Item AAAB0102 - Perry Hilton interview

CALL NUMBER: T0099:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - king and country RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-25 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses his early childhood in England; educational opportunities; family life; influence of father; loss of religion; stupidity of WWI; bakery apprenticeship; farm work; preparing for emigration; reasons for choosing Canada; first impressions; farm work in Saskatchewan. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - the real Canadians RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-25 and 28 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses farming in Saskatchewan; Prince Albert; travelling across the prairies working for different farmers; harvesting; tending horses; homesteading with brothers; north to Edmonton; to Vancouver in the spring of 1924; lumber camps; fall of 1924; back to the prairies; first of two bakeries; trips to England; comparison of Prince Albert and Cutknife, Saskatchewan; people and conditions. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - co-operation and confrontation RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-28 and 29 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses bakery operation in Cutknife, Saskatchewan to 1928; idea for a co-op; trips to England; move to Australia; strikes in Australia; differences between Australian and other workers; successes in organizations; tactics in Australia; 1928-1930; getting "leaded" and leaving Australia. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - paternalism rebuked RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-31 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the Depression in Canada's west; the effects of the Depression on the people of the prairies; the beginnings of camp organization (unemployed camps) in B.C.; leaders; conditions; tactics; incidents; responses; camp to camp around B.C.; 1930-1935; blacklist from camps; work attempts; riding the rails; unemployed strikes for better conditions; confrontation in Vancouver; McGeer vs. unemployed; police against the unemployed; the continuing organization; etc. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - unemployed on the loose RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-01 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses organizing B.C. camps; changing names for camps; incidents; conditions; action co-ordination between camp organizers; the role of the Communist party and the C.C.F.; preparing for the On-to-Ottawa Trek; organization and plans; move to Vancouver; the story of the Vancouver strikes, incidents, leaders, attitudes of police, unemployed and citizens. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - On-To-Ottawa RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-07 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the On-to-Ottawa Trek from Vancouver to Regina; organization; events; activities of the food detail; problems; successes; Regina riot; attitude of the people and the police day by day; Regina; events of the riot; government response; return to B.C. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - Prince Rupert organization RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-08 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the return from the Ottawa Trek; organizing tasks assigned by the Communist Party; the interior, Prince George to Prince Rupert; organizing methods, problems, results; setting up a framework for self-perpetuating leadership; anecdotes; resistance; success; departure from Prince Rupert against orders; return to Vancouver. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - feeding the internationals RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-11 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses life in Vancouver; forced holiday; out to camp at Tree Valley; conditions, etc; blacklist relief; disastrous farm work attempts; organizing Fraser Mills; the call for Spanish War; volunteers off to Spain; trip and arrival; story of the war in Spain. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - the war years in Spain RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-13 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton continues his description of the Spanish Civil War; financing training; morale; role of the Communist Party; capture by the Fascists; conditions in prison camps; activities etc; release and repatriation; specific battles; personalities; horrors of capture and imprisonment. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - old struggles, new patterns RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-15 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the period from the end of the Spanish Civil War to his retirement in the 1960s. Feelings after Spain; the coming of the Second World War; logging in the interval; joining up; difficulties due to the Spanish War background; service in England; struggle for housing on return to Vancouver in 1945; hand logging from the mid-1940s to retirement -- methods, places, problems, etc.