International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Harry Bridges and Noriko (Nikki) Sawada Bridges Flynn Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0023
Abstract
This collection, the bulk of which spans the years 1934 to 1996, comprises personal photographs of Harry Bridges and Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn with their families and friends, as well as photographs that document Bridges' and Flynn's attendance at various International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) events.
Dates:
1930-1996; Majority of material found within 1934-1996
Archie Brown collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0087
Scope and Contents
The Archie Brown collection includes items from the 1930s and 1960s, but the majority of materials date from the 1970s, and document Brown's active role in the ILWU, the Communist Party, and a host of progressive organizations. The many pamphlets and broadsides testify to his commitment to social justice and also give an idea about the issues of importance to San Francisco leftists in the 1970s. Other activities of which there is less documentation include economic issues, such as the...
Dates:
1970-1978, 1933-1978; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1978
Carol Cuénod oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-cuenod
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Carol Cuénod conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Topics include insightful reflections on politically active mother, Left politics in California during 1940s-1950s, California Labor School, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Dates:
1994 August 9-September 19
Herbert A. Mills papers
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0395
Abstract
Collection comprises published writings by Herb Mills on the San Francisco waterfront and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
Dates:
1976-1999
Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0002
Abstract
The Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast records document the activities of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast (MFPC), more commonly known as the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (MFP), an organization representing the interests of longshoremen, seamen, ship cooks and stewards, other various maritime occupations, agricultural and cannery workers in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The collection consists of the organizational records of the MFP, including material...
Dates:
1935-1942
Paul Pinsky oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-pinsky
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Paul Pinsky conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Recalls U.C. Berkeley; labor organizing, 1930s; discusses career as Research Director, California CIO Council, late 1930s-late 1940s; represented International Fishermen & Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) and Marine Cooks and Stewards (MCS) at their CIO purge trials, 1950; consultant to ILWU specializing in employee benefit and union insurance plans; searching comments on ILWU leadership.
Dates:
1995 October 24-25
Don Watson oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-watson
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...
Dates:
1994 March 11-April 21
Elaine Black Yoneda collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0107
Abstract
Consists of the papers of Elaine Black Yoneda and research material gathered by author Vivian McGuckin Raineri in the course of writing the biography, Red Angel: The Life and Times of Elaine Black Yoneda. Collection includes correspondence from Manzanar, duplicates of FBI files, subject files regarding the San Francisco 1934 General Strike and Tom Mooney, a manuscript history of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Auxiliary No. 16, transcripts of oral...
Dates:
circa 1900-1991, bulk 1930-1988; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1988
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Audiocassettes. 3
- Oral histories. 3
- Labor unions -- California -- History. 2
- Labor unions -- Longshoremen -- United States. 2
- Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 2
- Communism -- California. 1
- Communists -- California -- Interviews. 1
- Communists -- United States. 1
- Employee screening--California. 1
- General Strike, San Francisco, Calif., 1934. 1
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- History. 1
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- Pictorial works. 1
- Japan -- Pictorial works. 1
- Japanese American women -- Photographs. 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. 1
- Labor leaders -- California -- Interviews. 1
- Labor movement -- California -- History. 1
- Labor union members -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews. 1
- Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco -- History. 1
- Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs. 1
- Labor unions -- Membership -- Photographs. 1
- Labor unions -- Merchant seamen -- United States. 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. 1
- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- United States. 1
- Merchant mariners -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Merchant mariners -- United States. 1
- Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike, 1934 -- Photographs. 1
- Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike, 1934. 1
- Photographs. 1
- Political activists -- California -- San Francisco. 1
- Portraits. 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works. 1
- Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco. 1
- Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) -- Photographs. 1
- Stevedores -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Stevedores. 1
- Stewards--California--San Francisco--Interviews. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- California -- San Francisco. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Merchant marine -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Merchant marine -- United States. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco. 1
- Strikes and lockouts. 1
- Women in the labor movement -- California. 1
- Women labor leaders -- California. 1
- Women labor union members -- United States. 1
- Women labor union members--California--San Francisco--Interviews. 1 ∧ less
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