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Record information – Brief McVey, Elmer - Interview
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1988-05-15Item number (ISN):137995Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:STOW, RickAccession:1989-0417Media:SoundPart:1 of 1Production date:1988-05-15Production company:Rick Stow (Interviewer)Description:Interview with Elmer McVey. Topics treated: lack of labour awareness in school cirriculum, history of labour in Sudbury basin, cushy situation for today's workers, struggles as presented on T.V., craft and railway union activities in Sudbury since 1920s, rise of the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), early Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) leaders, Bob Carlin, CCF policies and union affiliations, no-strike pledge, devastation of CCF in 1958, role of Stanley Knowles, CCL and Trades and Labour Congress merger, Marshall plan as a watershed, expulsion of Carlin, steel victories over Mine Mill, Taft-Hartley, Canadian autonomy vs. international unions, chronology of steel raids, Clairie Gillis faction, impact of 1958 strike, steelworkers and NDP, Kirkland Lake strike, union spread, Communist Party-Liberal alliance, Liberals in Labour movement, Labour Progressive Party, impression of William Lyon MacKenzie King and co-opting of CCF agenda, forecast for 1988 federal election.Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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