Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Preface 

Introduction: A Smelter City is Born

1. A Red Union Comes to Town
2. Battling Blaylock’s Company Union
3. Women War Workers and Ladies Auxiliary Politics
4. Mine-Mill Courts Trail’s Immigrant Enclave
5. A Clash of Ideologies in the Kootenays
6. Steel Cold Warriors Raid Trail’s Red Union
7. Resisting Canadian McCarthyism in British Columbia

Conclusion: The Complicated History of Local 480

Epilogue: The Smelter City Today

Notes
Sources

About the Author

Ron Verzuh is a writer and historian. His previous books include Radical Rag: The Pioneer Labour Press in Canada and Underground Times: Canada’s Flower-Child Revolutionaries.

Reviews

"Smelter Wars tells a fascinating tale of rebellious trade union resistance and activism in wartime Trail. This book is a riveting account of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Local 480’s) struggle against the powerful Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada." (CUPE Communities) "Smelter Wars was both a very informative book as well as a most enjoyable read. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in labour history, indeed, to anyone interested in BC history." - Ken Novakowski (BC Labour Heritage Centre Newsletter) "As a former CUPE national communications director, Verzuh has synthesized an astonishing amount of detail, prompting one reader to say, ‘it’s not often a history like this is a page-turner, but this one definitely is.’" - Sheri Regnier (Trail Times) "Highly detailed and requiring close concentration, Smelter Wars impresses with its depth of research." - Robert D. Parmet, York College, The City University of New York (New York Labor History Association) "Smelter Wars is the story of the era. The book is wonderful." - Holly Doan (Blacklock’s Reporter)