Mine Mill: The History of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Canada Since 1895
Name/Title
Mine Mill: The History of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Canada Since 1895Entry/Object ID
2022.154.01Tags
Mining History, Mining Industry, Sudbury, Ontario, District of Sudbury, The Sudbury Basin, Union, International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, Timmins, Ontario, Cobalt, Ontario, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Falconbridge Nickel Mines, International Nickel Company of Canada (INCO)Scope and Content
Book describing the history of the development of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter WorkersContext
The book discusses the history of the creation and development of the union as well as the reach of the union. It is broken down into chapters, they are as follows: 1. The Western Federation of Miners: Origins in the U. S.: - Early Beginnings - The Coeur d'Alenes War: 1892 - The Western Federation of Miners: 1893 - Cripple Creek: 1894 - The Eight-Hour day: 1896 - The Western Labour Union: 1898 - Big Bill Haywood - The Colorado Strikes (1903-1905): The Military and the Victor Record, The Contract Bonus System, Adolphus Stewart Embree: A Biography - The WFM and the IWW - The Steunenberg Murder Case - The Copper Strike and Joe Hill - WFM Becomes IUMMSW: 1916 - Mine Mill Revives: 1933 - The CIO: 1936 - World War Two - The Raids 2. Organization in Western Canada: - The WFM Comes to Canada: 1895 - The Eight-Hour Day: 1899 - The Rossland Strike (1901): Mackenzie King and Labour, The Rossland Strike and Taff Vale, Rossland Union Hall - Coal Miners at the WFM - Greenwood Miners' Strike: 1909-1910 - Trail-Rossland Activity: 1916-1917 - The One Big Union - The Company Union - Art Evans and Mine Mill: 1938 - Organization in the 1940s - The 1946 Strikes - The Steel Raids: 1950 - Mine Mill Organizers Persist: Barney McGuire, Martin Walsh, Mike Ellis, Andy Cavil, Dave McGhee, Neil MacLeod, Doug Gold, Clem Thompson, "Seahorse" Johnson, Jack Kelly, Al King and Local 480, Leo Nimsick MLA, Ken Smith President - Alberta Organization 3. Organization in Northeastern Canada: - Cobalt WFM Local 146: 1906 - The Union Grows - Porcupine Miners' Strike: 1912 - Further Growth: "Big Jim" McGuire - The One Big Union - Organization Falters - Timmins Organizers Revives (1936): The Bob Miner Story - From Cobalt to Noranda - Mine Mill in Quebec: Jean Poirier Recalls 4. Kirkland Lake: - Kirkland Lake Local 240: 1936 - The Forties - The Strike - Enter Hepburn's Hussars - The Horay Dynamic Plant - Strike Organization: Bob Miner on Kirkland Lake - Support Undiminished - New Assessment of Strike - Arbitration? - Strike Called Off - Discrimination and Speed-Up - Union Growth and PC 1003 5. Sudbury Local 598: - Early History: Garson WFM Local 182: 1913, Sudbury District WFM Local 183: 1913, Coniston District WFM Local 116: 1919 - The Thirties: Sudbury Local 239: 1936, Falconbridge Local 361: 1937 - The Forties: Sudbury Local 598: 1942, Coming out into the Open: 1943, Certification:1944 - Local 598's Community Work: Union Halls, Children's Camp on Richard Lake, Cultural Program, Support of the Union Movement, Local 902, Ladies' Auxiliary - Background to the Raids: Hot War Ends- Cold War Starts, The King Government, The Boring From Within Tactic, The CCF Joins the Conspiracy, The CCF Expels Mine Mill: Port Colborne Raid 1949 - Steel Raids: Trail 1950 - Inco Operations Targeted: Port Colborne 1950 - The Sudbury Raid 1950 - The Labour Board and Canadian Autonomy: 1955 - Elliot Lake Raided: 1956 - The 1958 Inco Strike: Wildcat Provocations, The Strike is Called, Back-to-Work Scheme Fails - Boring from Within Local 598: Enter Professor Boudreu and Bouvier, Boring from Within Succeeds in Local 598: March 1959 -Destabilizing Program Begins: The Report of Allistair Stewart - Sabotaging Cultural Programs - Pressure on Local 598 Increased - Defending Mine Mill: Local 598 election 1959 - Per Capita Tax Withheld - Local 598 Election: 1961 - The Siege of the Union Hall - The Sudbury Arena Meeting - Open Steel Raid Starts (1961): Certification Vote Ordered, Falconbridge Forgeries, Steel's Majority Fifteen Votes, Evaluation of the Conflict, Defeat of Gillis as Tory Candidate - A New Mine Mill Leadership: Campaign to Regain Inco: 1965, Steel wins again - Merger Proposals: 1967, Falconbridge's Local 598Collection
Sudbury History, Mining History, International Nickel Company of Canada, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Collection, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter WorkersCataloged By
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