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A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White: Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur - Softcover
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Bill White's account of the bareknuckle days of BC labour sold out its first printing in two days. His stories of the struggle for labour and human rights in the Vancouver shipyards makes harrowing and fascinating reading. Bill White was head of the Boilermakers and Marine Workers Union in the heyday of the West Coast shipbuilding industry during WW II. He personally fought one of the first big right-to-work cases in BC history all the way to the Privy Council in Britain. He is as unrelenting - and colourful - now as he was then in his condemnation of companies and governments who don't treat their workers like human beings.
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About the Author
Howard White was born in 1945 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He was raised in a series of camps and settlements on the BC coast and never got over it. He is still to be found stuck barnacle-like to the shore at Pender Harbour, BC. He started Raincoast Chronicles and Harbour Publishing in the early 1970s and his own books include A Hard Man to Beat (bio), The Men There Were Then (poems), Spilsbury's Coast (bio), The Accidental Airline (bio), Patrick and the Backhoe (childrens'), Writing in the Rain (anthology) and The Sunshine Coast (travel). He was awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History in 1989. In 2000, he completed a ten-year project, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He has been awarded the Order of BC, the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award and a Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria. In 2007, White was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has twice been runner-up in the Whisky Slough Putty Man Triathlon.
Review
"Crude, vulgar, slanted, vindictive and utterly delightful."
--Denny Boyd, Vancouver Sun
"I don't agree with everything in it, but it's a great book by a man who's one of the last of his kind in the province."
--Barry Clark, CKNW Radio
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- PublisherHarbour Publishing
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0889781311
- ISBN 13 9780889781313
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Frontispiece (illustrator). SUBTITLED : ` The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader.Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur'.In the introduction to this 221 page British Columbia labour memoir, the author declares he's from a different branch of the White clan. Read more about : hotliner, Pacific Drydock, Pender Street, Old Jock Dalrymple, Gordon Farrington, Shipyard General Workers Federation, Kuzych Case, Cambie Grounds, S.L.P. C.U. & C., and 1943 Arbitration Act. Section of b/w photographs at center. Cond : Paper wrapper is silver coloured withred lettering and graphics. Volume is square and bright. Minimal wear, Minimal soiling. No names nor marks. Almost collectible Canadian labour biography. Quote (p. 79) : " We had a lot of top-flight professional boxers in the union. One was Eddie Weinstob from Viking, Alberta who was a top heavy-weight - he'd fought Schmeling and others . He was British Empire champ for many years but he didn't ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 012553
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