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Pritchett, Harold

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Photo of the International Woodworkers of America (I.W.A) delegation to the B.C Legislature in Victoria to demand voting rights for South Asians. The delegation was sponsored by the I.W.A in 1943. The delegation includes Didar S. Bains, Naranjan S. Sidhu, Naginder S. Gill (Secretary of the Khalsa Diwan Society), Garib S. Lehli, Phangan S. Gill, Sir Harold Holland, Harold Pritchett, Mohinder S. Sangha, Darshan S. Sangha, Arjan S. Rhandhawa, H. S. Garcha, and "Tikka" S. Bains.
2023_07_02_002.pdf (491.53 KB)
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An excerpt from a printed document, possibly IWA's 1946 publication Proceedings: Ninth Annual Convention , including pages 60, 61, 62 and 63. These pages primarily cover resolution No. 17, concerning the treatment of Black IWA delegates who were denied access to proper rooms in various Vancouver hotels and instead sequestered into cramped and substandard lodgings. The discussion of this resolution concerns who is at fault for this mistreatment and what measures ought to be taken in response, including the possibility of not holding future conventions in the city of Vancouver, and closes with a number of delegates voting in opposition to the resolution. Page 60 also includes the brief resolution 16, concering safety, and page 63 includes the beginning of resolution No. 18, concering transportation of seriously injured loggers.
2023_07_02_001.pdf (444.13 KB)
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An excerpt of the 1946 IWA publication Proceedings: Ninth Annual Convention , including the cover and pages 31, 32 and 33. These pages cover the end of a discussion concerning budgeting for union members' medical bills, the entirety of resolution no. 1, where Darshan Singh discusses the impact that the ongoing Chinese Civil War is having on North American Trade and advocates for the protest of armed intervention in China (Operation Beleaguer), the entirety of resolution no. 2, where Darshan Singh advocates for the protest of Canada's military support of the Netherlands during the Indonesian National Revolution, and resolutions 3 through 5, each very brief motions concerning Francoist Spain, atomic energy, and the labour code, respectively.
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Photo of the International Woodworkers of America (I.W.A) delegation to the B.C Legislature in Victoria to demand voting rights for South Asians. The delegation was sponsored by the I.W.A in 1943. The delegation includes Didar S. Bains, Naranjan S. Sidhu, Naginder S. Gill (Secretary of the Khalsa Diwan Society), Garib S. Lehli, Phangan S. Gill, Sir Harold Holland, Harold Pritchett, Mohinder S. Sangha, Darshan S. Sangha, Arjan S. Rhandhawa, H. S. Garcha, and "Tikka" S. Bains.