February 2018 - 1919-Conference - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Saturday Meeting
by James Naylor 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Jason Hooper from the West End Cultural Centre is going to join us for the first part of our meeting on Saturday to discuss bringing in Billy Bragg. He needs some information from us, and I'm sure we want to be on the same page with the WECC. Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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WGSCC Meeting Saturday
by James Naylor 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we are meeting this Saturday, March 3, at 1:30 in our usual place (2B23 University of Winnipeg). The main reason for the meeting is to see where we are with proposals and figure out what we need to do to round out the program. You should all have access to the proposals through Dropbox. Let me know if you are having trouble. I've been updating the Dropbox files, so check back. We also want to have a discussion of the roundtables, so have a look at what the subcommittee proposed so we can begin to contact people. Let me know if there are other items of business that we should deal with. Thanks, and see you on Saturday. Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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Proposals
by James Naylor 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Hi everyone, We've begun to get more proposals! I'm organizing the proposals into two folders (one for individual paper proposals, the other for panel proposals) and I will share them with all of you on Dropbox. I will keep them updated as they come in. This way, I hope, everyone will be as prepared as they can be for our March 3rd meeting where we will discuss them, and see where we are at. Let me know if you have any trouble accessing the Dropbox folders. Best, Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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article for Rank and File
by Scott Price 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Hello, This is the write up for Rank and File.ca. I will also attach some of our graphics to use for the article. It should go up early next week. Please let me know if this is good to go. I wanted to make it fairly short and to the point. Thanks Scott

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Roundtable Sub-Committee Report
by James Naylor 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

Hi Everyone, Attached is the report of the Sub-Committee we established at our last meeting to propose the structure for the Roundtables. Please feel free to comment. We will be discussing this at our March 3rd meeting of the broader committee. Thanks, Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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please respond: travel subsidies
by Julie Guard 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Dear All: Thanks for the budget information, Jim. It appears that we are working with a pretty restricted budget at this point: $25,000 won't go very far. I understand that we are hoping to attract more funds from other sources, but we will need to be careful until we know we'll have more money for travel and other costs. It might be useful for us to develop a ballpark idea about how much we expect to get from registrations and contributions. Meanwhile, I would appreciate it if this committee would consider whether we can offer air fare for this scholar if that person chose to submit a proposal and it was accepted. Air fare would probably be about $800. This person is an established and well-regarded labour historian who has published two very well-regarded monographs with prestigious academic presses as well as a number of articles in highly ranked academic journals. In other words, this labour historian would add significant value and prestige to our conference. The person does not have an academic position and therefore does not have access to research funds, which people in faculty positions do have. I have no idea whether air fare alone would be sufficient to attract this person, but it would be worth a try. At this point, things are not looking good for us. We have far too few paper proposals and no panel proposals. I have reached out to my friends across Canada and I believe a few established labour historians do plan to propose. But at the moment, I suggest we do our best to attract a few more papers by offering at least air fare to worthy proposals from people who do not have faculty positions. Perhaps committee members would weigh in on this so I can respond to the scholar with information that a subsidy can be found for a proposal that is accepted from a precariously employed scholar. Thanks for responding! julie From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of Mochoruk, James Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:40 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] travel subsidies Hi Folks, The only thing that I might add is that the budgeting exercise was predicated on the Committee's desire to provide travel assistance to invited roundtable participants, graduate students and (poorly paid) community/labour activists who were contributing to the conference in one way or other, and other participants who might not be able to afford their own travel costs. The SSHRC grant for which we intend to apply would provide at least $25,000 for that express purpose. Other funds which we may acquire - from unions and other sponsors might also be directed in this direction. It seemed that this was the will of the committee and was generally agreed to in preliminary budget discussions - but no hard and fast rules or policies have been established - at least not that I know of. Jim M. ________________________________ From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> <1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca>> on behalf of James Naylor <Naylor(a)BrandonU.CA<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.CA>> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 4:25 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] travel subsidies Good point; I think we can begin the discussion on the listserv. We did have a brief discussion of this last meeting in the context of the roundtables in which we affirmed that the first priority is to pay the travel and accommodation of roundtable participants. It is hard to know what that will add up to. I think it is our intention of being able to subsidize low wage academics and activists beyond this but I'm not sure how concrete we can be about amounts. Jim M. and Rhonda, who have been working on the budget can add something here, if they can. The call for papers did indicate that we were applying for funding for the general purpose of subsidizing attendance to the extent that it is possible. I'm just not sure how much more we can say about this until we know how successful our SSHRC application is. Comments? Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80] From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of Esyllt Jones Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 4:15 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee <1919-conference(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference@lists.umanitoba.ca>> Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] travel subsidies Indeed, I would agree with that. Esyllt On Feb 10, 2018, at 4:09 PM, Julie Guard <Julie.Guard(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Julie.Guard@umanitoba.ca>> wrote: Hi Everyone: I have been inviting people who've written on labour history to submit proposals and have started to get good responses. But a question has come up that I can't answer about travel subsidies for low-income and precariously employed scholars and activists. I do not recall that we have a policy, but perhaps the committee developed one at a meeting in the summer when I was away. I don't see anything about that on our website. If we do have one, could someone please send me the details? If we don't have one, I suggest that it's urgent to get one before our deadline of 28 February. The possibility of travel support will make a critical difference to some potential presenters. One for sure is a person we'd be very happy to have. If we do not have a policy, I suggest we develop one before the deadline, even if that requires us to meet (as it were) online. Thoughts? julie _______________________________________________ 1919-Conference mailing list 1919-Conference(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-Conference@lists.umanitoba.ca> http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/1919-conference Esyllt Jones Professor, Dept of History Dean of Studies St John's College University of Manitoba College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada Esyllt.Jones(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Esyllt.Jones@umanitoba.ca>

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travel subsidies
by Julie Guard 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

Hi Everyone: I have been inviting people who've written on labour history to submit proposals and have started to get good responses. But a question has come up that I can't answer about travel subsidies for low-income and precariously employed scholars and activists. I do not recall that we have a policy, but perhaps the committee developed one at a meeting in the summer when I was away. I don't see anything about that on our website. If we do have one, could someone please send me the details? If we don't have one, I suggest that it's urgent to get one before our deadline of 28 February. The possibility of travel support will make a critical difference to some potential presenters. One for sure is a person we'd be very happy to have. If we do not have a policy, I suggest we develop one before the deadline, even if that requires us to meet (as it were) online. Thoughts? julie

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CONFERENCE FACEBOOK PAGE IS UP!
by Krishna Lalbiharie 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Hi, folks! Our conference is now live and active on Facebook. Feel free to share our page -- and our website -- on your respective social media walls. We can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/1919WinnipegGeneralStrikeConference/ All my best for now! Krishna 204.899.8687 P.S. Invite all of your contacts to like our page!

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Ukrainian Labour Temple
by James Naylor 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Hi folks, I spoke to Greg McFarlane, and it turns out that we were mistaken!! The MFL event is on the SATURDAY evening. Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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Local activists
by Julie Guard 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Another idea for local activists for our panel on Making Labour a Social Force. Lynne Fernandez has for some years worked with the Migrant Workers Solidarity Network in Manitoba, and they did interviews with Mexican workers about abuses on some of the farms. When they reported those abuses to ES, one of the officers was able to audit farmers' books and establish that workers were not being paid properly. The Manitoba legislation passed by the previous government allowed them to do that, and to demand a remedy. On Poverty and the Fight for a Material Existence, I recommend Kirsten Bernas, who is without doubt a community activist. Here are just two entries about her: Kirsten Bernas chairs the Provincial Working Group of The Right to Housing Coalition, a CCPA Manitoba Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba and is the Researcher and Policy Manager for The Canadian Community Economic Development Network in the Manitoba office. Kirsten Bernas is a Research and Policy Manager with the Canadian Community Economic Development (CED) Network in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Kirsten represents the Canadian CED Network on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's Alternative Federal Budget Steering Committee, Make Poverty History Canada's Steering Committee, and Right to Housing Coalition's Provincial Committee. She has been an active member of Make Poverty History Manitoba. julie

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