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UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK: SCHOOL OF ADMINISTRATION

1977-0122

Sound

4 of 4

1976-07-12

Gary N. Chaison (Interiewer]

Mr. Crilley described the working conditions and unionization in the longshoring industry in Saint John. The interviewee mentioned his experiences as an officer of a local of the Internatinal Longshoremans' Association. There was a discusison of the events surrounding Hal Banks' activities and the Canadian Seamens' Union. The interview then focused on Mr. Crilley's employment with the CNR and his activities in the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers. There is also a detailed discussion of union democracy and communist domination in the labour movement. In the remainder of the interview Mr. Crilley described several parties he had known from labour, management and the goverment. Included among these personalities are: Angus MacLeod, James Whitehone, Nick Tracy, Horace Pettigrove, A.E. Skaling, Ken Weber, K.C. Irving, J.S. Woodsworth, J.K. Bell, Paul LePage and Valerie Bourgeois. The time period covered in this interview is from 1930 to 1976.

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MSS 18293

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University of New Brunswick

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