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WGSCC meeting!!
by James Naylor 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Hi everyone, We're moving into high gear this fall in terms of organizing the Winnipeg General Strike conference. There are a number of things to deal with fairly quickly so we will be meeting the weekend after Labour Day. The next meeting will be SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, at 1:30 in the regular place (please confirm this Janis) in Bryce Hall: 2B23. I'll circulate an agenda beforehand, but let me know of anything you might want added. Enjoy the remains of the summer! 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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Billy Bragg
by James Naylor 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Hi everyone, and I hope summer's enjoyable for all, We are still in the process of seeing about whether we can get Billy Bragg, but we've also been in some talks with the CCPA. If you remember, we were arranging the Bragg events with Jason from the West End Cultural Centre and the idea was that we would have an event with him at the Ukrainian Labour Temple on the Friday night, and the WECC would have him on the Saturday. The CCPA expressed interest and we had suggested or assumed they might want to do something with him on Sunday. I recently talked to Molly McCraken from the CCPA. They are concerned that there was not a sufficient audience to have 3 Bragg events and suggested that there be a large, cosponsored event at Knox on the Friday night. I was initially dubious about this since I didn't want our event to be hijacked. However, I have rethought this a bit. We were originally working with the CCPA on the keynote issue since there were clear benefits for both us and them. For us, it helped mitigate some of the financial concerns about bringing in a big name speaker. I think this remains true of the Bragg event. It seems to me that we could rearrange things to the benefit of everyone. We could participate in a large Bragg event on the Friday, with heavily discounted tickets to conference attendees (the MFL has contributed $5000 to the Bragg event, and maybe they would be okay with us using it to discount tickets). This would allow us to rethink the Thursday Keynote event. I would suggest (as long as it's not a problem for the Labout Temple) that we hold the keynote there: we could bus people directly from the U of W, serve a light dinner, and have the keynote/social/wine and cheese there. That's just one possibility, others of you might have others. Let me know what you think, 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 - Monday, July 16
by James Naylor 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Hello all, I hope everyone is enjoying summer. The next meeting of the Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee will be on MONDAY, JULY 16 at 1:30 p.m. This seems to be the date and time that fits everyone’s schedule who is around that week and who responded to me. We will meet in our regular space — The Oral History room at the University of Winnipeg (2B23). Janis or Scott: can you make sure it’s available and open? Thanks. I’ll circulate an agenda when we get closer to the date of the meeting. In the meantime, please email me with items that you think should be included. 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/ [cid:image001.png@01D3620B.5A4D3D10]

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Reminder of WGSCC
by James Naylor 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

I didn’t want to interrupt your summer weekend, but don’t forget the Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee meeting tomorrow (Monday) at 1:30. Hope to see you all, Regular place. 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/ [cid:image001.png@01D3620B.5A4D3D10]

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WGSCC - SSHRC Grant
by James Naylor 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi everyone, We just got word that we did not receive the SSHRC Connections grant for which we had applied. This comes as a surprise, although we did apply early in order to be able to re-apply should there be a snag. This is clearly what we will be doing. We will be receiving a letter from SSHRC explaining the decision, which should give us something to go on when we prepare our new application. This is a hiccough, although we have strong support from other sources and time to respond. We can discuss all of this at our upcoming meeting on Monday, July 16, at 1:30 at our regular meeting space: Room 2B23 at the University of Winnipeg. 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/ [cid:image001.png@01D3620B.5A4D3D10]

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WGSCC - Our next meeting
by James Naylor 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi everyone, I am emailing about the next meeting of the Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee. At our last meeting we decided by consensus to meet again sometime in mid-June. On reflection and in the interest of not holding redundant meetings, it seems to me that we should put that off until after June 30, the date by which we are to hear back from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SHRCC) about our grant application. Given the importance of this grant, we would be meeting soon after receiving news back from them in any case. It should also be after the next meeting (on July 3) of the "central committee" overseeing all 1919 events (which now seems to be calling itself the "1919 Advisory Committee." Their decisions could also affect our deliberations as well. For selfish reasons, I'm going to suggest meeting during the week of July 14-21 since I plan to be in Winnipeg during that time in any case. It will potentially make it easier to meet in an evening if that is what people want. If that week is difficult, we could meet before that (but after July 3), which would be entirely fine for me as well. Bear in mind that there are always going to be people who can't make a meeting, although if very few can come, it creates a problem. So, get back to me on whether that week is alright, and whether an afternoon or evening meeting is preferable (U of W people: is there any difficulty getting into the Wesley Hall and the Oral History room in the evenings?) Also, if there are pressing issues, let me know and we can potentially discuss them on the listserv. I hope all are enjoying summer! 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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JOHN RAE AS A ROUNDTABLE SPEAKER RE: DISABILILTIES AND LABOUR RIGHTS
by Krishna Lalbiharie 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi, folks! My apologies for pressing this now, but we've little time left re: SSHRC grant app. Rhonda has rightly reminded our WGSCC Committee that our conference ought to include labour voices, which reflect people with disabilities. To that end, she has suggested that we approach John Rae as a prospective roundtable speaker, whose bio can be viewed here: http://www.innoversity.com/roadmap/speakers/john-rae/ Says Rhonda (of Rae): "Rae was an active union member in the ON public service; he remains an active advocate for people with disabilities and their workplace struggles; he can speak expertly to challenges with human rights commissions for people with disabilities dealing with workplace discrimination; he also played a key role in the Canadian Human Rights Museum’s universal access committee; and has consulted with CMHR on a variety of issues related to people with disabilities." It sounds like a no-brainer to me. Rae can easily fit into the second Roundtable panel and, what's more, will serve as a critical and unique, leading voice in conversations re: disability rights and labour issues. Can I get a vote, here, from committee members to extend Rae a Roundtable invite? And quickly (forgive me)? KL 204.899.8687

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ADD JERRY WOODS AS "ATTENDING" RE: ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS (SSHRC GRANT)
by Krishna Lalbiharie 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

JERRY WOODS has agreed to participate in our Roundtable on *Building an Inclusive Labour Movement.* *Jim M., Rhonda and Paul J:* Is it too late to include Jerry in our SSHRC app? His info. is as follows: JERRY WOODS: Past chair, MB Human Rights Commission; Indigenous labour rights activist WINNIPEG, MB Status: *ATTENDING* This is FANTASTIC! KL 204.899.8687 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JERRY WOODS <jerryw(a)shaw.ca> Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:06 AM Subject: Re: SPEAKING REQUEST RE: 1919 WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE CENTENARY CONFERENCE (MAY 9-11, 2019 | WINNIPEG, MB) To: Krishna Lalbiharie <krishna.lalbiharie(a)gmail.com> Hi Krishna. I accept your invitation with pleasure. Thank you Sent from my iPhone

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Responses to Proposals
by James Naylor 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hi all, I'm going to contact those who made proposals and tell them, for the most part, that they have been accepted and we will get back to them closer to the time of the conference with the schedule and any other guidelines. For those who were not there, we returned to the issue late in the meeting. There were 3 proposals that we were debating: Mancini, Fairbairn, and Bako. We decided to find a place for Mancini in one of the other panels, and to reject Fairbairn's proposal. On Bako, we decided that I would contact him and suggest that he play some other role in the conference. Shortly afterwards, I was talking to my daughter Adrie, who some of you know (she works for Workers United in Toronto) who had just returned from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. She was quite keen that we have a session on young workers and said that she would be willing to participate and/or to find someone. I think she has a point that we do want to have something addressing young workers as it would be attractive to the MFL Young Members Assembly. I won't contact Bako immediately, but let me know what you think about constructing a session addressing young workers. Also, after the deadline I was contacted by Myer Siemiatycki at Ryerson, who missed the deadline and wanted to see if he could still apply. He was a contributor to Craig Heron, ed., The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925. He is interested in presenting on the Mathers' Commission that was investigating industrial relations in 1919. I said that I would ask the committee if we would accept a proposal from him. 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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STATUS REPORT ON ROUNDTABLES RE: SSHRC GRANT APPLICATION — GREAT NEWS!!!!
by Krishna Lalbiharie 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Greetings! After my Sunday, April 8, 2018 appeal to all 13 identified prospective WGSCC roundtable participants, I am pleased to report the following, which is current as of this writing: *1. POVERTY AND THE FIGHT FOR A MATERIAL EXISTENCE (THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER LIFE)* DEENA LADD: Workers’ Action Centre Toronto, ON Status: *ATTENDING* JOHN CLARKE: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Toronto, ON Status: *ATTENDING* VICTOR ELKINS: Hospital Employees Union Vancouver, BC Status: *ATTENDING* SEAN SMITH: Toronto Airport Workers’ Council Toronto, ON Status: *ATTENDING* *2. BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE LABOUR MOVEMENT (SOLIDARITY ACROSS BOUNDARIES)* FRED HAHN: CUPE Ontario Toronto (Markham), ON Status: *ATTENDING* CHRIS RAMSAROOP: Justice for Migrant Workers Toronto, ON Status: *ATTENDING* PAM PALMATER: Indigenous Rights Advocate/Author/Academic (Ryerson University) Toronto, ON Status: *TENTATIVELY ATTENDING; WILL CONFIRM ASAP* BILAN ARTE: Canadian Labour of Congress Ottawa, ON Status: *TENTATIVELY ATTENDING; SEEKING APPROVAL FROM EXECUTIVE* JERRY WOODS: Past Chair, MB Human Rights Commission/Indigenous Labour Rights Activist Winnipeg, MB Status: *NO REPLY* *3. MAKING LABOUR A SOCIAL FORCE & POLITICAL LEADER (BUILDING A WORKING-CLASS ALTERNATIVE)* SUZANNE MacNEIL: President, Halifax-Dartmoth and District Labour Council Halifax, NS Status: *TENTATIVELY ATTENDING; WILL CONFIRM ASAP* BASIA SOKAL: President, Winnipeg Labour Council Winnipeg, MB Status: *ATTENDING* ALIA KARIM: Fight for $15 Movement Toronto, ON Status: *ATTENDING* SCOTT CHRICTON: IBEW 424/Alberta Labour History Institute Board Edmonton, AB Status: *ATTENDING* ++++++++++ This has been a very fruitful appeal, which can be summarized as follows: *ATTENDING: 9* *TENTATIVELY ATTENDING: 3* *NO REPLY: 1* *TOTAL: 13* *It’s my recommendation that we can include all prospective roundtable participant names within the SSHRC application, save for Jerry Woods, who has yet to reply, unfortunately.* To the latter, I will continue to seek out Jerry’s participation this week and moving forward. Alongside, Leslie Spillett would be a great addition to our conference — this, as discussed at the March 3, 2018 meeting of the WGSCC Committee. I will approach her as you all advise. All my best for now! Krishna 204.899.8687 krishna.lalbiharie(a)gmail.com

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