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IATSE Local 118 - Union of stagehands, theatre technicians, for Vancouver stage, theatre and conventions.
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- 1 of the Pacific Northwest Association of Theatrical Stage Employees was organized under the jurisdiction of the IATSE. At a meeting of this Association on April 10, 1904, its members made an application for a charter and forwarded it to New York, enclosing a fee of three dollars. On July 16, 1904, New York granted the charter. The original 14 signatories were: Wm. Dodd, H.W. Russell, A. McDonald, H. Taylor, Jas. J. Barr, J.A. Smith, F. Woodworth, C.M. Prately, F.K. Blackstone, G.G. Robertson, Wm. Seif, Wallace Coff, J. Hood, and H. Spear. (The last four men had to add their names to the charter at the following meeting as they were working during the original meeting.)
A member paid dues of twenty five cents per month in September 13, 1903, although the local increased dues to fifty cents a month only six months later. In the first half of th
e century, members worked in the Vancouver Opera House, Empress Theatre, and a number of movie and vaudeville houses: Strand, Capital, Orpheum, and Vogue. Of these theatres, only the Orpheum and Vogue still stand today.
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