AUDIO
Hachiro & Joe Miyazawa Interview: Japanese Camp & Mill Workers Union
This recording contains a 1964 interview with Hachiro Miyazawa and his son Joe Miyazawa about the Camp and Mill Workers Union which Hachiro helped to organize in the 1920s to represent Japanese lumber mill workers in British Columbia. This interview is part of our Oral History Collection.
They discuss the formation of the union, its affiliation with the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council, working conditions for Japanese immigrants, political attitudes in the community, and the decline of the union over time. Joe Miyazawa was also a union activist and organizer with the International Woodworkers of America (IWA).