Dave Reed oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Dave Reed conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Remembers boxing days, early 1930s; longshore work, 1933; witnessing S.F. police shooting workers during 1934 strike, being arrested for own union activity in 1934, meeting Henry Schmidt, Local 10 pioneer, and Harry Lundeberg, SUP leader; SUP schooner sailor, World War II; and Relief Business Agent, Local 10, ILWU, 1960.
Dates
- 1995 April 18
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography
Retired from Local 10 ILWU, 1993, after sixty years on the San Francisco waterfront; veteran of 1934 strike.
Extent
3 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Dave Reed conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Remembers boxing days, early 1930s; longshore work, 1933; witnessing S.F. police shooting workers during 1934 strike, being arrested for own union activity in 1934, meeting Henry Schmidt, Local 10 pioneer, and Harry Lundeberg, SUP leader; SUP schooner sailor, World War II; and Relief Business Agent, Local 10, ILWU, 1960.
Acquisition Information
Interview conducted by Harvey Schwartz, 1995.
- Audiocassettes.
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 10 (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Labor union members -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.
- Labor unions -- California -- History.
- Longshoremen's Strike, San Francisco, Calif., 1934
- Oral histories.
- Sailors' Union of the Pacific
- Schwartz, Harvey
- Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco.
- Stevedores--California--San Francisco--Interviews.
- Title
- Dave Reed 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
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San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
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