 It established the Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers' Association to replace the ILA as a company union.Almost a decade of peace followed the 1923 strike.It was not a lasting peace however, and in 1933 the Shipping Federation discovered that not only had the union been transformed by Communist Party organizers into a militant union, but also that agitators were planning a general strike for the province to begin on Vancouver's waterfront in 1935.