Garth Brown fonds. 1966-1987.

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Garth Brown fonds. 1966-1987.

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The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, subject files and printed materials related to the NDP Executive Committee, the Labour Policy Committee, Vancouver civic politics, labour education, Canadian Labour Congress, International Woodworkers of America and Brown's work at the Eburne Sawmill.

4 m of textual records.

University of British Columbia Library

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University of British Columbia Library

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New Democratic Party. Executive Committee.

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International Woodworkers of America. Western Canadian Regional Council No 1

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The International Woodworkers of America was formed in Portland in 1937. In British Columbia the predecessor of the IWA was the Lumber Worker's Industrial Union. In 1936 the LWIU affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and was to be grouped under the AFL's Carpenter's organization. West Coast discontent with the AFL resulted in a meeting of representatives of the newly organized union locals in the fall of 1936 to form the Federation of Woodworkers which became the IWA in the summer of ...

International Woodworkers of America

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CIO-affiliated union founded in 1937 by woodworkers in the United States and Canada. In April, 1987, the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) split to form the IWA-U.S. and IWA-Canada unions. The IWA-U.S. is headquartered in Gladstone, Or. From the description of Records, 1936-1987. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19796382 ...

Brown, Donald Garth, 1942-1987.

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Garth Brown a founding member of the NDP, ran as a candidate for Point Grey in 1966 and was active in TEAM campaigns from 1968 to 1972. He chaired the NDP Labour Policy Committee (1973-1979) and was a campaign chairman in 1981-1982 for Vancouver/Little Mountain. Brown worked at the Eburne Sawmill as Plant Chairman and headed the Plant Committee through most of the 1970s, and was an active committee member in the 1980s. As Regional Co-ordinator of the LESC/CLC (1979-1982), Brown was at the centre...

New Democratic Party. Labour Policy Committee.

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Canadian Labour Congress

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