Showing 466 results

B, 3, 10, I 1-592: Hoito Restaurant war tax stamps; returned cheques. May 1918-Dec. 1918.

B, 3, 8, I 1-6: Hoito Restaurant invoices and receipts, 1926 (primarily June).

B, 3, 12, I 1-503: Hoito Restaurant returned cheques. Jan.-March 1919, Sept.-Dec. 1919.

B, 4, 2, I 1-359: Hoito Restaurant returned cheques. Apr.-May 1920, Sept.-Dec. 1920.

B, 4, 5, I 1-71: Hoito Restaurant returned cheques. May-June 1926.

B, 3, 13, I 1: Hoito Restaurant weekly food cards. [1919?]

B, 4, 1, I 1-7: Hoito Restaurant cheque stubs. Apr.-Dec. 1920.

C, 4, 1, I 1-10: Committee Minutes and correspondence for the Defence of Antilla [i,e. Anttila] and Siren who were arrested for organization activities. Some in Finnish. Feb. 3-Mar. 23, 1921.

C, 4, 5, I 1: O.B.U. Support Circle's Agitation Committee Account Book. Mar. 1921-Dec. 1922.

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

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

The One Big Union came into existence in 1919 as a Western Canadian industrial union revolt against the craft-dominated Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. For a short time the Lumber Workers Industrial Union #120 of the Industrial Workers of the World affiliated themselves with the O.B.U. since the I.W.W. was banned under the War Measures Act in 1918. Along with the I.W.W., the original majority shareholder in the Finnish Building Company, the Finnish Socialist Local was also banned. The Local donated its shares, nearly equally, to the Finnish O.B.U. Support Circle and the O.B.U. Central Committee, thus allowing the local O.B.U. Support Circle to gain control of the Labour Temple. However, the O.B.U. disappeared nearly as quickly as it came into existence and, by 1925, the former O.B.U. Finnish Support Circle, which had been acting independently of any remnant activities of the O.B.U. central organization, affiliated itself with the C.T.K.L. The O.B.U. turned over its shares in the Finnish Building Company to the C.T.K.L.

This series consists of minutes, correspondence, and financial records.

C, 4, 4, I 1-14: O.B.U. Correspondence: from Workers Socialist Publishing Co., Tie Vapauteen, New Era Publishing, General Defence Committee (Chicago), and R.B. Russell, General Secretary of O.B.U. (Winnipeg). Aug. 1921-Jan. 1927. 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.

C, 4, 7, I 1-6: O.B.U. Support Circle receipt books for dance tickets, music, wages, hall rental, etc. July-Sept. 1920, Apr. 1921-Nov. 1924.

C, 4, 11, I 1-7: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts (as above). June-Oct. 1922.

C, 5, 2, I 1-12: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts (as above). May-Dec, 1924.

C, 5, 3, I 1-10: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts (as above). Jan.-June 1925.

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, 5, 6, I 1-5: O.B.U. miscellaneous; statement of activities of agitation committee for 1922; leaflet The Workers' Party and the One Big Union; membership book, 1932; educational committee whist drive cards; card advising the purchase of union made overalls (found with 1919 OBU invoices).

C, 4, 9, I 1-11: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts (as above) and including; entertainment committee receipts, Intola O.B.U. Support Circle receipts, membership dues, appraisal note for books. 1921.

C, 5, 1, I 1-9: O.B.U. Support circle invoices and receipts (as above). Jan.-Apr. 1924.

C, 4, 8, I 1-3: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts for goods and services purchased in the daily operation of the organization, both the office and the hall; some invoices for the S.S.O. = Finnish Socialist Organization and Hoito, etc. included; 10 to 30 invoices per item. 1920.

C, 4, 10, I 1-9: O.B.U. Support Circle invoices and receipts (as above). Jan.-June 1922.

C, 4, 12, I 1-8: O.B.U. Support circle entertainment committee invoices and receipts. Jan.Sept. 1922.