Exclusion or Solidarity? Vancouver Workers Confront the "Oriental problem"

Abstract

the "Oriental Problem" GILLIAN CREESEVancouver, from its very beginning it may be stated, has always been thoroughly anti-Chinese in its sentiments. 1 The Chinese question was then constantly before the [Vancouver Trades and Labour] Council and many motions were made on the various phases of the question.2 The history of labour politics in early twentieth-century British Columbia was marked by periods of intense anti-Asian agitation.3 Although the labour movement is commonly seen as an indication of developing workingclass consciousness, white workers' consciousness of a common workingclass interest in British Columbia did not extend to Asian workers.4 This

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