Don Watson oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Don Watson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement, 1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History Workshop, 1980s. LARC also has a supplementary interview tape that oral historian Harvey Schwartz used in his May 2004 article on Watson in the ILWU Dispatcher that has not been transcribed.
Dates
- 1994 March 11-April 21
Creator
- Watson, Don (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography
Retired in 1993 from Ship Clerks' Local 34, ILWU.
Extent
8 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Don Watson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement, 1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History Workshop, 1980s. LARC also has a supplementary interview tape that oral historian Harvey Schwartz used in his May 2004 article on Watson in the ILWU Dispatcher that has not been transcribed.
Acquisition Information
Interviews conducted by Harvey Schwartz, 1994, 2004.
- Audiocassettes.
- Employee screening--California.
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Northern California District Council.
- Labor union members -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.
- Labor unions -- California -- History.
- Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
- Oral histories.
- Schwartz, Harvey
- Stewards--California--San Francisco--Interviews.
Creator
- Watson, Don (Person)
- Title
- Don Watson Oral History
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu