Collection search - Slocan Valley miners' strike fonds [textual record]

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Slocan Valley miners' strike fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

n.d., 1891, 1987-1900.

Reference:

R16584-0-1-E

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5719041

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Slocan Valley miners' strike fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

n.d., 1891, 1987-1900.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of records that document a strike by the Sandon Miners Union (Western Federation of Miners) in Slocan, British Columbia. The records concern the union hospital, union organising, a law around eight-hour workdays, management using non-union workers, mining production, numbers of employees, company finances, and other matters.

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Slocan Valley miners' strike

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Slocan Valley miners' strike : In 1899, after the government of British Columbia enacted an eight-hour workday for miners, mine operators and mining unions could not agree on a new wage scale. The strike lasted for six months. Another issue in the dispute was the Alien Labour Act: during the strike, some of the owners brought in non-unionized workers from the United States to work in the mines, which the union claimed was contrary to the act. The strike was settled in February 1900.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list of volumes 1 and 2 MSS2714 (90: Open)

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Labour - unions and organizations - archival fonds

Source:

Private

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2022-00013-7
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R16584] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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