Collection search - Joseph Mackenzie fonds [textual record (chiefly microform), graphic material]

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Joseph Mackenzie fonds [textual record (chiefly microform), graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1915-1969.

Reference:

R4847-0-7-E, MG31-B45

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101815

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Joseph Mackenzie fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1915-1969.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

1.4 m of textual records.
6 microfilm reels negative and positive.
9 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of minutes and correspondence of the United Rubber Workers (URW); URW District 6 correspondence, monthly reports, committee, local union and subject files; Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) correspondence from Mackenzie's tenure as president; personal papers; personal files kept by Mackenzie which document his activities as one of the three appointed trustees with the Board of Maritime Trustees (microfilm). The fonds also contains photographs relating to the URW during the 1940s, including photographs of Joseph Mackenzie, Charles Lanning, William England, International Executive Board and URW staff.

The fonds also contains records relating to Mackenzie's activities as a member of the Board of Maritime Trustees (1963 to 1967), which supervised the operations of the Seafarers International Union (SIU) following the Norris Commission of Inquiry into the disruption of shipping in 1962. These records are located on microfilm reels M-7777 to M-7782.

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Mackenzie, Joseph, 1910-

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Mackenzie, Joseph, 1910- : Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Joseph MacKenzie, labour leader, immigrated to Canada with his parents. Mackenzie entered the printing trade in Toronto as an apprentice compositor, but with the beginning of the Depression he could not find work in that trade. MacKenzie began working as a shipper's helper in the Seiberling Rubber Company in Toronto in 1933 and assisted in the organization of a local union which was chartered in 1937 as Local 118 of the United Rubber Workers (URW). He was subsequently dismissed by the company; in 1938, Mackenzie began to work full-time for the URW in Canada.

In 1941, Mackenzie became the first director of District 6. He served as a member of the International Executive Board from 1943 to 1948. In November 1949, Mackenzie was dismissed from the URW staff after the re-election of International President L.S. Buckmaster, due to opposition to earlier Buckmaster policies. At the time of his dismissal in 1949, Mackenzie was also the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), an office he held from 1947 to 1951. In 1950, he became national director of the National Union of Unemployed Workers, organized by the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL).

Mackenzie also became the chair of the CCL General Organizing Committee and in 1953 was appointed the CCL Director of Organization. He continued as Director of Organization with the creation of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in 1956. During two decades with the CLC, Mackenzie played an important role in assisting workers in the organization of trade unions. In his later years, Mackenzie directed CLC efforts to organize white-collar workers through the Association of Clerical and Technical Employees (ACTE). Mackenzie retired from the CLC in September 1975.

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Textual record (Electronic) This finding aid describes volumes 1 to 7 and the microfilms M-7777 to M-7782 at the file level. MSS1671 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003427.pdf

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General note:

Textual material received in 1986 from Joseph MacKenzie of Westport, Ontario.

Related material:

For related materials, see the United Rubber Workers (URW) fonds (R5581 / MG28-I325, Mikan catalogue no. 105510).
Subject heading:

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Labour movement - Canada, 1938-1968 L.S. Buckmaster, 1938-1949

Trade-unions - Canada, 1938-1968 S.H. Dalrymaple, 1938-1949

Labour organizations - Canada, 1938-1968 N.H. Eagle, 1938-1949

United Rubber Workers - Business records, 1938-1949 H.R. Lloyd, 1938-1949

Labour movement - Canada - Political activity, 1938-1949 Ontario Federation of Labour, 1944-1949

Congress of Industrial Organizations - Canada - Political activity, 1938-1949 United Electrical workers, 1944-1949

Collective bargaining - Rubber industries, 1938-1949 Canadian Congress of Labour, 1915-1968

Rubber industry - Canada, 1936-1949 Canada. Norris Commission into the Disruption of Shipping of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, 1963-1968

United Rubber Workers, District 6 - Reports, 1936-1949 Seafarers International Union, 1963-1968

Trade-unions - Ontario, 1944-1949 Canadian Brotherhood of Railway

Elections - Ontario, 1948 Transport and General Workers, 1963-1968

Board of Maritime Trustees, 1963-1968

National Association Of Marine Engineers

Labour - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1986-166 NPC

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MG31-B45
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http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000001385.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1671] 128

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Microfilm reel [MG31 B 45] M-7777--M-7782

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [MACKENZIE, JOSEPH 1986-166] 4045

[Consultation 90 Open]

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