topic:"Labour and labouring classes" found 165 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18200

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 4 m of textual records and other material

Date: 1908-current

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of 10 series containing the operating records of the Workmen's Circle, its committees, branches, choir and school program. Series I – Committees Series II – Branches Series III – His tory and Organizational Papers Series IV – Publications Series V – Abra…

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 4 m of textual records and other material

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of 10 series containing the operating records of the Workmen's Circle, its committees, branches, choir and school program. Series I – Committees Series II – Branches Series III – His tory and Organizational Papers Series IV – Publications Series V – Abraham Reisen Schools Series VI – Workmen’s Circle Loan Syndicate Series VII – Workmen’s Circle Choir Series VIII – Workmen’s Circle, New York Series IX – Correspondence Series X – Scrapbooks and Artefacts

Date: 1908-current

Storage Location: Bay 6

Creator: Workmen's Circle

Physical Condition: Excellent.

History / Biographical: The Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring) of Montreal (now Worker’s Circle) celebrated its 100th Anniversary in the city in 2007. The organization, which was originally founded in New York in 1892 by mainly Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing Czarist pogroms, conducted itself as an “irretrievable part of the radical labour movement.” An advocate for change, the Workmen’s Circle also provided education, enlightenment, health benefits, open forums, a library, clubs and cemetery plots for its members. The work of the group extended to emergencies such as operating a soup kitchen during the Depression or organizing the Action Committee for Soviet Jewry in the late-1980s and early 1990s to aid immigration. Their involvement in politics saw support for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and candidates such as A.M. Klein, David Lewis and Kalman Kaplansky. In 1940, two Workmen’s Circle members from Branch 151 were elected to the Montreal municipal council, Michael Rubenstein and Albert Eaton. The first Workmen’s Circle building was completed in 1936 after several years of planning and a hold due to the Depression. The building was located at 4848 St. Laurent and served the Workmen’s Circle’s business and social activities as well as one of the schools. Like most other Jewish organizations, the Workmen’s Circle moved from the once-traditionally Jewish Main area and re-located to Isabella closer to the Jewish community campus. The Worker’s Circle is still housed there although the organization is shrinking and serves an aging population.

Language: Yiddish, English, Russian

Acquisition Source: Workmen's Circle of Montreal

Custodial History: Transferred directly from the Workmen's Circle, first date of transfer unknown, accural of new materials in November 2007.

Arrangement: Current arrangement based on an older system of description used by the JPL-A during the 1970s and 1980s. The finding aid was up-dated to RAD standards in March 2008.

Related Material: Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

Name Access: Workmen's Circle, Montreal

Subjects: Workmen's Circle Schools (Montreal, Quebec); Labour and labouring classes; Workmen's Circle - Eugene Debs Branch no. 204; Workmen's Circle - Meyer London Branch no. 151; Workmen's Circle - Moishe Lewis Branch; Workmen's Circle, New York; Workmen's Circle - Vladeck Branch; Workmen's Loan Syndicate (Montreal); Labour movement; Labour unions; Women in the labour movement - Canada; Workmen's Circle - Ladies' Vladeck Branch

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Speeches and Correspondence, Fair employment practices of the State University of New York Construction Fund

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17149

Collection: Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

: 0003

Collection: Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

File No.: 0003

Storage Location: 5-5G

Subjects: Segal, Charles; State University of New York; Buffalo Plan; Labour and labouring classes; Labour unions

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Newspaper clippings - State University of New York

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17172

Collection: Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

: 0026

Scope and Content: Consists of articles related to fair employment practices.

Collection: Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: Consists of articles related to fair employment practices.

File No.: 0026

Storage Location: 5-5G

Subjects: State University of New York; Segal, Charles; Labour and labouring classes

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Labour Committee

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16831

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

: 3; 003

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Series No.: 3

File No.: 003

Storage Location: 6-5A, Ctn. 015

Subjects: Workmen's Circle of Montreal; Labour movement; Labour and labouring classes; Jewish Labor Committee (Canada)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

May First Celebrations

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16845

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

: 3; 017

Collection: Workmen's Circle of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Series No.: 3

File No.: 017

Storage Location: 6-5A, Ctn. 015

Subjects: Workmen's Circle of Montreal; Labour movement; Labour and labouring classes; May Day (Labour Holiday)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn68993

Collection: Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.9 m of textual records

Fonds No.: 1023

Scope and Content: This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the JLC such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Hig…

Collection: Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.9 m of textual records

Scope and Content: This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the JLC such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Highlights of the fonds include correspondence between David Lewis, then secretary of the CCF, his father Moishe Lewis, and Kalman Kaplansky, both labour leaders in Montreal’s Workmen’s Circle and JLC.

Fonds No.: 1023

Storage Location: JPL

History / Biographical: In 1934, leaders in the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Workmen’s Circle, the Jewish Daily Forward Association, the Jewish Socialist Verband and others gathered in New York’s lower east side to form the Jewish Labor Committee. The formation of the JLC was in response to the ever-growing threat of fascism in Europe. The group publicly campaigned to raise awareness of the plight of European Jewry, raised funds for partisan fighters, brought over thousands of political and cultural leaders – both Jews and non-Jews, and immediately after the war assisted in relief efforts and provided support in bringing over refugees. Jewish Labour Committees both in the United States and Canada extended their wartime work in the 1950s by campaigning against discrimination among workers as well as human rights activism on a global scale. In Montreal, the Jewish Labour Committee actively participated in pressuring the government to adopt human rights legislation at the provincial level. In 1947, the Canadian government selected two members of the JLC, Bernard Shane and Maurice Silcoff, to travel to Europe to select skilled immigrants as refugees. Both men were temporarily named colonels of the Canadian army so that they could travel more easily across war ravaged Europe. The task of bringing over skilled garment workers to Canada was no mean feat but the efforts had far reaching implications since workers were then able to bring over family members. The Jewish Labor Committee of Canada Bulletin for 1975, on reporting the death of Bernard Shane, placed the number of families brought to Canada through the work of the JLC at over 2,000.