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EIISat-•usmngheit?-tafiefL‘t-)r-to ild id ■e he in heto ia-ide, iesecure.I crimination,A tremendous out-pouring of trade unionists and other people thronged! the Pender Auditorium to pay their last respects to Malcolm McLeod, president of the Marine Workers Federation, who passed away on December 13 of a heart attack., Over twelve hundred people attended the funeral. Malcolm McLeod was a man loved and respected by .workers in all industries la British Columbia. Ho came to Canada from Scotland in 1928, at once becoming active in the organization Of hts fellow workers. ■ ■ V ■Malcolm was secretary of the Relief Camp Workers Union and at times when there was any money in the treasury, he recelv-jed-417 dk-menthr-out -of which he' also paid tor the Relief Camp workers' paper,Malcolm was also very well mown in the Mine, Mill union aa one of the men to help lay daughter.-hr-fotmiJl Don of . our organiza-rion, well known to’worker# fa Ihe Bridge River ■iliartrlcL Healso worked to help organize lumber workers and fishermen to the days when there were no travelling expenses of salary. He did not confine his activities toI. . • n .the trade union field only, but was an active member of theXjabof-Progrefeslve Party.• '■ /-There are very few people lc the B-C. workers movement ‘who will ever forget the part that men like Malcolm have played to ..the. orgmMzation of the -Vt.d labor.The sympathy of this organization, our officers and members, go to his wife and four-year oldivesuffered a great loss/ one they art? able to fee! with Malcolm's, own family..I* o'tj o a w. o
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Vancouver BC District Union News
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Thu, Jan 20, 1949
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