Evans, Arthur Herbert (Slim)
Evelyn ( ) Evans
Arthur Evans was a leader in the Canadian and American industrial labour movement.
On December 15, 1932, the Princeton Star reported that the hearing of Arthur Evans, “leader
of local labor agitation, who is in gaol at Penticton on a charge of being a member of an illegal organization” was being delayed.
His daughter Jean Stewart (Evans) Shells came to Princeton 1991 and 1992 to be part of Miners’ Memorial Days (June 20, 1992). She wrote a biography of her father: “Work and Wages!”
Carpenter and strike organizer in 1930’s. Forced out of town. Refer to Art Shenton’s transcript. Story in book Mine Mill by Solski & Smaller.
See also: Soviet Princeton : Slim Evans and the 1932-33 miners’ strike (New Star, 2015) by Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat.
Princeton Star, December 15, 1932, pages 1, 2