International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Canada) fonds. 1897-1967.

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International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Canada) fonds. 1897-1967.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606462152

The fonds consists of records from the International Office (Denver), national office (Toronto), B.C. District Union files, Western District Union Files, and records of Canadian locals, the Western Federation of Miners, District No. 6 and its locals, the Sandon Miners Union, and the Metal Miners Union of the One Big Union (1920-1933). Records of individual locals vary from minute books and financial records, reports, and correspondence to extensive subject files and financial reports for larger locals. The fonds also includes a substantial photograph collection documenting union activities (1944 to 1962), tape recordings, films, charters, badges, official seals and recordings of Paul Robeson Peace Arch concerts (1950s).

75 m of textual records and other material.

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781892

University of British Columbia Library

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International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Canada)

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The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers dates to 1893 when a small group of miners created the Western Federation of Miners in Idaho. The Rossland Miners' Union (1895) became Canada's first recorded local in 1895. In 1916 the WFM changed its name to the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and constitutional amendments in 1955 firmly established the Canadian section of the union. The Union expended much energy in jurisdictional disputes and contended with raid...

Western Federation of Miners. District 6.

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Sandon Miners Union.

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Metal Miners Union.

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One Big Union

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In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Congress in Calgary and resolved to conduct a referendum among Canadian members to determine if they would be willing to join a revolutionary industrial union to be called the One Big Union. By the end of 1919, a membership of 41,150 was reported in the 101 local units of the OBU which included large parts of the mine, transportation and logging labour force in western Canada. Although by 1923 the union was redu...