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Author Stanton, John, 1914-

Title My past is now : further memoirs of a labour lawyer / John Stanton
Published St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History, [1994]
©1994
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : illustrations
Contents My Early Life -- A Political Education Begins -- Changing Times in Canada -- The Coe Case (1940), The McKean Case (1941) -- A Case of Criminal Libel -- Danny and the Man from Headless Valley -- An American Aggressor -- The Sell-Out of Mine-Mill -- Again the Family -- Rights and Freedoms
Summary "In this further volume of autobiography, BC labour and human rights lawyer John Stanton returns to his career in the law. After reviewing his childhood, education, and early political experiences in Vancouver, during the Depression years, he discusses some of his most important cases. These include: the defence of Fergus McKean, a BC communist leader who was interned during World War II; an exceptional criminal libel suit prosecution in Cold War BC; and an account of his relations with the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers. A must for all interested in labour and the Left in Canada"--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Stanton, John, 1914-
Labor laws and legislation -- British Columbia -- History.
Lawyers -- British Columbia -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biography.
History.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Canadian Committee on Labour History.