The Vancouver and District Waterfront Association was the union for longshoremen working on Vancouver's waterfront between 1923 and 1935.It was established as a company union by the Shipping Federation of British Columbia after it defeated a strike and broke the local of the International Longshoremen's Association that previously represented the longshoremen.
Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers' Association | |
Founded | 1923 |
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Dissolved | 1935 |
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Agitators from the Communist Party of Canada were elected to the union executive in 1933, linking it to the Workers' Unity League and thus transformed it into a militant union. The VDWWA was itself broken in 1935 after another waterfront strike in Vancouver.
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Madsen, Chris (2016). "Vancouver's Waterfront and Longshore Labour in 1918: Background Context to James Shaver Woodworth's On the Waterfront", The Northern Mariner/Le marine du nord, 26/1, 31–47.
- Madsen, Chris (2018). New Westminster Waterfront Strike - 1935, BC Labour Heritage Centre booklet and historical commemoration plaque.
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