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,...