JOURNAL ARTICLE

SMELTER WARS: A new history documents the wartime battle to build a union in Trail.

  • Published In: British Columbia History, 2023, v. 56, n. 1. P. 15 1 of 3

  • Database: America: History and Life with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Verzuh, Ron 3 of 3

Abstract

By the time the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), founded in 1935, hired a young organizer named Arthur "Slim" Evans to organize a union in Trail, radicalism had been somewhat tamed. Trail, British Columbia, home of one of the world's largest lead and zinc smelters, was the location of a historic union-organizing drive by a small band of determined trade unionists during the Second World War. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:British Columbia History. 2023/03, Vol. 56, Issue 1, p15
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1710-7881
  • Accession Number:162310994
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