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Footnote 79

RWDSU Record, 3 (23), December 9, 1956, p. 14. See also RWDSU Record, 2 (5), March 20, 1955, p. 14; 2 (11), June 12, 1955, p. 15; 3 (20), October 28, 1956, p. 15; 5 (1), January 19, 1958, p.…

Footnote 67

RWDSU Record, 16 (7), April 13, 1969, p. 15. See also RWDSU Record, 14 (13), June 25, 1967, p. 14; 14 (20), October 15, 1967, p. 14; 4 (2), October 27, 1957, p. 12; 16 (3), February 9, 1969, p.…

Footnote 63

RWDSU Record, 6 (16), August 30, 1959, p. 15; 9 (6), March 25, 1962, p. 15; 9 (9), May 6, 1962, p. 15; 9 (14), July 15, 1962, p. 15; 9 (22), November 18, 1962, p. 15; 16 (21), 1969,…

Footnote 60

RWDSU Record, 6 (3), February 15, 1959, p. 15; 6 (7), April 12, 1959, p. 15; 6 (23), December 6, 1959, p. 15; 6 (24), December 20, 1959, p. 15; 7 (2), January 31, 1960, p. 15; 7 (5), March…

Footnote 40

RWDSU Record, 2 (22), November 27, 1955, p. 15. The editorial board of the ‘RWDSU Record’ consisted of five men -editor Max Steinbock, managing editor Bernard Stephens, art editor Stanley Glaubach, and assistant editors Roland Willoughby and Robert Dobbs. See…

Footnote 30

Calculated from Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, Canadian District Council. Moncton, New Brunswick, October 29-30, 1979 (mimeo); and from CALURA. The 17 per cent figure is based on 115 of the…

Footnote 28

Letter from George Barlow, Canadian Director of RWDSU to A. E. Hemming, Executive Secretary of the Canadian Labour Congress, 25 Nov., 1971 (George Barlow Papers, National Archives of Canada, MG 28 I 286, Vol. 1, File 1-21); Labour Canada, Directory…

Footnote 27

The most rapid gains made by women among the Canadian membership were during the 1960s when their proportion increased from 26.1 per cent in 1962 to 32.7 per cent in 1969; between 1969 and 1982, women increased only from 32.7…

Footnote 26

RWDSU Constitution, Article VI, Section 6, p. 20; RWDSU Record, 21 (6), June, 1974, p. 2. A constitutional amendment in 1974 provided for the election of the Canadian Director by Canadian delegates to the international conventions. The other Canadian union…

Footnote 22

RWDSU Record, 29 (5), June/July, 1982, p. 12. See also ibid, 26 (12), December, 1979, p. 2. The Service Employees International Union unwittingly pointed to the severe underrepresentation of women in the leadership of the American labor movement when it…