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Murray, Charlie - Interview

Item number (ISN):

186940

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-06-03

Item number (ISN):

186940

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:

2 of 2

Production date:

1981-06-03

Production company:

Jim Green (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview by Jim Green of Charlie Murray, veteran seaman and fisherman, former organizer for the Canadian Fishermen's Union and port agent at Halifax for the Canadian Seamen's Union (CSU). Murray begins with his memories of former CSU president Pat Sullivan and CSU National Secretary-Treasurer Jack Chapman who hired Murray as port agent for the CSU in 1938 to organize the deep-sea seamen with a view to expanding the CSU across Canada. Murray also discusses the poor working conditions and subsistence wages on the Lady boats owned by the Canadian government. He outlines the agreement between the federal government and the West Indies to man the Lady boats with half Canadian and half West Indian seamen. Murray talks about his long hours meeting with the Altantic seamen and signing them up with the CSU. Other topics include: the problems of the Atlantic fishermen and fish handlers; his efforts to organize the fishing industry for the Canadian Fishermen's Union; the tactics used by fish company owners to thwart attempts to organize the fishermen and fish handlers; and the strike against the Lockeport Company, a fish processing company in Nova Scotia.

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

192726

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1991-0356/065
1991-0356/066

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

322849

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9902-0084

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

73:43

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

583324

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

186940-1991-0356-065-S1.wav
186940-1991-0356-065-S2.wav
186940-1991-0356-066-S1.wav
186940-1991-0356-066-S2.wav

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

73:16

Made from:

1991-0356/065
1991-0356/066

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

583325

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

186940-1991-0356-065-S1.mp3
186940-1991-0356-065-S2.mp3
186940-1991-0356-066-S1.mp3
186940-1991-0356-066-S2.mp3

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

73:16

Made from:

1991-0356/065
1991-0356/066

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004319

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9902-0084

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0098/04
1998-0098/05
1998-0098/06
1998-0098/07
1998-0098/08
1998-0098/09
1998-0098/10
1991-0356/065
1991-0356/066

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9902-0084

Reproduction access:

with written permission of Jim Green

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