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Tellier, Gerry & Stan Wingfield - Interview
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1981-02-28Item number (ISN):186911Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN SEAMEN'S UNION HISTORY PROJECTAccession:1991-0356Media:SoundPart:1 of 1Production date:1981-02-28Production company:Jim Green (Interviewer)Description:Interview by Jim Green of Gerry Tellier, veteran of the labour movement in the 1930s and patrolman and ship's delegate for the Canadian Seamen's Union (CSU) and Stan Wingfield, a veteran organizer for the CSU. Some of the topics Tellier talks about are: unemployment and his union work during the Depression, the National Association of Marine Engineers, the defection of Pat Sullivan, former president of the CSU, the strikebreakers hired by the shipowners during the 1947 CSU strike and the severe injuries he received from Sullivan's "goons" in Montreal. Both Tellier and Wingfield talk about several prominent members in the CSU including Harry Davis, former president of the CSU, Mike Jackson, a militant CSU member, and Conrad Sauras, a member of the National Executive of the CSU.Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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