Collection search - International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers collection [textual record (chiefly microform)]

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International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers collection [textual record (chiefly microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

1903, 1954-1965.

Reference:

R3720-0-0-E, MG28-I174

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100064

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International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers collection
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Collection includes:

10 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1903, 1954-1965.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

3 microfilm reels positive.
0.8 cm of textual records (36 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of administrative papers, correspondence, and publications which document the activities and reflect the changes within the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (IBPSPMW) and related pulp and paper unions. Microfilmed material is located on reels M-6505 to M-6507.

Microfilmed material contains material on reform movements' history (1962, 1965); Rank and File Movement Democratic Action (RFMDA): correspondence (1959-1964); RFMDA: history (1958-1964); RFMDA: meetings and minutes (1961-1962): RFMDA: administration and miscellaneous (1961-1962); IBPS and PMW (1960-1962); United Papermakers and Paperworkers (1959-1963); Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers, clippings and press releases (1964-1965); Pulp and Paper Unions, minutes and reports (1954-1963).

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International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers

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Associated name: Canadian Paperworkers Union

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International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers : In 1906, pulp and sulphite workers seceded from the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers and Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (IBPSPMW) (est. 1893). They founded their own union, the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. Following the forced resignation in 1961 of George Brooks, the union's reform-minded Director of Research and Education, reform elements held a meeting in Denver, Colorado. Attended by Canadian and American members, this meeting formally established the Rank and File Movement for Democratic Action (RFMDA).

The RFMDA soon created its own administrative structure, and was supported by a per capita tax from participating local unions. In the aftermath of the defeat of the reform programme at the 1962 International convention, several of the Western Canadian local unions in the RFMDA seceded to form the Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada. The RFMDA effectively disbanded in 1964, when many local unions withdrew to form the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers.

In 1972, the IBPSPMW merged with the United Papermakers and Paperworkers to form the United Paperworkers International Union. In 1974, the Canadian members of this new union withdrew and established the Canadian Paperworkers Union (CPU). In 1992, the CPU merged with two other unions to establish the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP). In 2013, the CEP merged with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) to establish Unifor.

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Textual record (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive file list of microfilm reels M-6505 to M-6507. MSS1448 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003591.pdf

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General note:

The microfilm was received from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library, Madison, Wisconsin, in 1983.

Location of originals note:

The originals are in the possession of the Canadian Labour Congress and State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Related material:

For related materials, see Canadian Paperworkers Union (CPU) fonds (R9077 / MG28-I484), the successor to the IMPSPMW.
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Trade-unions - Canada - Records and correspondence, 1903, 1954, 1958-1965 Union Democracy in Action, 1962, 1965

Trade-unions - United States - Records and correspondence, 1903, 1954, 1958-1965 United Papermakers and Paperworkers, 1959-1963

Trade-unions - Organizing, 1903 Spring Conference of the Western Canadian Council of Pulp and Paper Mill Unions (Vancouver, B.C.), 1954, 1959-1963

Trade-unions - Paper industry workers, 1903, 1954, 1958-1965

Labour - unions and organizations - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I174
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http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000138.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 1448] 115

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Microfilm reel [MG28 I 174] M-6505--M-6507

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

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