Ruth Bullock discusses factionalization within leftist parties and labour organizations, particularly as such factionalization affected attitudes towards the war. She also discusses how women were politicized during the war, and her experiences within women’s auxiliaries.
Betty Griffin discusses her experiences working in the Boeing factory during World War II, including details about hours and wages, working with men, and her feelings towards the war effort. She also discusses her involvement with leftist politics, union organizing, and social life within the union.
Betty Griffin discusses daily life as a Boeing employee, including an account of her first day at work. She also discusses her experiences as union shop steward and social committee chairman, including her experiences with getting fired (and subsequently re-hired) due to her involvement with the union. Finally, she discusses her experiences with going to university after having experienced working life, the Mayday Parade, and demonstrations on the Powell St. grounds (now Oppenheimer Park).
Marjorie Storm talks about her first job in Vancouver at Fraser Mills; sexual harassment in the workplace; working at Boeing main Sea Island plant as a riveter and fitter; her placement by National Selective Service at Pacific Veneer (now Canadian Forest Products) in 1946; how the I.W.A. defended the right of married women to work at her mill; attitudes of men on the job towards working women; wage differential between sexes and segregated seniority lists; increase in representation of women in the union; the winning fight for equal pay for equal work in 1966.
Marjorie Storm talks about actions by women for equal access to jobs; use of arbitration; the employers’ negative response to equal pay; pressure by women forestry workers for changes to the Human Rights Code and how, working through the union, changes were subsequently passed by the provincial NDP government. She also talks about how she got involved in the union in the 1950’s representing the 350 women working in the mill; locking down the plant to stop a foreman from taking workers’ jobs; negotiating on behalf of all workers at her plant.
Marjorie Storm explains the importance of passing her resolution through the I.W.A. “Ladies” Auxiliary before taking it to conference; women’s support of the union and job actions; feminism and the women’s movement in the 1970’s; becoming politically active and eventually Vice-President of the NDP; the social safety net and the trade union movement.
Item is a copy print of a photograph of a group of people in a cleared area with a small tent in the background in Prince Rupert on June 1, 1906. The people in the photograph are identified as: Mrs. J.L. Williams, Jack or Jock Williams, Mrs. Porter, Miss Mai Johnston, Mrs. R.L. McIntosh, J.H. Pillsbury, Mr. P ? (Engineer), Captain J ?, Mrs. S.G. Harris, and Cannon Rushbrook.
Item is a photograph of a group of men on the dock in Prince Rupert in January 1907.
Item is a copy print of a photograph of the Post Office in Prince Rupert in 1908.
Item is a copy print of a photograph of a stone totem pole at Metakatla taken between 1906 and 1908.
Item is a copy print of a photograph of tents and newly cleared land in Prince Rupert taken between 1906 and 1908.
Item is a copy print of a photograph of a person poling a dugout canoe between 1906 and 1908.
Item is a photograph of a tree stump apparently eaten through by beavers.
Item is a photograph of a building with trees in front covered with snow.
Item is a photograph of the post office in Prince Rupert taken between 1906 and 1908.
Photograph depicts rows of grave markers in foreground, fence and buildings in background. Handwritten annotation on verso “Indian cemetery, Reserve #1 South Fort George".
Unidentified man can be seen walking on railroad tracks on far right. Utility poles, field, small building and background hills are visible in image.
Photograph depicts winter landscape with track and logs in foreground. Bridge, trees and cleared land in background.
Consists of 2 overlapping legal-size copies depicting the plans for Lot 7392 in Port Essington.
Row of buildings with path and poles. Rough cleared land in foreground, men visible in far left background.
Photograph depicts two connected buildings; the building on the left is possibly the theatre, other building with sign that reads: "The Nechaco (sic?) General Stores." Boardwalk with people and unpaved street in foreground.
Railroad track, utility poles, field, small building and background hills are visible in image.
Water and dock in foreground, trees and cliffs in background. Handwritten annotation on verso “’Boat Hammond at South Fort Geroge”.
Photograph depicts two men standing in front of very small wood building with tarp-covered roof. Chair and paper documents can be seen in front of building, trees and rough cleared land in background. Handwritten annotation on verso: “The first newspaper office, South Fort George 1910."
Photograph depicts landscape with cleared land in foreground, river in middle, building and trees in background. Handwritten annotation on verso: "Central Fort George 1911".