[Photo of union members' daughters at the 1943 Dominion Day parade, Lake Cowichan, B.C.]

1943-07-01

Photo of 8 young girls posed in the grass in front of a fence at the 1943 Lake Cowichan Dominion Day parade. The girls are wearing tutu-like dresses and paper hats decorated with pictures of a sun rising behind pine trees and text reading "IWofA". Together, the girls are holding up 5 cloth banners with various union slogans printed on them.

Lake Cowichan, 1943. Kaatza Station Museum & Archives, N01704, IWA Local 1-80, Wilmer Gold Photo Collection, ©United Steelworkers Local 1-1937. "The entire membership of the IWA got behind South Asian demands for equality at work. In this photo from the 1943 Lake Cowichan Dominion Day parade, children of union members held a banner promoting "Equal Pay For Equal Work For All" — a key union demand that was achieved in the 1943 and 1946 agreements." Banners read "Auxiliary Members of To-morrow Ladies' Auxiliary Local 30 Lake Cowichan I.W.A. [?].C.I.O.", "Support Local 80's Labor Program", "Every Union Man's Wife in an Auxiliary", "Equal Pay for Equal Work for All", and "Unity in War and Peace". Dominion Day is now commonly known as Canada Day.

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