Demonstrations , 1947, undated
Contents
Contains 136 photographs arranged by subject. Two events are well documented: the UE strike at US Motors, Los Angeles, 1946, with 9 photos by Otto Rothschild, and 24 photographs of the Labor Day Parade, San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, 1947, with floats and banners stating an anti-Taft Hartley Bill message. Other subjects include the United Autoworkers (UAW); CIO-California; parades, demonstrations, and strikes; Office and Professional Workers of America, United (UOPW), Food, Tobacco, and Electrical Workers (FTA), Fishermen and Maritime unions; and the Electrical, Radio, and Machinery Workers of America, United (UE); Mooney Memorial Service; historical subjects; and women.
There are also identified individuals from the photographs in the subject folders which are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced to the subject folder.
From the Series:- Addes, George - Folder 11: UAW
- Addiego, Frank - Folder 11: UAW
- Bell, Lily - Folder 26: Women
- Bingham, Brad - Folder 14: UE
- Brant, Carl (?) - Folder 14: UE
- Bridges, Harry - Folder 18: Maritime Unions; Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Burke, Eugene - Folder 18: Maritime Unions
- Cayton, Revels - Folder 26: Women
- Connelly, Philip - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Fagerhaugh, Ole - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Fernandes, Johnnie - Folder 11: UAW
- Frankensteen, Richard - Folder 11: UAW
- Gillespie, William - Folder 11: UAW
- Goldmann, William - Folder 11: UAW
- Govea, J. G. - Folder 11: UAW
- Halling, Bjorne - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Heide, Ruby - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Horne, Lena - Folder 26: Women
- Jelusich, Al - Folder 11: UAW
- Jenkins, Dave - Folder 12: Calif. CIO; Folder 22: Parades-Labor Day 1947
- Johnson, Joe - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Jones, Cleo - Folder 11: UAW
- Kibre, Jeff - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- King, Jean McKillup (?) - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Lynden, Richard - Folder 18: Maritime Unions; Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Michener, Lew - Folder 11: UAW
- Miranda, Fred - Folder 11: UAW
- Owens, Dayton - Folder 11: UAW
- Paton, Eugene - Folder 18: Maritime Unions
- Patterson, James - Folder 11: UAW
- Pettit, Eugene - Folder 11: UAW
- Pinsky, Paul - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Poohar, Nicholas - Folder 14: UE
- Povlichenko, Ludmilla- Folder 26: Women
- Quintell, Fred - Folder 11: UAW
- Roberts, Holland - Folder 22: Parades-Labor Day 1947
- Robertson, J. R. "Bob" - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Roesch, Paul - Folder 11: UAW
- Schmidt, Henry - Folder 18: Maritime Unions
- Schnur, Paul - Folder 12: Calif. CIO
- Seguri, Rose - Folder 26: Women
- Sentna, Bill - Folder 14: UE
- Stewart, Tom - Folder 11: UAW
- Thimmes, James - Folder 12: Calif. CIO; Folder 25: Trade Unions
- Thomas, R. J. Folder 11: UAW
Dates
- 1947, undated
Availability
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Series: 17 Folders
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
General
Seamen picket with NMU banner, San Francisco; anti-Taft-Hartley Bill meeting, outdoors; Phil Connelly speaks to crowd, Pershing Square, Los Angeles (?); San Francisco Civic Center meeting; pickets protesting Tenney Committee, Oakland, 1947; pickets, San Francisco, 1948.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu