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Longshoremen's strikes -- California -- San Francisco -- 1930-1940.

 Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

William J. Lewis collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0119
Abstract Includes correspondence from the period of the 1934 Pacific Coast Maritime strike, when Lewis was International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) district president for the West Coast; scrapbooks from the 1934 strike era that document his strike leadership, his attempts to quash insurgent rank and file strike leaders like Harry Bridges, and the funeral procession for the two San Francisco strike supporters. Collection also contains the ILA district periodical Pacific Coast Longshoreman,...
Dates: [1919-1959] 1933-1936; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1936