A fine old conflict

Display originally created by David Yorke for Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference, held in Vancouver, c. 2002. The display was modified for use at the CUPE BC 50th Convention in 2015, and again in 2016. The title is a reference to the autobiography of Jessica Mitford and her willful mishearing of the line "The Internationale." Top left and right: Member's medal and ribbon, Bricklayers and Masons, Hamilton Ontario, ca 1900; 21st Convention, United Mine Workers of America, Indianapolis, 1910 (bas relief graphic of miner and child) British Tradition section: membership card, Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants; ASRS medal and ribbon with flags and locomotive; Associated Shipwrights Society medal and ribbon with Britannia, shipyard scene; member badges for: National Union of Gas and General Workers, National Federation of Women Workers, Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Trade Union Congress 1929, Friendly Society of Iron Founders; Marine Engineers Association, National Union of Textile Workers, National Union of Miners (Yorkshire, Derbyshire areas), National Union of Teachers, National Union of Agricultural Workers, Ship Constructors and Shipwrights Association
Jeweler's Art section: Row 1: International Association of Machinists fob; International Jewelry Workers Union pin; medallion of Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers; International Typographical union Medal; heavy badge, National Women's Trade Union League; Regina Trades and Labor Council 1934; May 1 1928 badge (Germany). Row 2: Convention medals: UMWA 1907; ITU 1911; International Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paperhangers 1913; Trades and Labor Congress of Canada 1916; Journeymen Barbers 1919; American Federation of Labor 1929; Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America 1933; UMW 1946; BC Government Employees Association 1952; Brewery Workers Union 1954 Lodge Ribbon Section: Row 1: Journeymen Stone Cutters Association of North America (front); Trades and Labor Congress Federal Union 17, Berlin Ontario (front); International Association of Metal Mechanics, Local 66 Toronto (front); Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Cantilever Lodge St. John NB (front).
Row 2: Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Employees, Saskatoon (front); International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers Local 86 Seattle (front); Journeymen Barbers' International Union Local 120 Vancouver BC (front) International Association of Machinists (front); Iron Molders Union of North America (front); American Labor Union - Grand Forks BC Federal Union 281 (black); Union Protective des Cordonniers du Québec (front); United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 1435 North Vancouver BC (black).