Item is a documentary film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19. Archival footage and photographs complement the narration. The film includes interviews with Syd Thompson, a participant in the On To Ottawa Trek and later a leader of the IWA Vancouver local, Steve Brodie, leader of the Vancouver sit-in, and poet Dorothy Livesay.

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Photograph shows men lining up outside the old city hospital. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archive.

Photograph shows people outside the hospital lining up for relief forms. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

• Photograph shows men near makeshift shelters and part of Ballentyne Pier and Elevator No. 2 in the distance.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: Beside the C.P.R. railway tracks, just east of Dunlevy Avenue, and north of the tracks.

• Photograph shows men beside makeshift shelters in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: The flag is in front of the Harbour Commissioner's office. Col. Williams from his office window first saw the men taking shelter.

• Photograph shows railway materials used for making makeshift shelters in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. Part of the Ballentyne Pier is in the background.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: One of a pile of rails beneath which Col. Williams rescued 4 or 5 men - the first.

• Photograph shows makeshift shelters in the "Jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: The jungle started with 14 [men] and rose to 240 men.

Photograph shows the shack in which the first fourteen men were sheltered from the rain in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue.

• Photograph shows four men standing by a makeshift shelter in the 'Jungle' on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The V.H.C. Elevator No.2 building is on the left and the American Can Co. factory is on the right.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: When a case of typhoid finally compelled evacuation, the "residents" sent a memorial of gratitudeon a rough sheet of paper, to the Harbor Commissioners.

• Photograph shows men sitting by a makeshift shelter in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The American Can Company factory is in the background.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: Another of the crude shelters. Most of the men were Canadians - half had fought in the war.

• Photograph shows makeshift shelters in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The V.H.C. Elevator No. 2 building is on the top left and a portion of the American Can Co. factory is on the right.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: At the height of it's population two hundred and forty destite men lived beneath these crude shelters.

• Photograph shows men making makeshift shelters in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The Ballentyne Pier and Elevator No.2 are in the distance.
• J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: These photos taken by Col. R.D. Williams, Harbor Commissioner. It was Col. Williams who started the "jungle" one afternoon in pouring rain.

• Photograph shows men near makeshift shelters in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The V.H.C. Elevator No. 2 is on the left and the American Can Co. factory is on the right.
• J.S. Matthews' notes with negative: The American Can Co. factory is on the right.

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.