, 240
Smith, Mary Ellen, 25, 62
Smith, Nick, 269
Smith, Ralph, 25, 27, 62
Smith, Roy, 163
Smith, Sidney W., 109
Smith, Sir Donald, 15
Smith, Stephanie, 243
Smith, Tom, 173
Smyth, Mike, 255
Social Credit Party (Socreds), 136–43, 167, 170, 174–75, 181–83, 188, 195, 197–98, 199, 205, 211, 212, 215, 219, 222, 223, 224, 235–39, 244–50, 253, 254, 282
socialism, 29, 60, 66, 89
Socialist Party of BC, 30, 59, 72
Socialist Party of Canada, 30
Society Promoting Environmental Cooperation (SPEC), 119
Solidarity Coalition, 222–23, 224, 227–28
“Solidarity Forever” (song), 289
Southam newspapers, 126
South Asian workers: exclusion from unions, 65–66; farm workers, 211; lumber mill workers, 2, 36, 37, 87–89
Soviet Union, 128, 135–37
Spanish Civil War, 86
Spector, Norman, 224, 227–28
Spencer’s Department Store, 64
SS Riverside, 129
Staley, Ed, 170
Stanton, John, 101
Stave Lake Quarries, 274
Stavenes, Steve, 165
Steeves, Gary, 217–18
Steinbeck, John, 77
Stevens, Homer, 119–21, 163–64, 165, 179
Stevenson, Brian, 209
Steves, Harold, 185
Steveston, 31, 32
Stewart, Alan, 149
Stewart, Bill, 131
Stewart, Sid, 149
Stewart, William, 184
Stoffman, Larry, 282
Stonebanks, Roger, 178
Stoney, Gerry, 169, 188, 196
Strachan, Bob, 148, 149, 174
Street and Electric Railway Employees, Victoria, 65
strikebreakers, 19–20, 27, 32, 38, 39, 40–43, 51–53, 67–69, 74, 90– 92, 96, 100, 101, 102, 126, 129, 133, 143, 159, 160, 184, 248
strike pay, 51, 55
strikes: Alberta Lumber Co. sawmill, Vancouver, 1920, 74; American Brotherhood of Carpenters, Victoria, 1884, 24; American Newspaper Guild, Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province, 1971, 178; bakers, meat cutters, clerks, Lower Mainland, 1975, 187; BCGEA, province-wide, 1957 and 1959, 143, 171, 181; BCGEU, province wide 1983, 220, 222, 225–26, 227; BCGEU, province wide, 1982, 215; BC Rail, 1975, 187; BCTF, province-wide, 2005, 260–61, 262, 263–64, 265; BCTF, province-wide, 2014, 267–68, 269; BCTF locals, 1988–94, 249; BCTF teachers, province-wide, 1971, 181, 182; BCTF teachers, province-wide, 1987, 239; BCTF teachers, Surrey, 1974, 188; Canada Rice Mills employees, Vancouver, 1967, 166; Canadian Seamen’s Union, Vancouver and worldwide, 1949, 129, 148; CASAW, Alcan Kitimat, 1976, 191, 193; CFU several farms, Fraser Valley, 1982–84, 212–13; CLRA, province wide, 1971, 177; CMSG towboats, province-wide, 1970, 178, 179; coal miners at Crowsnest, 1945, 125; construction unions, province-wide, 1972, 180, 182; Corbin Miners’ Association, 1935, 91; CPU and PPWC pulp workers, province-wide, 1975, 186–87, 195; Crowsnest Pass coal miners, 1919, 68; CUPE, Kamloops, Penticton, Trail, Vancouver, 1969, 174; CUPE women employees, Sandringham Hospital, Victoria, 1970–73, 181, 184, 185; fallers on Vancouver Island, 1934, 90; Federation of Telephone Workers, 1969, 175; ferry workers, province-wide, 1968, 172; ferry workers, province-wide, 1977, 198; first general strike, Vancouver, 1918, 58, 60, 61, 68, 71; Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, Rivers Inlet, 1936, 96; Fraser River Fishermen, 1893, 23–24; Fraser River Fishermen, Steveston, 1900, 31, 32, 33; general strike, Amherst, NS, 1919, 66; general strike, Prince Rupert, 1919, 66; general strike, Vancouver, 1919, 66–68, 71, 156; general strike against wage controls, 1976, 194, 195; Grand Lodge of BC Fishermen, 1901, 34; Great Vancouver Island Coal Strike, 1912–14, 50, 52, 58, 60; health care unions, province-wide, 1989, 244, 245–46; health care unions, rotating province-wide, 1992–93, 247; Heat and Frost Insulators, Vancouver, 1971, 282; HEU, 1976, 199; HEU, province-wide, 2004, 257, 258; Hudson’s Bay Company coal miners at Fort Rupert, 1850, 12; IBEW at Lenkurt Electric, Burnaby 1966, 156, 157–58, 161–62, 167, 171; Indigenous fishermen and cannery workers, Skeena and Nass Rivers, 1904, 35; industrial unionists, Victoria, 1919, 66; International Association of Machinists, Boeing, Vancouver, 1943, 114; International Longshoremen’s Association, Vancouver, 1923, 69, 70, 71, 92; Ironworkers, province-wide Dominion Bridge sites, 1959, 145, 146–47; ITU at Vancouver Province, 1946, 126, 127; ITU at Winnipeg Tribune, 1946, 126; IWA, Blubber Bay, 1938–39, 2, 98, 100–101, 102, 113; IWA, coastal forest companies,1952, 138–39; IWA, coastal forest companies, 1986, 235, 236–37; IWA in Kootenays and Okanagan, 1967–68, 159, 160; IWA loggers, Skedans Bay, 1943, 112; IWA women shipyard workers, Vancouver, 1943, 114; IWA woodworkers, province-wide, 1946, 122, 123–24; IWW CN Railway labourers, 1912, 43, 45; IWW sewer and road workers, Prince Rupert, 1911, 42; laundry workers, Nanaimo, 1946, 127; laundry workers, Vancouver, 1918, 63; Lumber Workers Industrial Union, 1919-20, 68; Mine Mill, province-wide, 1946, 125; Mine Mill at Anaconda, Britannia Beach, 1964–65, 155; miners at Cassiar Asbestos mine, 1970s, 282; miners in Kootenays, 1919, 66; miners in Princeton, 1933, 79, 90; municipal workers, Penticton, 1970, 181; MWOC, Anyox, 1933, 90; newsboys in Rossland, 1890s, 27; OCAW at British American and Imperial Oil refineries, 1965, 166–67; OCAW at oil refineries, 1969, 171; occupation of Vancouver buildings by unemployed, 1938, ii–iii, 104–5; one-day general strike, province-wide, 1987, 240, 242; PPWC, pulp mills province-wide, 1970, 180; propane truck drivers, Vancouver Island, 1975, 187; province-wide general strike averted, 1965, 167, 168; PSAC, Vancouver, 1980, viii; Relief Camp Workers Union, Vancouver, 1935, 79–82, 84–86, 90, 92; Salmon Purse Seiners’ Union, Vancouver, 1938, 96, 97; smelter workers’ union, Trail, 1918, 59–60; SORWUC at Ray-Cam centre, Vancouver, 1981, 3; SORWUC restaurant workers, Vancouver, 1978–81, 201; staff at hotel beer parlours, 1971, 178; Steelworkers, Alcan Kitimat, 1970, 180, 191; Steelworkers, Vancouver, 1946, 128; Swanson Bay sawmill, 1920, 73–74; sympathy strikes by coal miners and sawmill workers, Nanaimo, 1946, 127; telephone operators, Vancouver, 1902, 1906, 40; TWU BC Tel, province-wide, 1981, 207–8; UFAWU, Prince Rupert, 1967, 164–65; UFCW, province-wide, 1996, 251; UMWA mine workers, Crowsnest Pass, 1911, 44; United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, 1903, 38, 39; United Steelworkers at American Can, Vancouver. 1945, 125; against Vancouver Island coal companies, 12–14, 19–20; against Vancouver Island coal companies, 1861, 1865–66, 1870–71, iv; VCEU, Vancouver, 1966, 174; VDWWA longshoremen, Vancouver, 1935, 92, 93–94; Western Canada Lumber, Fraser Mills, 1931, 87, 88, 89, 100; Western Federation of Miners, Rossland, 1901, 27–28; Winnipeg General Strike, 1919, 66, 72, 156; WIUC at MacMillan logging camp, Iron River, 1947, 133
Stringer, Bernadette, 246
Stuart, R.V., 112
Succamore, Jess, 157–58, 240
Sun, Connie, 197
Sunar, Mohindar Kaur, 276
Supreme Court of Canada, 256, 264–65, 269, 270
Suzuki, Tatsuro “Buck,” 118, 119
Suzuki Etsu, 73–74
Swanson, Jean, 222
Swan-Wooster Engineering, 145
T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, 119
Taft-Hartley Act, 128–30
Tairiku Nippo (Continental Times), 73
Tappage, Mary Augusta, 46
Tax Freedom Day, 252, 253
Taylor, Carole, 264
Tchen, Thang, 278
Teck, Father François-Xavier, 89
Telecommunication Workers Union (TWU), 205, 206, 207, 208, 209
telephone companies, 40
Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), 282–84
Thatcher, Margaret, 261
thirty-five-hour workweek, 188
Thompson, Mark, 276
Thompson, Syd, 105, 154, 157, 158, 179
“three amigos,” 248–49
“three wise men,” 184
Tieleman, Bill, 252, 253
tin-canners, 79, 103
Tolmie, Simon Fraser, 88
Tonelli, Joseph, 153
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (TLC), 20, 41, 57, 65, 99, 108, 125–30, 138, 141, 142
Trade Unions Act, 161
Trail, 58–59, 109, 156, 196
Tran, Ut, 278
Tranquille institution, 217, 218
Treacher, H., 69
Truck Loggers’ Association, 237
Trudeau, Justin, 119, 287
Trudeau, Pierre, 165, 189–91
Tsimshian brass band, 34
Tuckfield, F.L., 21
Typo Times, 126
Ukrainian Labor Temple, 105
Underwood, Alan, 174
Unemployment Action Centres, 286
Unifor, 287, 289
union blockades, 231
union cards, 38, 41, 70, 184
union certification, 197, 200, 249, 259
union dues, 110, 132, 137–38, 149, 154, 158, 163, 171–72, 239
union logos, 69
union membership receipts, 69
union membership statistics, 57, 74, 125, 137, 141, 171, 176, 181, 185, 271, 285, 287
union occupation of workplace, 207–8, 217–18
Union of Bank Employees, 202
union protests, 45, 140, 169, 170, 197, 206–209, 212, 218, 219, 221, 223, 228, 233, 239–41, 253–55, 258
union rallies, 251
union solidarity, 38, 56, 59, 63, 66–67, 97, 101, 102, 114, 123–27, 143, 152, 160, 166–68, 179–81, 188, 206–209, 214–29, 236–40, 257–59, 263–64
union strike statistics, 181–82
union walkouts, 258–61
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, 98–100, 203, 235
United Brotherhood of Railway Employees ((UBRE), 38
United Electrical Workers, 135
United Farm Workers, 168, 169
United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union (UFAWU), 119, 120, 130, 163, 164, 165, 175, 216, 243, 250
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), 203, 251, 252, 278–79, 282, 287
United Mine Workers, 127, 142
United Mine Workers (UMW), 68
United Mine Workers Journal, 51
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 44, 50, 55, 98
United Paper Makers and Paper Workers Union, 151, 154
United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU), 154
United Steelworkers of America, 125, 128–30, 131, 132–35, 152, 156, 172, 177, 180–81, 191, 203, 238, 271–74, 282–84, 287
United Way, 286
Uphill, Tom, 136, 137
Vancouver, ii–iii, 44, 76, 80–81, 94, 104, 105, 129, 144, 151, 180, 198, 201, 208
Vancouver and District Labour Council (VDLC), 156–57, 165–67
Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers’ Association (VDWWA), 71, 92–95
Vancouver Civic Employees’ Union (VCEU), 130, 173, 174
Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company, 17, 18, 19–20, 25
Vancouver Daily World, 59
Vancouver Labour Council, 110, 128–30
Vancouver Plywood, vii
Vancouver Province, 38, 67, 126, 127, 178, 186, 195, 199, 208, 239–41, 255, 280, 286
Vancouver Resources Board, 197
Vancouver Sun, 67, 92, 114, 126–28, 132, 136, 143, 147, 154, 157, 167, 168–69, 178–79, 195, 198, 228, 234, 240, 253, 257–58, 286
Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (VTLC), 19, 26, 43, 49, 61–64, 68, 71, 74, 87, 110
Vander Zalm, Bill, 197, 235–41, 244, 245, 248–49, 261
Verde, Jose, 164
Victoria, 7
Victoria Times, 178
The Voice of the Fishermen, 96
von Dehn, Cecilia, 255
Vowell, A.W., 24
wage controls, 189, 190–91, 193–95, 214
wage spiral, 186
Wagner Act, 99–100, 106
Wainwright, Ray, 86
Walker, Cathy, 282
Walker, R.G., 38
Walsh, Red, 83, 84
“the War in the Woods,” 250–51
War Measures Act, 107
Wartime Prices and Trade Board, 125
Webster, Jack, 132, 154, 215
Webster, Peter, 48
Weiler, Joe, 238
Weiler, Paul, 182, 185, 194
Weiman, Dan, 259
Wellington, 13, 17
West, Alice, 114, 204
Western Canada Lumber (WCL), 87–88, 123
Western Clarion, 72
Western Coal Operators’ Association, 68
Western Crown Manufacturing Company, 124
Western Federation of Miners, 27, 38, 156
Western Fuel Mine, 52
Western Labor Conference, 66
Western Miner, 125
The Western Wage Earner. See The British Columbia Federationist
“Westray law,” 272
Weyerhaeuser, 272
whipsawing, 177
White, Bill, 108, 139
White, Kit, 210
white bloc, 131–33, 134
white workers, 33, 36, 46; limestone workers, 100–101
Whitmore, Fernie, 146–47
Wicks, Lyle, 140
Wiebe, Andy, 246
wildlife conservation, 47
Williams, Allan, 188, 197–99
Williams, Bob, 72
Williams, Parker, 30
Williams Lake Tribune, 258
Williamson, Andrew, 102
Wilson, William B., 56
Winch, Ernest, 68–69, 71, 90
Winch, Harold, 68, 71, 90, 104, 105
Wing, Lila, 207
Winnipeg Tribune, 126
The “Wobblies.” See Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
women: activists, 216, 222, 227; anti-union “Marching Mothers,” 165; co-operatives, 62; CUPE executive, 173; first female MLA, cabinet minister and Speaker, 62; on husbands’ picket lines, 159, 192; Ladies’ Auxiliaries, 51, 94, 122, 123; Mothers’ Council, 79; return to domestic life after the war, 115; rights, 25; sit-down protest, 140; social welfare, 62; suffrage, 20, 30, 51, 62; on union marches, 90, 91, 95
Women Against the Budget, 216, 222
Women in Trades, 203
women workers, 3; acknowledged in name change of WCB, 185; aircraft companies, 114; bank employees, 199, 200–202; building trades, 203; cannery workers, 10, 22, 23, 35–36, 96; domestics, 63; farm workers, 213; forest industry, 115; hospital employees, 254–55; largest mass layoff since WW II, 255; laundry workers, 63, 127; newspaper printers, 286; paid maternity leave, 204; pay equity, 204, 247; on picket lines, 175; retail clerks, 64; shipyard workers, 113, 114; shoreworkers, 204; telephone operators, 40, 67, 156; union heads, 218, 243, 261, 287; union membership, 61–62, 197, 244; union of Indigenous women, 120; university and college employees, 204; waitresses, 63; wartime workforce, 107; workforce statistics, 115–16
Wong Hau-hon, 16
Wood, Stuart, 85
Woodfibre, 151
Woodsworth, J.S., 89, 90
Woodsworth, Lucy, 90
Woodward’s Department Store, 64
Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada (WIUC), 132–33, 134, 149
Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB), 185, 188, 196, 197, 209–12, 253
Workers’ Unity League (WUL), 76–77, 79, 87–88, 91–99
Workingmen’s Party, 21
Workmen’s Compensation Act (1917), 29, 30, 60, 64, 110
Workmen’s Compensation Board (WCB), 64, 139–40, 145
workplace deaths, 272–78
workplace diseases, 279–82
workplace safety, 271–84
WorkSafeBC, 272–82
World Peace Congress, 137
World War I (The Great War), 57, 61, 63, 65, 93, 95
World War II, 106–21
Yale, 43
Yamazaki, Yasushi, 33–35
Yates, William, 65
Young Worker Summit, 287
Yussuff, Hassan, 268
Zander, Bill, 253
Zerr, Dodie, 199
Zucco, Bea, 140
Zucco, Jack, 140, 141
Zwozdesky, Don, 273