id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_e3tyjnbveza3thybw3s7a7w7gu John Herd Thompson Workers, Growers and Monopolists: The "Labour Problem" in the Alberta Beet Sugar Industry during the 1930s 1978 22 .pdf application/pdf 10332 732 68 farmers hired workers to thin, cultivate and harvest beets planted on small work on a prairie farm, beet workers formed a radical industrial union during the Beet Workers' Industrial Union were a phenomenon for Western Canada, Sugar Companies, was responsible for providing workers to their growers at a the Growers' Association to obtain government help to establish a competitive beet sugar factory in Southern Alberta. whom his work was aimed, and as wage labourers, beet workers were industry in Alberta as a "sugar swindle" in which farmers, beet workers and actively worked to divide grower and beet worker to enable itself to emerge with a labour union, but it also reflected the work of the sugar company to . .between beet growers and labourers. « B.W.I.U. Circular, "To All Sugar Beet Growers", BSP, f.4. 8 3 Officers and directors of Alberta Cooperative Sugar Beet Growers were without ./cache/work_e3tyjnbveza3thybw3s7a7w7gu.pdf ./txt/work_e3tyjnbveza3thybw3s7a7w7gu.txt