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C, 4, 13, I 1-8: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts (as above). Jan.-Apr. 1923.

C, 4, 14, I 1-11: O.B.U. Support circle invoices and receipts (as above). May-Dec. 1923.

C, 5, 5, I 1-8: O.B.U. Nahjus Sports Club = Voimisteluseura Nahjus invoices and receipts; accounts and results of sports events. Oct. 1920-1923.

C, 4, 3, I 1-2: O.B.U. Festival Committee Minutes. June 1922.

C, 5, 4, I 1-5: O.B.U. Agitation Committee invoices and receipts (sometimes called L.W. Agitation Committee). Jan.-May 1922, Dec. 1922, Jan., Feb.-Sept. 1923.

D, 8, 14, I 1-5: Newspaper clippings: cartoons, poems, article regarding Rosval and Voutilainen as communist agitators instigating strikes, letters to editor, obituary notices of local Finns from 1975-1977 from the letters T to V.

D, 8, 13, I 1-9: Newspaper clippings of national labour news. Some from 1943, some from News Chronicle (Port Arthur).

D, 8, 15, I 1: Newspaper clippings: 180 articles clipped from the Industrialisti, Canadan Uutiset and other papers by Alex Murto, the author of most of the articles. Labour in Canada. Spans years 1943-1971.

D, 9, 8, I 1-11: Music for Piano: Hevoshujari (a musical production) by Sam. Sihvo; Heili Karjalasta by Georg Malmst

D, 9, 11, I 1-4: Music miscellaneous: Eusueno Seductor; one sheet of music for piano, no title; La Paloma, music for 1st and 2nd trombones; A Good Man is Hard to Find Music not complete for titles.

Consists of additional organizations affiliated with labour and the Finnish immigrant experience. Materials on the Temperance Society, Defence Leagues, Workers International Relief, Finnish Organization of Canada, Finnish Socialist Local, INudstrial Worker, Work People's College, Communist Party, Lumberworkers International Union of Canada, numerous membership cards, community clubs, cooperative stores, photographs, and framed watercolours.

F, 14, 38, I 1-22: Lumberworker's meeting minutes of Port Arthur and area: primarily regarding the lumber strikes of 1929. All in Finnish except one.

C, 4, 2, I 1-2: Minutes of general meetings (no organization indicated) regarding Antti Juntunen. Mar. 17, 1921. In Finnish.

E, 11, 31, I 1-2: Metal-Machinery Workers Union #440 of the I.W.W. bulletins, Sept. and Nov. 1928, Wisconsin.

E, 11, 33, I 1-6: Metal and Coal Mine Workers #210 & #220 financial statements and bulletin, 1926; financial statement Feb. 1928 to Mar. 1929, Butte, Montana.

E, 11, 34, I 1-8: Metal and Coal Mine Workers bulletins, leaflets, circulars, and financial statements regarding the Colorado Coal Miners Strike, Oct. 30, 1927 to Apr. 1928.

E, 11, 32, I 1-3: Metal Mine Workers Union #210 of the I.W.W. minutes, Aug. 15, 1926, Kirkland Lake, Ont. ; Coal Mine Workers Union #220 of the I.W.W. minutes, Feb. 1, 1929 and [1929?], Walsenburg, Colorado.

H, 22, 18, I 1-4: Membership cards: General Defense Committee [I.W.W.?], 1929; Workers' Unity, 1933; Industrial Workers Unemployed Union; The National Unemployed Workers' Association of Canada.

E, 11, 30, I 1-10: Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union #510 of the I.W.W.: by-laws (n.d.); minutes and resolutions, Manhattan branch, 1928-1932; minutes, Buffalo, N.Y. branch, 1929; bulletin, minutes, financial statement of conference Mar. 1929 in New York; minutes for Houston, Sept. 1930-Jan. 1932 and Baltimore, Mar. 1931; referendum ballot, 1931; bulletin, July 1928.

F, 14, 45, I 1-12: Lumberworkers Strike: receipts for food, rent, transportation, etc.; ballots for strike action; subscription lists for strike relief; report of committee investigating charges of I.W.W. scabbing; 2 copies of report The Shabaqua Pulp Camp Workers Strike of 1929, Port Arthur, includes Finnish translation. 1929. Some in Finnish.

Many lumberworkers in Northern Ontario joined the I.W.W. during World War 1 but later joined the O.B.U. during the ban on the I.W.W. Some of the lumberworkers returned to the I.W.W. #120 in 1924. The Sudbury branch appeared to be the primary I.W.W. organizers for the lumberworkers in Northern Ontario. The Sudbury branch of the I.W.W. #120 Lumberworkers moved to Port Arthur in 1926 and operated out of 260 Bay St. until 1931 at which time all their supplies were moved to the Labour Temple at 314 Bay St. However, the hub of the lumberworkers' union activity was based out of the Labour Temple during this time. After 192? local #120 was competition to the Lumberworkers Industrial Union of Canada based at 316 Bay Street.

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, financial records, publications, lumberworkers' joint conference minutes, strike reports, and poetry. Includes minutes, correspondence, and resolutions from union locals throughout North America.

F, 14, 41, I 1-15: Lumberworker's Conference resolutions, minutes and correspondence held in Port Arthur. Aug. 4, 1929. Some in Finnish.

C. 4, 6, I 1-3: Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Ontario of the One Big Union Financial Report, 1924; list of members, alphabetically from A to H for years 1919-1923.

H, 22, 19, I 1-27: Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada membership cards. 1926-1929 and 1933-1936.

D, 8, 6, I 1: Ledger: mostly blank, letters and lines drawn for charts; last page - a blank chart for vital statistics and physical measurements; loose sheet inside with Morse Code signalling instructions, no date. Note: Oversized - filed at end of fonds.