Abstract Robert W. Cherny is a U.S. historian, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, and a co-founder of the Labor Archives and Research Center, also at San Francisco State University. His research files contain materials gathered by Cherny in the course of his research for biographies of the Russian-American painter Victor Arnautoff and the Australian-born U.S. labor leader and longtime head of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) Harry Bridges,...

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Sound recording of interviews with labor and academic people involved in the founding of the Labor Archives in 1985 including Sandra Cate (Labor Foundation), Robert W. Cherny (SFSU History Dept.), Joanne Euster (SFSU, Director of Libraries), Lawrence Ianni (SFSU administrator), David Jenkins (retired ILWU), David F. Selvin (retired Newspaper Guild, Labor Foundation member), and Eric Solomon (SFSU administrator).