Radical and reform-minded books, pamphlets and other writings in Alberta and Saskatchewan 1915-1929 (part 2) [radical2]
- Tom Monto
- Sep 18
- 19 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
From WWI to the start of the Depression
part 2 of a series of Montopedablogs on radical /reform publications in AB and SK
Publications concerning improvement of the lot of workers, farmers and socialists, as more fully defined in part 1.
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Bank and monetary reform
In this period banking reform is more discussed than previously.
This blog series contains books on bank reform and monetary reform but mostly only those that were published pre-1935.
in Peel's Prairie Bibliography, pre-1935 means no. 1 to no. 5828,
in Weinrich Social Protest A Bibliography it means no. 1 to no. 1689.
After 1934, books on those topics and on the SC government in Alberta are so numerous it would be difficult to include them. (but I do give some)
Calgary Labour MP William Irvine helped the cause of Social Credit when as MP he had Major Douglas, George Bevington and other banking reformers address a House of Commons committee in the early 1920s.
Ten years later, after the Depression hit and as William Aberhart got excited about monetary reform, the UFA avoided committing itself to bank reform.
The CCF did concern itself with bank and monetary reform to some degree, and that shows up in several publications:
Davies, Stanley Socialization of the credit and banking system of Canada. published in Calgary by the CCF, 1934.
Coote; H.E. Spence; Garland; Wm. Irvine
Speeches on the revision of the Bank Act and on the Act to Incorporate the Bank of Canada, delivered in the House of Commons on Thursday, March 1 and Thursday, March 8, 1934 34 (speech transcribed and published in a pamphlet. (Weinrich 1623)
The UFA leaders' refusal to say they would try to work for monetary reform helped lead many UFA supporters to move to Aberhart's SC League, and the 1935 election went in Aberhart's favour.
The UFA lost every seat (a disproportional loss -- the UFA actually deserved to win 7 seats).
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unsorted books, etc.
Farmers Unity League (Weinrich 1395
Workers Unity League (Weinrich 1415, 1416, 1417
PARTRIDGE, E.A. "Partridge of Sintaluta"
William, (Weinrich 1412
Wood, Henry Wise (Weinrich 1174
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Ladies Society. Canadian union meeting, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Ladies Society to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; souvenir, City of Calgary... August [3-8], 1914. (Peel 3986)
Canada. Department of Labour, Board of Conciliation and Investigation. Copy of report of Conciliation and Investigation. (Winnipeg: General Committees of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.)
Results of an investigation into a dispute between the CPR and its employees in Western Canada, plus minority reports of the CPR and Union representative. (Peel3994)
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WWI
Private Peat" (Harold Reginald Peat 1893-1960)
"Private Peat" lost the use of an arm in the fighting. He became penpals with British writer Louisa Watson Small. They married and co-wrote a book on his wartime experiences under title Private Peat. Later they co-wrote The Inexcusable Lie against war and nationalism. It was published by Barse & Hopkins, New York, 1923.
Louisa was also author of Mrs. Private Peat, an account of her wartime experiences as a British woman.
Their lives are chronicled in Wikipedia under "Harold Reginald Peat" and "Louisa Watson Peat".
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x1915
Alberta
United Mineworkers District 18. Report of the twelfth annual convention held at Lethbridge Alberta, Feb. 15, to 23rd 1915. 1915. published at Fernie by District Ledger. Weinrich 588
General
Pearce, William, 1848-1930.
The absurdity and injustice of single tax as carried out in the western provinces of Canada: Respectfully submitted to students of the subject of taxation
Published: 1915 (Internet Archives online?)
Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell
In Western Canada before the war, A study of communities. (London: John Murrary, 1915) 205 pgs.
concerned about growing urbanization, specifically Alix, Alberta and North Battleford, SK.
Saskatchewan
x1916
Edmonton Board of Public Welfare. Mothers' pensions or charitable relief. Which? 1916. Edmonton. Weinrich 593
R. Parm Pettipiece and E.T. Kingsley. The genesis and evolution of slavery. Showing how chattel slaves of pagan times have been transformed into the capitalist property of today. 1916. Vancouver BC Federationist.
(Pettipiece had been the editor of an Edmonton area newspaper in 1890s)
Woodsworth, J.S. and R.C. Henders. Bureau of Social Research, governments of Manitoba, Sask and Alberta. 1916. letter outlining the new Bureau of Social Research.
John Whitnah Leedy
What’s the Matter with Canada?, A discussion of the credit situation in Canada, published in Edmonton in 1916. 38 pages.
(What’s the Matter with Canada?, Peel 4501 has it dated "[1919?]"
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William Irvine arrived at Calgary in 1916
helped start labour activities including the People's Forum, Labour Representation League, Non-Partisan League. (see Cook, The UFA Experiment)
perhaps his labour activities helped lead Calgary to adopt PR for city elections.
William Irvine
Oscar Cole-Arnal, To set the captives free. Liberation theology in Canada. Toronto: Between the lines, 1998. much on William Irvine
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John McDougall (1842-1917), son of George and Elizabeth McDougall, was active in the People's Forum that William Irvine was organizing in Calgary (Claresholm Review-Advertiser, January 29, 1917)
John McDougall (1842-1917) son of George and Elizabeth McDougall
wrote his memoirs in six volumes
Forest, Lake and Prairie Twenty years of frontier life in western Canada, 1842-62
Saddle, Sled and Snowshoe Pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the Sixties
Pathfinding on Plain and Prairie Stirring Scenes of Life in the Canadian North-West
In the days of the Red River Rebellion Life and Adventure in the Far West of Canada (1868-1872)
On Western Trails in the Early Seventies Frontier Pioneer Life in the Canadian North-west
Wa-pee Moos-tooch or "White Buffalo", The Hero of a Hundred Battles. Tale of Life in Canada's Great West During the Early Years of the Last Century.
PLUS
George Millward McDougall The Pioneer, Patriot and Missionary (about the author's father) (1888)
1913 provincial election ran as Liberal in Calgary unsuccessful
ran in Calgary city election?
at time of his death was active in the People's Forum that William Irvine was organizing in Calgary (Claresholm Review-Advertiser, January 29, 1917)
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Saskatchewan
[1916] booklet P.R. and Civic Government by C.J. (Christopher) Yorath.
2000 copies were distributed by Saskatchewan government (Department of Municipal Affairs) to aldermen and officials throughout the province.
(P.R. Record Oct. 1916.
[P.R. and Civic Government not in hathi trust, not in bookfinder, not listed in Peel's Bibliography]
Christopher J. Yorath, born in 1879, came from England in 1913 to become commissioner of Saskatoon. Yorath also acted as city treasurer, managing the city's finances through the turbulent war years. ... resigned in 1921 to become city commissioner for Edmonton, and later moved to Nanaimo, where he died in 1932. Both Yorath Island, south of Saskatoon, and Yorath Avenue in the Avalon area of Saskatoon were named in his honour.
(from Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, which makes no mention of his support for proportional representation, although he was city commissioner in Saskatoon when it adopted PR and also city commissioner in Edmonton when it adopted PR).
x1917
Alberta
Canadian League for Taxation of Land Values. (Our purpose, our method, our explanation, our desire, our ambition, our goal) 1917. Single Tax proposals endorsed by H.W. Wood, Nellie McClung, and others. Weinrich 622
The UFA. The UFA - what it is, what it has done, what it aims to do. 1917 (later edition in 1922) Weinrich 648
"Farmers Platform." https://archive.org/details/P004377
John D. Hunt The Dawn of a New Patriotism (1917) hardcover book
Much on proportional representation
Using the City of Winnipeg, his home before coming to Edmonton in 1915, as an example, he stressed the need for a city-wide multi-member district and fair voting in the new larger district.
As clerk of the legislative council in the Alberta government, he was in position to press for electoral reform and succeeded, with Alberta adopting partial PR in 1924 and the City of Edmonton adopting PR for election of city councillors in 1923.
(The Dawn of a New Patriotism not in Peel's PP, nor in Weinrich)
see Montopedia blog
Edwards, Henrietta Muir (later one of Famous Five)
Legal status of Women of Alberta (Peel's 4302) 1917 (reprinted in 1921)
Saskatchewan
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x1918
Alberta
Edmonton firefighters threatened strike
March 4, 1918 plebiscite among city voters showed most supported the firemen, and council backed down.
In advance of the vote, Mayor H.W.E. Evans published a speech he made against firemen's demands. (Peel's Bibliography 4386) He did not run for re-election in December 1918.
see also Montopedia "Edmonton referendums")
Budden, Alf. The Slave of the Farm – "Being letters from Alf Budden to a fellow farm slave and comrade in revolt" [1918?] Budden was publicist and lecturer for SPC.
(see 1910)
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Stevenson, Jean C. Homesteads for women. 1918. Calgary: UFWA. (Weinrich 692
Saskatchewan
x1919
One Big Union
One Big Union A historical sketch (published in Winnipeg) Peel's PP 4517
The Origin of the One Big Union (published in Winnipeg) Peel's PP 4518
One Big Union Peel's PP 4765
One Big Union Peel's PP 4766
Alberta
Report of the coal mining industry Commission. 1919. Edmonton: J.W. Jeffrey. Weinrich 697
Canadian Council of Agriculture. The Farmers platform c. 1919 Weinrich 711
Canadian Council of Agriculture. A new national policy. 1919 Weinrich 712
Good, W.C. Production and taxation from the farmers' standpoint. 1919. Toronto: J.M. Dent. Weinrich 725
William Charles Good was the author of Farmer Citizen: My Fifty Years in the Canadian Farmers' Movement, published by Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1969.
[resident on the Prairies?]
McKinney, Louise 1919 delivered a speech entitled "The Farmers' Opportunity" at the UFA convention, which was published in pamphlet form by the Non-Partisan League Weinrich 0744
The Origin of the One Big Union: a Verbatim report of the Calgary Conference Weinrich 0764
Reed, John and A.R. Williams. Shall socialism triumph in Russia. 1919. Edmonton SPC. 15 pages. (Edmonton publication of SPC by non-AB authors) (Weinrich 0775)
(John Reed was famous for his book Ten Days that Shook the World)
Socialist Party of Canada A Reply to the Press Lies concerning the Russian Situation. pub. by SPC in Edmonton Weinrich 0785
Thompson, Bram. Canada's Suzerainty over the West. Weinrich 0793
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Trade rules (Peel 2683) (Weinrich 0794
UFA organizational instructions (Weinrich 0795
UFA Objects (Weinrich 796
UFA Resolution re: political action passed by UFA annual convention (Weinrich 797
UFWA Young People's work (Weinrich 798
Western Labour News. Western Convention Report WCLC held at Calgary, March 13-5, 1919 (Weinrich 802)
(OBU founded at this convention, I think)
Wood, Henry Wise. Political Action in Alberta. 1919 (Weinrich 807
x1920
Alberta
Deachman, R.J. Deachman before the Tariff Commission - a destructive criticism of the fallacies of protection. Calgary: The Westerner, 1920. (Weinrich 830)
Irvine, William. The Farmers in Politics. 1920 (Weinrich 830)
(foreword by H.W. Wood) (hardcover book)
Labor church (Weinrich 846)
Labor Church Hymns and Songs (Weinrich 847
UFA Provincial platform and declaration of principles. (Weinrich 881
UFWA Working hints for local unions (Weinrich 883
R.C. Owens (1838-1930s?) (92 years old in 1926 says The UFA Nov. 15, 1926)
Daylight on the money and banking questions and other problems. Edmonton: Western Veteran Publishing Co. 47 pages
Peel's Bibliography identifies this publication as the first thing published on the Prairies that discussed monetary reform (obviously not counting Bramley-Moore's 1914 work on rural credit).
"Old Man Owens" was in his late 70s when this booklet was published.
He was a a radical of long standing -- he recalled speaking at a carpenters' union meeting in Chicago in 1880s on the need for better pay for the dirtiest of jobs done by unskilled workers. And Henry Wise Wood - no spring chicken himself - recognized Owens from his young days as a farmer in the U.S. (Bridge to Liberty, p. 17)
Lived in Edmonton. He helped found the UFA in 1909. Author of several booklets.
(see 1924 and 1926)
Saskatchewan
Non-Partisan League, Grain Growers Saskatoon (Weinrich 857)
Saskatchewan Grain Growers Assoc. (Weinrich 869
Geeson, John. Relations between government and labour movement during the war. UofA Thesis (Weinrich 838
1921?
J.A. Stevenson was a writer for the Council of Agriculture.
J.A.S. (J.A. Stevenson) Proportional representation. (Weinrich 876 (copy available in PAA info folders))
J.A.S. (J.A. Stevenson) Where the farmer touches city labor. (Weinrich 877)
x1921
Alberta
Hunt, John D. Present Electoral System Condemned. Edmonton: UFA, [1921] (Weinrich 730) [author of other books as well]
(also author of the hardcover The Dawn of a New Patriotism and other pieces on PR and STV and electoral reform. see 1924)
John D. Hunt, clerk of the Legislative Council of Alberta
researched Proportional Representation
submitted his report to the Legislature in favour of PR but mostly ignored by Liberal government
UFA published an excerpt from his official report on electoral reform, which was suppressed by the Liberal government.
(no copies apparently exist of his full report)
Liberal government did bend to giving Edmonton more seats and to putting them all together in a city-wide district but adopted Block Voting instead of a fair one person-one vote election system (SNTV or STV).
(see 1917, 1924)
Wood Sears Higinbotham (none in Cand. v. 1.) (Weinrich 1032)
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Bergen, N.J. L. The Farmers union of Canada (1923) (resident of Wetaskiwin)
(see Weinrich)
Edwards, Henrietta Muir (later one of Famous Five)
Legal Status of Women of Alberta (Peel's 4302) 1917 (reprinted in 1921)
Saskatchewan
T.A. Patrick of Yorkton Member of the NWT Legislature 1894-1904
The County System for Saskatchewan [1921?] (Peel's Bibliography)
(T.A. Patrick see 1898, 1905, 1924)
W.C. Paynter of Tantallon, SK, of the British Banking Reform League (see 1895)
Canadian money and progress 1921
(reprinted in 1931 as The Trumpet Call of Canadian money and progress: an ideal handbook of monetary reform.) (Peel's Bibliography 4710) (Weinrich)
(see MacDonald, Alex. Practical Utopians; The Lives and Writings of Saskatchewan Cooperative Pioneers Ed and Will Paynter. published by Canadian Plains Research Center/University of Regina)
(available online at Internet Archives)
x1922
Alberta
UFA Political awakening...
Edwards, Henrietta Legal Status of women… (Weinrich 0913
ILP Declaration of Principles of the Edmonton Branch (Weinrich 0916
ILP ILP's appeal to all labor for support. Edmonton branch of ILP (Weinrich 0917
Parlby Progress or reaction? Ottawa government's attitude towards needs of Canadian people contrasted with the aims and aspirations of the farmers' movement, 1921. (published in Calgary by the UFA). (Weinrich 0929
Raymond, A. Pauline. Gathered Sheaves from the National Council of Women. published in Calgary. (Weinrich 0932
UFA publications (no author identified), much on group government (Weinrich 940-8
UFWA Calgary Rest Centre. (Weinrich 0954
UFA. Method of Organizing for Political Purpose. (Weinrich 0985
Saskatchewan
x1923
N.J.L. Bergen
Bergen, N.J. L. The Farmers union of Canada (1923) (resident of Wetaskiwin)
(Weinrich 0997)
farmers' movements (Weinrich 1024
Canadian Labour Party (CLP) Shall the Bankers or the citizens rule the City of Edmonton? (Weinrich 999)
(Discussion of banking and monetary reform and social credit was not new to many Albertans.
Alberta MP William Irvine (with Manitoba MP J. S. Woodsworth) had successfully pushed for an official inquiry into the subject in the early 1920s to which Edmonton-area self-taught expert George Bevington had presented evidence. (Mardiros, William Irvine, p. 141)
Pamphleteers, such as Edmonton's R.C. Owens and Saskatoon's H.C. Pierce, had prepared the waters. (Pierce, Herbert Chandler, Our money system and what it is doing to us: It is sure doing a plenty. (Peel's Prairie Provinces online)
James East, a long-serving Edmonton city councillor in the 1912-1936 period, had been proponent of monetary reform as well. (Pierce, Our money system (1925); Rek, Municipal elections in Edmonton, p. 88)
E.T. Love
Oleomargarine and its Relation to Canadian Economics -- Shall We Foster a United States Industry or Shall We Foster one of our own National industries -- the Dairy Industry. Edmonton?: Alberta Dairymen's Association, March 1923. Pamphlet.
(not seen but cited in W.H. Heick, A Propensity to Protect -- Butter, Margarine and the Rise of Urban Culture in Canada. Wilfred Laurier University Press)
E.T. Love was secretary of the Alberta Dairymen's Association and manager of Woodland Dairy, Edmonton.
SINGLE TAX
Published: 1923
(internet archives online)
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association 1923 (Weinrich)
x1924
Alberta
Bolton, E.A. The Dawn of freedom for farm slaves (1924)
(Weinrich 1042) (not on hathi trust website)
Ernie Bolton was prime mover in the 1920s-era "Economic and Educative Committee of the Farmers Union of Canada" (see Monod, Agrarian Struggle, p. 101)
Owens, R.C. ("Old Man Owens") People's Financial Catechism (Weinrich 1072 )
(author of other books as well -- see 1920)
Owens' book was distributed by Charles E. Burford "book agent" "specializing in Financial, Government Ownership and Co-operative books" 12821 Fort Trail, Edmonton, Burford himself was author of pamphlets My Confession of Faith; Power Question; Our Daily Bread; Panic or Picnic; and Douglasism versus socialism.
Burford's booklet My Confession of Faith has a section on the socialization of land. (A copy of it is in the Sophia Dixon papers at U of Saskatchewan Archives, I have been told) (land reform)
Burford was president of the Public Ownership League in 1930.
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Farmilo, Alfred. Oleomargarine and the Physical Deterioration of the Working People. A Plea for the Health of the Child of the Nation (Edmonton: no publisher, 1924)
(not seen but cited in W.H. Heick, A Propensity to Protect -- Butter, Margarine and the Rise of Urban Culture in Canada. Wilfred Laurier University Press)
Alfred. Farmilo was president of the Edmonton Trades and Labour Council.
(Farmilo's statements in the booklet echo the position of the Alberta Dairymen's Association previously expressed by E.T. Love in 1923, and the position of Calgary MP William Irvine who saw margarine as a second-class food.)
may not be AB/SK
1924 Social credit / by Major C. H. Douglas ... Published 1924 Author Douglas, C. H. (Clifford Hugh), 1879-1952. (hathi trust online)
The solution of unemployment; or, The postulates and implications of the social credit theorem of Major C. H. Douglas, by W. H. Wakinshaw.
Published 1924 (hathi trust online)
Author Wakinshaw, William Holmes.
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Saskatchewan
T.A. Patrick Our Senate Problem and its Solution [1924?] (Provincial Archives of Alberta holdings, politics info folder).
(T.A. Patrick see 1898, 1905, 1921)
x1925
Alberta
Unemployed Association of Alberta Report of conference between ... (1925) (Weinrich 1123)
???
Calgary by the UFA (mainly concerns Irvine's record). (Weinrich 1126
Wood UFA President's Address. (Weinrich 1129
Coote 25 delivered "Speech on Customs tariff on automobiles and motor trucks delivered in the House of Commons, 16 March, 1925," later published in pamphlet form. (Weinrich 1099)
Harding, Cyril (not in Cand. v.1.) and H.M. Bartholomew co-authors)
The Grain Commission Exposed, published in Saskatoon by The Furrow. (Weinrich 1108)
Unemployed Association of Alberta. Report of Conference between… pub. in Calgary (Weinrich 1123)
UFA Declaration of principles; Some Facts. no authors identified (Weinrich 1124-5
UFA. The Tariff Issue and East Calgary: why the UFA is in Politics, published in 1925 in
Alberta and Saskatchewan
C.R. Fay (Charles Ryle Fay) Co-operation at home and abroad, A description and analysis ... agricultural co-operation in the Canadian West. London: P.S. King & Son,
(copy at the PAA Library, I think) (Peel's PP 4991)
Fay, C.R. Agricultural Co-operation in the Canadian west. (Weinrich 1104)
(in PAA library)
Saskatchewan
Pierce, Herbert Chandler (1869-1940) of Saskatoon
Our money system and what it is doing to us: It is sure doing a plenty: The remedy and how to apply it, inject gently to prevent shock (1925)
(He gives credit to James East, George Bevington and W.C. Paynter for doing good work in the cause of banking and monetary reform, exposing the power of the banks.) (monetary reform)
Pierce, Herbert Chandler, 1869-1940.
Born in Wisconsin; part of education received in Portage la Prairie; settled at Wadena where secretary-treasurer of H.C. Pierce Land Co.; Saskatchewan MLA, 1908-1916.
(Canadian parliamentary guide, 1908-1915; Who's who in Western Canada ).
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Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association 1923 (Weinrich)
E.A. Partridge "Partridge of Sintaluta"
he lived near Sintaluta, Saskatchewan.
A War on Poverty -- The One War that Can End War. (1925) (Weinrich)
(see Montopedia blog on him) (utopian literature)
may not be AB/SK
Real wealth and financial poverty : a study of the present financial system as a monopoly of money, and its relation to productive industry, social poverty, and economic war,...
Published 1925 (hathi trust online) (Weinrich
Author Adams, William, 1893-
x1926
Alberta
Brownlee, J.E. Five Years of Progress. published in Calgary by the UFA. Weinrich 1134 (PAA holdings)
Canadian Labour Party
CLP Over the Top! broadside published in Edmonton 1926. Weinrich 1139
Clarke, Joe. Something to Think over! When the 1920 increases were given, Joe Clarke was not an officially nominated labor mayor - just a human being. Vote for Joe Clarke - the square dealer. [1926 campaign broadside: Something to Think Over!], published in Edmonton by "members of organized labor." (Weinrich 1143)
Coote, G.G. 1926 author of The Issues in the coming election, published in Calgary by the UFA, and Speech on Proposed Tariff Reductions on Automobiles and Motor Trucks, Delivered in the House of Commons, published in pamphlet form. Weinrich 1146-7
Labor News Stand, Edmonton. Price list Weinrich 1155
R.C. Owens ("Old Man Owens") The Bridge to Liberty - a plan to evolve from a capitalist system to a co-operative system. (Weinrich 1166) (Internet Archives online)
page 4: "this work is for the purpose of showing the wealth producers of every country how to proceed in order to establish a true and lasting co-operative system of society by and through the ballot."
syndicalist or "group government": "It is essentially necessary for the wealth producers of every country to be organized industrially, with each industry electing delegates to a central body similar to our trades and labor councils, just to correlate and regulate the interests of each to all, so that central councils, with a few joint committees, will be about all the government necessary. What a contrast to the numerous, cumbersome, expensive governments of capitalism!
"...in order to accomplish this, they [wealth producers] must take possession of all governments and abolish all laws by which the few are enabled to accumulate, possess and enjoy the wealth produced by the many, for this is all accomplished by and through the ownership and operations of governments,
...the mortgage companies are principally owned by the same men who own the banks, who purposely make money so scarce that their friends and partners in factories, mills, mines, railroads, and all the other corporate and big business enterprises can hire labor cheap on account of so much unemployment, also purchase the farmers’ products at less than cost of production;...
I hope the plan outlined in this little work may be the means of starting the people to establish a just, equitable, reasonable, commonsense, yes, and Christian system of society, instead of the chaos now in existence all over this planet."
(see 1920) (see Weinrich 1072)
Wood UFA President's Address, 1926 (Weinrich 1174
George Stirling
Stirling, Geo. F. (Saskatoon) 1926 (Weinrich 1404 (see Weinrich 1171)
Saskatchewan
Bennett, Annie D. The local council of women of Regina 1926 (Weinrich 1132
Stirling, Geo. F. (George Stirling) (Saskatoon) 1926 (Weinrich 1171) see Weinrich 1404
x1927
Alberta
Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers 1927 (Weinrich
Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers. The Wheat Pool. (Weinrich 1177
Can. Farmers Educational League Manifesto 1927 (Weinrich
Sun Yat Sen Calgary 1927 (Weinrich
Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers. Alberta Wheat Pool rally. Calgary: Dept. of Education, Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers, 1927. 46 pages. (The rally was held in Calgary on June 7, 1927.) (Peel 5128
Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers. The Alberta Pool and the grain trade (Peel 5127
Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers. Wheat Pool lectures... (Peel 5129
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Campbell, A.C.
Public Ownership of natural resources the present great opportunity of the Prairie Provinces [1927] (Peel's PP)
(PPP has no info on this author, perhaps of Edmonton)
McPhail in AB, Education for the new social order. (written version of her delivered speech "Education for the new social order.") (Weinrich 1193
MWUC Constitution, district no.1 pub. in Calgary. 1194
Roper 1927 author of Personal Stuff and Christmas Greetings. (Weinrich ) Weinrich 1205
Chinese pamphlet in Alberta (Chinese National League) Weinrich 1210
UFA You see more from the bleachers than from the diamond. no author identified (Weinrich 1213
Wood Annual Presidential Address, 1927. (Weinrich 1222
Saskatchewan
history note: history of Saskatchewan Farmers movement:
The Territorial Grain Growers' Association was organized in Indian Head in 1901. In 1905, the group was renamed the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association (SGGA). In 1921, a more radical farmers' organization called the Farmers' Union of Canada was established in Ituna (Saskatchewan?).
At a joint meeting in 1926, the SGGA and the Farmers' Union of Canada amalgamated into the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan Section)
(info from Regina Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, October 2025)
1927 United Farmers of Canada Agricultural land policy. Saskatoon (Weinrich 1214)
(no earlier UFC publication found) (UFC see 1928)
UFC Sask (Weinrich 1215)
x1928
Alberta
Alberta Cooperative Wheat Producers Ltd. Pooling Alberta's Wheat. (Weinrich 1223
(title reused in book by Davison?)
AFL Constitution. (Weinrich 1224
Canadian Labour Party. Fifth Convention, Alberta Section. (Weinrich 1229
UFA
Wood Annual Presidential Address. (Weinrich 1252
Lloydminster Farmers Economic Group. (Weinrich 1277
Saskatchewan
Society of Named Doukhobors 1928 Saskatchewan (Weinrich 1247)
1928 United Farmers of Canada Saskatoon (Weinrich 1251)
1928 United Farmers of Canada Regina (Weinrich 1250)
United Farmers of Canada, SK section. Do you know this? (Peel 5116
Manitoba
John Thomas Hull
Co-operative Education A paper read at the International Pool Conference, Regina, June, 1928 and, What to read on co-operation (1928)
(John T. Hull see Memorable Manitobans online
father of sci-fi author E. Mayne Hull, who was wife of A.E. van Vogt.)
(see 1929, 1930, 1937, 1939)
x1929
Alberta
Irvine, William. Co-operative Government. Ottawa: Mutual Press, 1929. (foreword by H.W. Wood) 246 pgs. (Weinrich 1271)
General
Lloydminster Farmers Economic Group. Manifesto. Lloydminster 2 pgs. (Weinrich 1277)
Patton, Harald. Co-operative Achievements of Canadian grain growers. Winnipeg: Canadian Wheat Pool. (Weinrich 1283)
Saskatchewan
Crew, F.A.E. Our changing civilization whither and how? Regina: Saskatchewan Co-operative Wheat Producers Ltd. 8 pgs. (Weinrich 1262)
Hull, John T. (see 1928)
The history of co-operation. SK: University of SK, 20 pgs. (Weinrich 1266) (see
The history of co-operation also covered in Hull's 1930 book.)
Hull, John T. (see 1928)
Reform movements and ideas. Saskatoon: UFC. 22 pgs. (Weinrich 1267)
Hull, John T. (see 1928)
What to read on co-operation. Saskatoon: UFC. 10 pgs. (Weinrich 1268) (excerpt from 1928 publication?]
(John T. Hull see 1928, 1930, 1937, 1939)
Jamieson, Laura Co-operation and world peace. Saskatoon: UFC. 8 pgs. (Weinrich 1272)
Johnston, Pearl. Education for peace. Saskatoon: UFC. (Weinrich 1273)
Macphail, A.J. Not unto himself alone - an address... Regina: Saskatchewan Co-op Wheat Farmers. (Weinrich 1279)
Roberge, Hector L. (compiler) Some views expressed on the political party system. North Battleford 4 pgs. Writings on the weaknesses and failures of the party system. (Weinrich 1284)
Robertson, George (Weinrich 1285
Saskatchewan Co-operative Wheat Producers. Open market crashed under pressure - pools unafected by demoralization.. (Weinrich 1286
Sharrard Co-operation in nature. (Weinrich 1287
Swanson Our economic system (Weinrich 1288
UFC The proposed gas franchise (Weinrich 1290
UFC Summary of resolutions which were passed by the various district conventions, 1929 (Weinrich 1291
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Manitoba
John T. Hull
What to Read on Co-operation (1929),
Reform Movements and Ideas (1929) an outline history of radical social movements from Roman times, through Levellers, Diggers, Peasants' revolts, to the French Revolution.
(see 1928)
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Crang [this pamphlet may be of help in her bio., although not by her ] (Weinrich 3234
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Periodicals
AFL Reports of Annual Conventions
CCF, in Alberta Reports of Annual Conventions
Bond of Brotherhood newspaper 1903 Alfred Palmer, James Worsley
Calgary Strike Bulletin 1919 Edmonton Free Press Henry J. Roche Roper
Edmonton Strike Bulletin 1919
OBU Bulletin pub. in Edmonton 1919
Searchlight pub. in Edmonton 1919-20
19?-37? editor of Ukrainski Robitnychi Visti (Ukrainian Labor News) published in Winnipeg by the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council. (Weinrich )
Western Miner 30-31 pub. in Lethbridge Miners Section , WUL
WUL Western Miner 30-31 pub. in Lethbridge Miners Section, WUL
Unemployed Bulletin, 31-32? Calgary. National Unemployed Workers Association.
CCF Calgary Home News
CCF Percy Hill
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1915-1934
Peel's Bibliography 4093-5828
Weinrich 573-1689
unsorted
AB plan of co-operating Peel 4721
Weinrich:
MWUC (Weinrich 1194
William Irvine of Calgary
minister newspaper man, MP
Mardiros biography William Irvine
Non-Partisan League see Peel's PP 4516, 4336
Louise McKinney (see Peel's PP)
(Peel's PP subject headings
socialism
3650
3822
4312
4476
5090
5532
5605
Social Credit pre-1935
Peel 4922 Irvine Purchasing power and the world problem - Social control of credit. [1924?] (Peel PP, no. 4922)
5425 Economic Safety League. Statements of reasons for opposing SC [1930?] [likely 1935 or later]
5597 Aberhart Study group features 1932-1933 (titles of units given in PPP)
5659
5660
5709
5748
5749
5812
social justice
5744 Woodsworth of Winnipeg
A Plea for social justice
social conditions
3159
3431
3500
3589
4051
4089
4142
5791
5792
finance
5093
5451
money
4623
4710
4945
5022
5026
5420
5425
5859
communism 4696 5742 5860
lots in (Peel's PP) on farmers
UFA political party
on Riel Rebellion
women in politics
Edmonton
John Russel Love in reply to criticism [of UFA government ?] [1930] (Peel's PP
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Some sources of information used to compile the list above
Dave Monod, The Agrarian Struggle - Rural Communism in Alberta and Saskatchewan 1926-1935
Weinrich Social Protest
Peel's Prairie Provinces Bibliography (3rd edition book form)
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