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Leonard, Blackie & Nick Buszowski - Interview

Item number (ISN):

186928

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-04-06

Item number (ISN):

186928

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN SEAMEN'S UNION HISTORY PROJECT

Accession:

1991-0356

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1981-04-06

Production company:

Jim Green (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview by Jim Green of Blackie Leonard, former member of the Canadian Seamen's Union (CSU) and Nick Buszowski, former member of the CSU National Executive. Leonard and Buszowski speak at length of the 1946 CSU strike against the Great Lake ships. Turning to the causes of discontent among the seamen, the interviewees discuss the low wages, the 18 to 20 hour work day and the poor living conditions aboard ship. They also talk about the strikebreakers hired by Canadian Steamship Lines, various violent incidents during the strike, the police who protected the strikebreakers and the solidarity of the CSU and other unions. Leonard also talks about his seafaring career beginning in 1943 at the age of 16 on the Hudson Bay Co. boats plying the rivers in the Northwest Territories, later on the supply boats for Canada Packers out of Vancouver, and the Park ships during the latter stages of World War Two. Other topics include the 1948 CSU strike on the Great Lakes and memories of prominent CSU members Gerry Tellier, Pat Sullivan and others.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Another unidentified person is present during this interview.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

192700

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1991-0356/048
1991-0356/050

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

192701

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1991-0356/049

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

319787

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9901-0024

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:40

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

319789

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9901-0025

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:42

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

319790

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9901-0028

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

51:37

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

583300

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

186928-1991-0356-048-S1.wav
186928-1991-0356-048-S2.wav
186928-1991-0356-049-S1.wav
186928-1991-0356-049-S2.wav
186928-1991-0356-050-S1.wav
186928-1991-0356-050-S2.wav

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

192:28

Made from:

1991-0356/048
1991-0356/049
1991-0356/050

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

583301

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

186928-1991-0356-048-S1.mp3
186928-1991-0356-048-S2.mp3
186928-1991-0356-049-S1.mp3
186928-1991-0356-049-S2.mp3
186928-1991-0356-050-S1.mp3
186928-1991-0356-050-S2.mp3

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

192:28

Made from:

1991-0356/048
1991-0356/049
1991-0356/050

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004221

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9901-0024

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1978-0020/072
1991-0356/048
1991-0356/049
1991-0356/050

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1004222

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9901-0025
A4 9901-0028

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1991-0356/048
1991-0356/049
1991-0356/050

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9901-0024
A1 9901-0025
A1 9901-0028

Reproduction access:

with written permission of Jim Green

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