Union heritage.

Display created by David Yorke for 2013 CUPE convention and subsequently modified for a BC Labor Heritage Centre event. Top left: ornate items from the British labour movement.
Top centre right: Parade ribbons from British Columbia: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 755, Nanaimo ca 1890; Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Victoria BC ca 1900; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 1435 North Vancouver ca 1910; Brotherhood of Railway Carmen Lodge 280, Port Mann BC ca 1914; Moyie sub division, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Cranbrook BC ca 1910. Second row: section of material on the 8 Hour Day movement: 10 items from various unions; match safe issued by the Cigar Makers' Union; Membership Book and badges from the IWW Industrial Workers of the World; Parade ribbon and 9 pins from the Knights of Labor – Parade ribbon ca 1890, Ottawa Ontario - pins ca 1885 – 1900; Section on the Depression years in Canada - pins from Relief Project Workers Union ca 1937, Unemployed Conference 1933; Evans Defence Fund CLDL 1933-4; "Save Our Youth - Regina Emergency Defence Committee" - issued by supporters of the 1935 On to Ottawa Trek; pin from Canadian Labor Defence League; pin from Workers' Unity League May Day 1934 - transcription of text: "Unite and Strike for a Living Wage – Free Our Brothers From Bennett's Jails – May Day 1934 – Workers of All Countries Unite! – Against Capitalist Hunger, War and Fascism – Workers' Unity League of Canada." - all this plus a graphic of two workers with a banner, on a 7/8 the inch button, must rank among the most concentrated messaging ever; Convention badge and medal, Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, Vancouver 1931. Note: the missing button in the depression section is "I Support the Hunger March" which is now found in MD 11, above. It could well be re-positioned here. Lower section: Organizing in the late 1930's and 1940's - CIO drive and industrial unions in BC; Union recognition (Kirkland Lake Strike); Union security - from quarterly dues buttons - achievement of the check-off; annual member buttons; Section on the development of public sector unions in Canada; section on events and causes: opposition to injunctions*; Bill 39 (1947); Bill 43, Bill 33, October 14 1975 Canada -wide general strike against Wage Controls; Operation Solidarity 1983; Collective Bargaining Charter of Rights SCC Case, 2008. Note: in this bottom section, most, but not all, of the items are duplicates from the union's main collection, and the "missing" items are single items that have been returned to the union main collection. (Exceptions: CIO "Organize the Unorganized"; UAW-CIO Organizing Committee; Volunteer Organizer IUMSWA; Mine-Mill button and ribbon for 1939 convention); RWB "I Support the Windsor Strikers" (1945 UAW Ford Strike) Bill 43 button, Bill 33 button; BCGEA Delegate medal, Nanaimo 1954.