I vote yes to both. (also can you send me more detailed info on both Adrie and Siemiatycki at Ryerson for potential budgeting)

Yes to both, I vote. 

Yes to a young workers panel. I agree the Adrie that it’s important – vital, in fact. Yes to accepting late proposals.

julie

 

From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of James Naylor
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 3:19 PM
To: 1919-conference@lists.umanitoba.ca
Subject: [1919-Conference] Responses to Proposals

 

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@BrandonU.ca

people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/

 

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