In the summer of 1954, racist signs on the women’s washrooms at the Namu fish cannery divided the facilities between “Whites” and “Natives”. They had been there for years, but despite demands from both the United Fishermen and Allied Workers …
(Photo: Four members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division, posed standing: Frank Collins, Joe(?) Hudson, L.M. Alexander, and Sam Lewis, ca. 1943. Frank Collins became President of the Vancouver Division of the Union, as well …
(Photo: Fitzclarence St. John, image and information from Waterfront News, 1971) Remembering Fitzclarence St. John, founding member of the “Bows and Arrows” Lumber Handlers local of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Fitz, more commonly known and referred to …