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Dan Daniels Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45264

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1.26m of textual records

Fonds No.: 1285

Scope and Content: Consists of typescripts of Daniels' works, including essays, short stories, plays and scripts.

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1.26m of textual records

Scope and Content: Consists of typescripts of Daniels' works, including essays, short stories, plays and scripts.

Fonds No.: 1285

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Dan Daniels

History / Biographical: Born in Montreal, ca1921, Dan Daniels began writing at thirteen and became a social activist at seventeen. Daniels also developed a career as a storyteller beginning in 1972. In 1938 Daniels joined the Communist party and remained an active member until 1955. Under the party Daniels worked as a trade union organizer with warehouse workers, in the textile industry, aircraft industry, glass workers and with seamen. Daniels worked on Canadian merchant ships and was later an organizer for the group. According to his biography in "Paranoia and Dirty Feet", published by White Dwarf Editions in 1995, during his work with the merchant seamen he was, "thrown off one freighter after being accused of mutiny (of which he admits he was technically guilty: he refused to obey an officer's order) and was arrested eleven times during the seamen's strikes of 1946, 1948, and 1949. Daniels left the Communist Party in 1955, at which point many Canadian members also did, because he felt the Soviet regime was oppressive and no longer serving the working class. When the Canadian Labour Party did not split from Soviet influence, Daniels left the party. In addition to his trade union work, Daniels was instrumental in numerous other organizations and social movements, including: Fair Play for Cuba Committee in Montreal (which helped to found), resistance efforts against the Vietnam war, the non-Communist peace movement, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He was also one of the leaders of Operation St-Jean-Baptiste, a group devoted to removing the nuclear missiles held in La Macaza, Quebec. Daniels had stories, essays and articles published in periodicals and journals in Canada, the United States, England, Australia and Mexico. He had plays produced for the stage in Canada and the United States and had works broadcast on radio and television. Daniels created his persona, "Dan the Storyman" to bring storytelling to elementary school classrooms in primary schools for both the Protestant and Catholic schools boards of Montreal. He was a founding member of both the Playwrights' Workshop of Montreal and the Playwrights Circle of Montreal. Daniels wrote three novels; one written at thirteen, which was destroyed by the author, a second novel was confiscated by the Quebec Provincial Police during the Padlock Law days and a third entitled, "Waiting to be Buried". None of the novels were published. During the 1960s, Daniels worked as an educator in Tanguay women's prison under the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. He also received a master's degree in Environmental Studies from York University and later taught at College Marie-Victorin.

Language: English

Custodial History: Transferred to JPL-A by Daniels' wife.

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Writing - Fiction; Writing.; Writers.; Communist Party of Canada; Labour and labouring classes; Labour; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Trade unions

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Stories, Essays

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45267

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285; 00003

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285

File No.: 00003

Storage Location: Ctn.001; 2-3A

Creator: Dan Daniels

Language: English

Notes: File includes a bibliography of published and performed works as well as published sotires.

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Writing - Fiction; Writing.; Writers.; Communist Party of Canada; Labour and labouring classes; Labour; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Trade unions

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Stories, Essays

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45268

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285; 00004

Collection: Dan Daniels Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file textual records

Fonds No.: 1285

File No.: 00004

Storage Location: Ctn.001; 2-3A

Creator: Dan Daniels

Language: English

Notes: File includes essays and articles.

Subjects: Plays; Playwriting; Writing - Fiction; Writing.; Writers.; Communist Party of Canada; Labour and labouring classes; Labour; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Trade unions

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.