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The worldwide depression prostrated the British Columbia economy in the early 1930s. Production levels dropped and industry stagnated. Unemployment became a pressing problem, and as jobless from throughout Canada rode the trains to the warmer climes of British Columbia's Lower Mainland there was fear that British Columbia was becoming "just a blamed resort for all the hoboes in Canada." Vancouver was inundated with unemployed workers and became the focus of agitation as the job-less organized demonstrations, tag days, and parades in order to gain the ear of governments and improve their circumstances. ... In interior centres, where the climate was much less kind, the jobless also launched an attack on the established order. In the Prince George district unemployed workers, led by communists, pressed the local government for higher relief payments, organized demonstrations and parades, initiated strikes in relief camps and at work projects, and even entered the political arena in the 1933 provincial election under the banner of the United Front. --Introduction
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A comic book is an unlikely entrée into the history of logging in coastal British Columbia, but Bus Griffiths’ 1978 graphic novel "Now You’re Logging" provides an intriguing window onto work in the woods in the 1930s. Griffiths worked for years as a logger on the coast, experiencing the camps of the 1930s directly. ..."Now You’re Logging" offers a particular version of the loggers’ life, but it still captures many aspects of work in the coastal forests of the 1930s, and does so in an accessible manner. There are many popular histories of British Columbia coastal logging, chock full of photographs, but Griffiths offers black-and-white drawings, and, as bird watchers inspecting field guides know, drawings often provide a more effective way of presentation. As a work of fiction it stands comfortably with other narratives, such as Haig-Brown’s "Timber" and Martin Allerdale Grainger’s "Woodsmen of the West," in giving helpful perspectives on the history of the loggers’ world. --From author's introduction and conclusion
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Reviewed: Island Timber: A Social History of the Comox Logging Company, Vancouver Island. Mackie, Richard Somerset.
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The article reviews the book, "Union Jack: Labour Leader Jack Munro," by Jack Munro and Jane O'Hara.
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This article reviews the book, "More Deadly Than War: Pacific Coast Logging 1827-1981," by Andrew Mason Prouty.
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In early 1919 a new union was created in British Columbia, an organization that brought together provincial loggers for the first time. Despite much initial success, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union was moribund by 1922, and it soon disappeared completely from provincial logging camps. As well as examining the grievances of the loggers, the changing nature of the logging industry, and the actions of employers, this history of the LWIU also offers insights into the character of the Canadian working class in the post-War years by highlighting the struggles of the Socialist Party of Canada, the One Big Union, and the Industrial Workers of the World to dominate the LWIU. Furthermore, this article draws Out and assesses the divergent programmes of the LWIU leaders, who were aligned with the Socialist Party of Canada, and the men in the camps, exposing a fundamental gap in the post-War socialist agenda.
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