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CANADIAN SEAMEN'S UNION HISTORY PROJECT

1991-0356

Enregistrement sonore

1 of 1

1980-02-20

Jim Green (Interviewer)

Interview by Jim Green of Jimmy O'Donnell, a former seaman and president of the Vancouver local of the International Longshoremen's Association. O'Donnell talks about his early experiences at sea beginning in 1929 at age 19 when he joined the Federated Seamen's Union. O'Donnell also discusses the history of the early unions on the West Coast in the 1930s including the British Columbia Seamen's Union, the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, the Seafarers Industrial Union, the Inland Boatmen's Union (a forerunner of the Canadian Seamen's Union) and others. Other topics include the poor working and living conditions aboard the ships and the protracted waterfront strikes in 1935.

English

Libre

A1 9811-0031

with written permission of Jim Green