Labor unions--Canada--History
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Partial list of 72 unions and MLAs who supported the franchise for South Asian Canadians in 1947.
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Newspaper clipping titled, "Labour leader to address Sikhs," published on The Province, January 12 1943, 5.
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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.
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Photo of Darshan Singh Sangha with members of the BC District Council of the IWA in Vancouver.
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Labour Day Sports, Lake Cowichan, BC.
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Portrait of Darshan Singh Sangha.
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Photo of 1943 Lake Cowichan Dominion Day parade. 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.
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Letter addressed to Hindi workers by International Woodworkers of America [I.W.A.].
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International Woodworkers of America promotional label.
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Group photo of the "donkey" crew on Hill 60, Kapoor Lumber Company, Sooke Lake. South Asian-owned Kapoor Lumber Company at Sooke Lake was notorious for paying lower wages to its Asian workers. For this reason it was a target for union organizing in the 1940s