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United Textile Workers of America Local 159 fonds
Fonds
This fonds contains minute books of meetings from 1946-1972, three filed employee grievances ( Janette Roy, Thelma Burgess, and Helen Haskem), conciliation board submissions and papers, arbitration board submissions and papers, reference material including newspaper clippings and miscellaneous reference material. The miscellaneous reference file contains receipts, an application for membership with the United Textile Workers of America, an efficiency report for 1969, and a record of proceedings and decision of board referees. As well this fonds includes collective agreements from 1948-1973, and miscellaneous correspondence. MS-9-19
United Textile Workers of America Local 152 fonds
Fonds
The fonds includes correspondence, contract documents, district council documents, annual conference proceedings/documents, information about the conference on trade union rights in 1951-1952, press releases issued by the United Textile Workers of America, and miscellaneous reference material including, a sheet outlining the, "commonplace precaution against war" with a diagram about the potential damages of an atom bomb blast. The reference material contains blank due deduction slips for the United Textile Workers of America Local 152, newsletters issued by the Canadian Textile Council, a pamphlet issued by the Trade Union Research Bureau titled, "Wages and the Cost of Living", and amendments submitted by the "Local 100 United Textile Workers of America for negotiations with the Montreal Cottons Limited." Files are listed alphabetically by title. MS-9-2
Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds
Fonds · 1978 - 1994
Fonds contains materials related to the early picnics organized by the committee. Materials include invitations, announcements and mailing lists, guest books, financial records, and photographs of people at various picnics. MS-10-10
Marine Workers Federation fonds
Fonds
This fonds includes a variety of photographic material relating to the Marine Workers Federation. As well this fonds contains a copy of the newspaper "The Nova Scotia Worker" Issued by the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour. MS-9-17
Letters written by Fred Thompson to John Bell
File · 1976
File comprises four letters sent from Fred Thompson to John Bell between July and October 1976. The letters recount Thompson's years in Halifax as a labourer and labour activist and reveal an ongoing discussion between Bell and Thompson regarding labour issues and labour history. File also contains one photograph of Fred Thompson, ca. 1925-1955. MS-10-2, SF Box 1, Folders 1-4; PB Box 1, Folder 96
Labour Photograph Collection
Collection
The Labour Photograph Collection contains photographs of labour events from across Nova Scotia. PC-9
Ian McKay fonds
Fonds · 1975 - 1980
Fonds contains research material and manuscripts created by historian Ian McKay when he resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Materials include a student essay on strikes in the Maritimes (1901-1914), a manuscript of McKay's undergraduate honours thesis, "The Working Class of Metropolitan Halifax," and 55 audio cassettes and accompanying notes from interviews with workers in the Springhill and Joggins coal mines. MS-9-16
Essay on the Nova Scotia Government Employees Association
Item
File contains an essay titled, "Nova Scotia Government Employees Association" written by Chris Bailey for submission to Gregory Kealey. The essay is about the history of the Nova Scotia Government Employees Association. MS-9-40, SF Box 52, Folder 1