“Mr. Big Wood or Sawdust?”: Joseph R. Smallwood and the 1959 IWA Strike in Central Newfoundland

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
“Mr. Big Wood or Sawdust?”: Joseph R. Smallwood and the 1959 IWA Strike in Central Newfoundland
Abstract
Joseph R. Smallwood was, for lack of a better term, a Newfoundlander for Newfoundland. Or so, that is how he portrayed himself. Under the first ten years of Confederation, Smallwood pushed a program of rapid industrialization. This program was largely unsuccessful. So, when the IWA [International Woodworkers of America] declared a strike on the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company in January 1959, which posed a significant threat to the province’s most prosperous industry (pulp and paper), Smallwood leapt into action. Rather than support the loggers’ elected union, he banned the IWA in favour of a provincial union that was to be run by Max Lane, President of the Fishermen’s Federation. Utilizing key documents from the Smallwood Collections at Archives and Special Collections, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University, this thesis examines the factors that led up to this decision, its outcome and ultimately, and why Smallwood chose to do what he did.
Type
M.A., History
University
Dalhousie University
Place
Halifax, N.S.
Date
2019
# of Pages
142 pages
Language
English
Short Title
“Mr. Big Wood or Sawdust?
Accessed
11/19/21, 2:57 AM
Library Catalog
dalspace.library.dal.ca
Extra
Accepted: 2019-08-27T13:49:18Z
Citation
Campbell, D. (2019). “Mr. Big Wood or Sawdust?”: Joseph R. Smallwood and the 1959 IWA Strike in Central Newfoundland [M.A., History, Dalhousie University]. https://DalSpace.library.dal.ca//handle/10222/76317