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.
The interview was conducted in the 1960s by the BC Federation of Labour in anticipation of the publication of No Power Greater: A Century of Labour in BC (1967). Interviewers were author Paul Phillips and UBC student Bill Piket. The original tapes were digitized by the BC Labour Heritage Centre in 2024.
Joe Miyazawa, 1956
The Miyazawas discuss the formation of the union, its affiliation with the Vancouver Trades and Labor 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).