Interview of Frank Collins and Roy Williams by Stanley Grizzle.

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Interview of Frank Collins and Roy Williams by Stanley Grizzle.

There are interviews with two individuals in this recording. Frank Collins begins by recounting the history of the drive to create the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the role he played as one of the main union organizers in Vancouver. He speaks about the CPR demerit system used to reprimand porters, and the struggle to be respected on the job before and after the founding of the union, noting how the BSCP created cohesion among Black communities across Canada and led to the founding of other national Black organizations. Roy Williams [Second sound file, begins at 00:12:35] discusses his family’s immigration from Waco, Texas, to Battleford, Saskatchewan in 1911 and then turns to his employment as a porter by the Canadian Pacific Railway. He speaks about the Porters’ Welfare Committee, which was a company body that insufficiently responded to porters’ needs prior to the establishment of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the union that Williams helped to establish in Calgary. He then proceeds to outline what were conditions were like prior to and after unionization, noting the long hours and insufficient pay, alongside racism.

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Record Creation Date: 2024-06-14

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