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Eileen Tallman Sufrin fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1941-1985.

Reference:

R4025-0-3-E, MG31-B31

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101808

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Eileen Tallman Sufrin fonds
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Fonds includes:

10 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1941-1985.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

31 cm of textual records.
65 photographs 64 b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of series relating to: white collar unions, n.d., 1941-1943, 1978; department store unions and The Eaton Drive, n.d., 1943-1945, 1980-1982; United Steelworkers of America, 1943, 1954, 1957; the international labour movement, 1953, 1957-1959; Public Service Alliance of Canada, n.d., 1971-1972; Governor General's Award, n.d., 1979-1981; personal correspondence, 1964, 1973, 1979-1981; general correspondence, 1975-1985; publications, ca. 1945, 1954-1964, 1981; and Co-operative Commonwealth Youth Movement, 1975.

The fonds also contains photographs depicting the activities of Sufrin as representative of the United Steelworkers of America, and as a member of the Office and Professional Workers Organizing Committee, [ca. 1941-1953]; photos used in Sufrin's book about the Eaton's union drive; and photos of Sufrin and others relating to a reunion of participants in Eaton's organizing drive, 1980.

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Sufrin, Eileen, 1913-1999

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Sufrin, Eileen, 1913-1999 : Born in Montreal, Eileen Tallman Sufrin was raised in Toronto. An office worker in the 1930s, she became active in the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and worked with its youth movement and Trade Union Committee. In 1940, Charles Millard, Ontario representative of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and Canadian Director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (later the United Steelworkers of America), hired Tallman as a white-collar organizer. In the capacity of General Secretary-Treasurer of the Office and Professional Workers Organizing Committee, Tallman played a prominent role in an organizing drive among Canadian bank workers, 1941-1942, and in the unsuccessful recognition strike by workers at the Banque Canadienne Nationale in Montreal in 1942.

Tallman's first success in organizing white-collar workers came in 1943, when the John Inglis Company in Toronto recognized the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) as the representative of its office workers. She subsequently represented the USWA in Vancouver, 1943-1947. For the next five years, 1948-1952, Tallman headed the campaign to organize the workers at T. Eaton Company. In 1951, after a hard-fought campaign, strongly supported by the Canadian labour movement, the pro-union forces at Eaton's Toronto operations narrowly lost a certification vote. In 1982, Eileen Tallman Sufrin published "The Eaton Drive", her own account of these events.

Tallman subsequently directed the Office Workers Department of the USWA, 1953-1956, and in 1957 embarked on a year's leave to study the Italian trade-union movement. From 1959 to 1964 Tallman, who married Bert Sufrin in 1960, acted as Industrial Relations Administrator for the Saskatchewan Government Finance Office. After a short stint as editor of the "Canadian Packinghouse Worker", Sufrin did research in Ottawa for the federal Department of Labour, 1967-1972, where she was also active in the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Retiring in 1972 to White Rock, B.C., Sufrin was active in the local New Democratic Party. In 1979 she received the Governor-General's Award commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Persons Case. Eileen Sufrin died at White Rock in 1999.

Finding aid:

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Photographs: (Paper) Finding aid is a list of photographs (for accession 1982-056). FA-380

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General note:

Received in 1980, 1982, 1986, and 1996 from Eileen Sufrin of White Rock and Surrey, B.C.
Subject heading:

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Labour leaders - Canada, 1941-1985 Governor General's Award, 1979-1981

Banks and banking - Employees, 1941-1985 Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (Toronto, Ont.), 1948-1954

Labour organization - Canada, 1941-1985 Unionize, 1948-1953

Strikes and lockouts - Banks, 1941-1943 The Eaton Drive, 1982

Bank Canadienne Nationale Strike, 1942 (Montreal, Quebec) United Steelworkers of America, 1943-1957

Montreal (Quebec) - Strikes and lockouts, 1942 International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Women's School (France), 1953-1957

Trade-unions - Italy, 1953-1959 Economic Service Employees National Association, 1971-1972

Rewards (Prizes, etc.,), 1977-1981 The Provisional Committee of Department of Labour Workers, 1971-1972

T. Eaton Co., - Employees, 1948-1952, 1980-1982 Public Service Alliance of Canada, 1971-1972

J.H. Brockelbank, 1964-1981

Charles Millard, 1964-1981

Larry Sefton, 1964-1981

Stanley Knowles, 1964-1984

Madeleine Parent, 1975-1985

Public Enterprises in Saskatchewan, 1964

Retail Clerks' International Protective Association

Co-operative Commonwealth Youth Movement, ca. 1933-1939, 1975

Labour - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1982-056 NPC
1983-236 NPC
1996-03040-X
1996/0160

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-B31
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 B 31] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [SUFRIN, EILEEN TALLMAN 1983-236] 4979

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [SUFRIN, EILEEN TALLMAN 1982-056]

[Consultation 90 Open]

6406;

[Consultation 90 Open]

SC 0270;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions.
Copyright varies. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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