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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1957 Through November/December1958, British Columbia British Columbia Telephone Company 1958
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Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955(photos); New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man (Clifford Sherlock) treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman (Karsh photo); Cyrus H. McLean now President (photo); B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7,000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center, inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom- and fore-edges of text. Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee off the company. First Edition Half Leather 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955(photos); New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man (Clifford Sherlock) treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman (Karsh photo); Cyrus H. McLean now President (photo); B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7,000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center, inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter;Canadian History]

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Correspondents of The Times: The Times History of the War - Part 46, Vol. 4, July 6, 1915 - Women's Work in the War, London The Times 1915
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Numerous black and white photographs. Part 46 of a series "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter LXXI - Women's Work in the War (1). Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Stapled 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: The Times History of the War - Part 46, Vol. 4, July 6, 1915 - Women's Work in the War Her Majesty Queen Mary Women's Work in the War 1]

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Arnot, R. Page (foreword by W. Ernest Jones; E. Jones; Will Paynter): THE MINERS - In Crisis and War - A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards, London George Allen and Unwin 1961
Very Good A. Mendoza;

451 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and small chips around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. Colour frontis painting of Robert Smillie - President - Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1912 - 1921 - by A. Mendoza. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: ONE: WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS: Foul Weather; The Owners of the Coal Mines; Crisis and Unemployment; Fallen on Evil Days; M.F.G.B. Ends the Spread-over; To Amend the Minimum Wage Act; Dialectics at Downing Street; Arthur Henderson Gets a Joint Committee; Discussions with the Owners; The Coal Mines Bill; Annual Conference July 20 - 24 1931; The Miners and Unemployment; and Appendix: Labour Party Election Manifesto. TWO: THE DEBACLE: The Gathering Storm; The Financial Crisis; The Dilemma - and its Outcome; The General Election of 1931; New Officers; Hours but not Wages; The Coal Mines Act 1932; Retrospect and Outlook in Mid-summer; Reorganisation; and Appendix: General Election 1931: Results of the Voting in Mining Areas. THREE: UNDER THE COALITION GOVERNMENT: A Long Correspondence; Hunger Marches; Ebby Edward's Programmatic Speech; Correspondence with Ramsay MacDonald; Time-honoured Tactics; A Lively Conference; Rueful Conclusions; Gresford Colliery Disaster; Reports and Debate in Commons; The Prosecutions; Royal Commission on Safety; and Appendix: Principal Colliery Disasters 1914 - 1942. FOUR: THE WAGES CAMPAIGN: Before the Campaign; The Campaign; Action to Enforce Our Demand; The Commencement of Negotiations; The General Election; The Strike Ballot and its Result; Meetings with the Owners; Higher Prices for Coal; The Final Phase; Scarborough Annual Conference 1936; The Wages Problem 1936 - 1939; and Appendices: General Election 1935: Results of the Voting in Mining Areas; M.F.G.B. Statement to the Press - December 9 1935; Statement by the Government - December 19, 1935. FIVE: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST COMPANY UNIONS: The Fascist Danger; The Struggle Against Spencerism; Past History of the Nottinghamshire Dispute; The Dispute at Harworth Colliery; Special Conference of January 20 1937; High-handed Action by the Police; The Delegates insist on a Ballot; Breaches of the Peace at Harworth; Repugnance to Fusion; Baldwin's Swan Song; Negotiations for Fusion; Harsh Prison Sentences; and Appendix: Terms for the Amalgamation in Nottinghamshire - May 26 1937. SIX: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM AND WAR: The Asturias Miners of Spain; Fascism and Spain; The International Brigade; Non-intervention; Non-intervention Denounced; Extraordinary Measures Demanded; The Resolution of the Special Conference; At the Miners' International; Spain and Ourselves; The Orphans of the Spanish Miners; The Miners Support China; Munich; Swansea Annual Conference July 3 1939; and Appendix: List of Resolutions Passed at the Swansea Annual Conference 1939. SEVEN: THIRTY MONTHS OF WAR: The First Effects of the War; A Cost of Living Formula; Output and Man-power; Blackpool Annual Conference 1940; The Growth of the Coal Crisis; M.F.G.B. Plans for the Coal Crisis; Compulsion over Mine-workers; The Attendance Bonus; Climacteric of the War; Nationalisation and/or Control; Non-Unionism; and Appendix: War Additions Agreement March 1940. EIGHT: THE GREENE BOARD: Set-backs at Home and Abroad; The White Paper of June 1942; A Wages Demand; The Award of June 18 1942; The Dual Control of the Industry; The Organisation of the Mining Unions; The Second Front - and India; Further Work of the Greene Board; Fifty Years of Conciliation; and Appendix: Appointment of Board of Investigation. NINE: THE DILEMMA OF DUAL CONTROL: The First Award - Boys' Wages; The Fall in Man-power and Output; Difficulties of Dual Control; A Critical Debate in Parliament; The Porter Award; The Four-year Agreement of April 1944; and Appendices: Heads of Agreement between the Mining Association of Great Britain and the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain; National Reference Tribunal Awards. TEN: A SINGLE UNION: The Reorganisation of Sub-Committee Work; The Executive's 1943 Report; At the 1943 Annual Conference; Unavoidable Postponements; The Objects of the Union; The Rules: Membership; How Much Money; and The Ballot Vote; followed by General Appendices: Note on Absenteeism; Table of Membership; Executive Committee Members M.F.G.B 1931 - 1944; with a bibliography and an index. Scans are available for all books. First Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

[SW: miner miners; mining industry; world war 2 ii two second 2nd; miners federation; union; economic crisis; unemployment; ramsay macdonald; labour party government; coal; trade unions; coal industry nationalism act; spanish civil war; underground; modern first; collectible;]

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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 258, July 29, 1919 *British Auxiliaries - War Volunteers and Special Constables* London The Times 1919
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Great black and white photos. Topics include: The Old Regiments; Early Difficulties; The Brassard; Unsettled Conditions; "Special Units"; The Honourable Artillery Company; The London Scottish; A Striking Object Lesson; The Natural Reserve and Royal Defence Corps; Serious Effort; Trench Digging; A Great Turning Point; The Four Classifications; Defaulters; A Remarkable Incident; Camp Life; The National Guard; The Volunteer Training Corps; Volunteer Officers and Cadet Units; Ambulances and Hospitals; The Artists' Rifles; Statioln Work and Motorcyclists; Special Recognition. Average wear. Staples rusty. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Stapled 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 258, July 29, 1919 *British Auxiliaries* War Volunteers Special Constables The Old Regiments; Early Difficulties; The Brassard; Unsettled Conditions; "Special Units"; The Honourable Artillery Company; The London Scottish; A Striking Object Lesson; The Natural Reserve and Royal Defence Corps; Serious Effort; Trench Digging; A Great Turning Point; The Four Classifications; Defaulters; A Remarkable Incident; Camp Life; The National Guard; The Volunteer Training Corps; Volunteer Officers and Cadet Units; Ambulances and Hospitals; The Artists' Rifles; Statioln Work and Motorcyclists; Special Recognition Military]

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