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George Gee fonds Series
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Acme plumbing and heating services and I.B.E.W. union records.

This series consists of the collected records pertaining to George Gee’s activities acting in the capacity of union business agent for Acme Plumbing and Heating Service and The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in the United States and Canada. The series contains correspondence, employer lists, reports, clippings and leaflets, contract amendments, union bulletins and other related documents. Correspondents and subjects include: Department of Labour, The Canadian Labour congress, correspondence with RCA, Rankin, Dean & Simons: Barrister, Solicitors, and Notaries Public, and Maxwell Construction Ltd.

Correspondence.

This series contains correspondence pertaining to various labour-related union issues, including notes, notifications and attachments. Correspondents include British Columbia Labour Relations Board, Fred W. Smelts Associates Ltd., ,International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Board of Directors of Electrical Estates Limited, Wireman, Copper Mountain Miners' Union, Vancouver Civic Employees Union, United Fisherman and Allied Workers' Union, International Association of Machinists Lodge No. 876, International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Local 507 British Columbia, and the Brotherhood of Paper Mill Workers.

Financial records.

This series consists of financial records for the businesses that George Gee represented as a Business Agent for the Union. This series consists of bank and taxation receipts, court documents, Northern Gem Mining Corporation shareholder documents, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers notices and shareholder documents, G. & B. Heating Ltd. documents and financial statements, electrical contractor certificate documents, letters, forms, property assessment and sales agreement, Workmen's Compensation Boards claim documents, and British Columbia Electric Co. pension documents.

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers business manager's files.

This series consists of George Gee's office files from the years he spent acting as business manager for the IBEW. This series contains exhibits from the IBEW internal trial of George Gee, IBEW constitutions from 1950 and 1954, wage agreements, financial statements, correspondence, grievances, and related documents.

Litigation files.

This series documents the court cases of Gee v. Waplington, Gee v. Freeman, and Gee v. the IBEW as part of Gee’s attempts to be re-instated into the union. The series contains lawyers’ notes on evidence, memoranda, lists of jurors, affidavits of service, statements of claim, correspondence, defendant’s statements, and various other court documents.

Photographs.

This series consists of photographs of the interior and exterior of the Press Club in British Columbia, and photographs, negatives and a contact sheet of railway construction.

Printed materials: pamphlets and broadsides.

This series consists of pamphlets, brochures, cartoon fliers and mass addressed letters relating to the charges against George Gee, his dismissal from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (I.B.E.W.), and the public reaction to the events.

Surveillance files.

Series contains the personal subject file and related files to George Gee. The series is comprised of entries created by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Security Service, and span over thirty years of surveillance and information gathering on the subject, including his affiliation with the Communist Party of Canada, his involvement in, and ultimate expulsion from the Union, and his general activities while he was under surveillance. It also contains Joyce Gee's correspondence with Library Archives Canada requesting access to the files.