UBC AtoM

RBSC-ARC-1662-4-07
File
1896-1953

File contains a variety of personal documents, including Johnson’s birth certificate,
marriage certificate, transportation records, and correspondence.

Work contract

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-10
File
1918

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Ticket stubs, Adams River Lumber Co. Ltd., (2)

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-12
File
1919

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Poll tax receipt

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-11
File
1919

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

[Hotel invoice, Norway]

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-13
File
1920

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Notebook

RBSC-ARC-1662-4-08
File
[ca. 1920-1939]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Notebook consists mostly of newspaper clippings.

Receipt from C.K. Tanabe, watch maker and jeweller

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-14
File
1924

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Official membership receipt from the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union of Canada. The receipt was found in a Membership wallet (enclosed) together with a remitter’s Receipt, 1937, and a newspaper clipping relating to Union organizing rights.

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-15
File
1926

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"Loan to purchase car for trading finance out/1933 to Trygue Gunnerud. Payment record, a 1929 Ford, Car Insurance from Calen Falls insurance company. A John Doe Life Insurance Contract. Financing: They Made a down Payment..."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-05
File
1929, 1933

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Unemployment registration card

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-17
File
1931

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

LWIU membership accounts book for [1931?]

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-05
File
[1931?]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

LWIU membership accounts book

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-04
File
1932-1933

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

1932, LWIU Accounts

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-01
File
[April 1932-June 1932]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Cash book

LWIU membership accounts books, other accounts books and notebooks

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-06
File
[1932-1934]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Accounts book, April 1931-Jan 1932.
Membership book, nd. [contains names of members[?] from various logging camps.]
Address book, nd.
Notebook, nd.
Membership accounts book, nd [1933-1934?]
Membership accounts book, nd [1 933-1934?]

"1932 Fraser Mills Alderman Douglas."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-06
File
ca. 1932

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Correspondence from company and among union members related to working conditions and wages at Fraser Mills ca. 1932.

Address and appointment book

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-08
File
1933

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Two editions of the Lumber Worker

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-09
File
1933

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"Preparing for 1934: Nov 16th/1933-Dec 16th/1933 L,Ws, pre-strike wage scale, instructions from hdqtrs to camp pre-strike."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-07
File
Nov 1933-Dec 1933

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Records relating to preparations for the 1934 LWIU strike.

"Jan 7/33 LWIU District Convention."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-08
File
Jan 1933

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"Laur-Wayne Registration: Owned by Robert Kenneth Lusk Sept 19/34."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-16
File
Sep 1934

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

1934 strike materials

RBSC-ARC-1662-4-01
File
1934

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

-“Memorandum of proceedings” for negotiations between the union and the various lumber employers. March 8th, 1934.
-Personal note made by Johnson calculating the pay scale for workers after the strike.
-Record entitled “Wage Scale Before the Strike of 1934.”

Correspondence

RBSC-ARC-1662-4-02
File
1934-1935

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

-Incoming letter, from: John Ferguson, Oct. 8th 1934.
-Incoming NSF cheque, from: The Royal Bank of Canada, Nov. 5th 1935.

"Carl Palmgren’s Report to Hdqtrs in Black Account Book Explains 'V' system of notation."

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-02
File
[1934]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Carl Palmgren’s correspondence with LWIU head office and various records from the Sixth Annual Convention of the Lumber Worker’s Industrial Union of Canada BC District and a transcript of a Radio Speech regarding the 1934 strike.

"To File with Mystery Brown us"

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-03
File
1934

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

December 22 (1934) Telegram attached to a flyer entitled “$20 for 50 cents.

Union Paraphernalia

RBSC-ARC-1662-4-03
File
1934

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Includes annotated union cards and one photograph (BC-1974/8) depicting the 1934 strike.

"1935 Worker’s Unity League Disbands, United Front Begins."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-04
File
Nov 1935

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Annotated draft Report of Executive Council to the Delegates of the 3 National Congress of the Worker’s Unity League of Canada.

Membership book, United Brotherhood of Carpenters And Joiners of America (2)

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-18
File
1936

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, Local 1-71 of the IWA"

RBSC-ARC-1662-2-07
File
1937-1946

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Correspondence, financial documents, meeting minutes and other records relating to Local 1-71 from 1937-1946.
Includes records related to Arne Johnson’s 1937 arrest while conducting union activities in a logging camp.

Correspondence : incoming

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-05
File
1937-[1965]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

MacKewich, Harry Dec. 8, 1958
Sointula Co-operative Store Jan. 22, 1937
Unidentified [1965]

"Statement (Report?) for Convention(?) 1937-1939."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-20
File
1937-1939

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Correspondence : incoming

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-04
File
1937-[1965]

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union, Local No. 2783.
June 11, 1937
June 25, 1937
July 23, 1937

Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union, Local No. 71.
Aug. 26, 1937
Jan. 21, 1938
April 22, 1938
April 25, 1938

Membership card of the Unemployed Woodworkers’ Section Of the I.W.A.

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-20
File
1938-1939

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Certificate of registration and application for direct relief

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-21
File
1938

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

<u>Briitsh Columbia Worker</u> receipt

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-22
File
1938

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"Minutes Local 71, Dec 28/ 1938. Membership from 926 in Sept 1939 to 404 one yr later."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-13
File
1938-1939

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Minutes of a meeting of the International Woodworkers of America, local 71; of America, local 71. July 2-3, 1938 Minutes of an I.W.A., local 71 meeting

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-01
File
July 2-3, 1938

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Credential card issued by the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-19
File
July 1 and July 31, 1938

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"Copy of 'Chunking Out', By-Laws, Financial Reports, Call for 2nd Semi Annual, 1943, etc."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-11
File
1940's

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Minutes of District Council meetings from the 1940's.

"Nov 1943 Convention Call, Financial Reports. Etc"

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-10
File
Nov 1943

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Records relating to the 1943 IWA Convention Call.

"Minutes, Local 1-71 Semi-Annual General, July 2/43, Minutes Exec July 1/43."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-12
File
July 1943

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

"District Council 43-44."

RBSC-ARC-1662-3-19
File
1943-1944

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Printed material

RBSC-ARC-1662-1-34
File
1945, n.d.

Part of Arne Johnson fonds

Leaflet, “I.W.A.; Union Launches Lawsuits Against Blubber Bay Officials.” n.d.
Pamphlet, The International Woodworker’s of America Publication #2, IWA n.d.
Sheet, Proposed Amendments to I.W.A. constitution n.d.
Booklet, Accident Prevention Regulations for Logging. n.d.
Vancouver: Workmen’s Compensation Board 1945
Clippings, (2) Soviet Russia and the Press n.d.
Differences between the Communists and Social Democratic Methods n.d.

I.W.A. membership book; dues and assessment stamps