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Personal Correspondence, ILWU files, 1960

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Identifier: 3

Scope and Contents

Garland Fuller, IBL member in Houston, to HRB, January 20, re problems, violence with ILA and IBL; Transcript of questions and answers of John F. Kennedy while campaigning in Utah, September 23, Kennedy states his attorney-general should remove Hoffa and HRB from office; S.F. Fire Fighters Local 798 to HRB and his response, June 13 and August 5 re HUAC protests at City Hall and use of fire hoses; 23 telegrams to HRB, August 24, from African American longshoremen in Local 13; HRB to L.B. Thomas, September 2, re Thomas resignation as Coast Committeeman; Newton Miyagi, Local 142 (Hawaii) Sec’y-Treas., to HRB and responses, September 15 and 30, re Int’l action on jurisdiction and unity pact with IBT; HRB to Joe Curran, October 7, supporting him after attacks from US Sec'y of Labor Mitchell; HRB to Royce Brier, SF Chronicle, October 20 on Modernization and Mechanization pact; Sterling Hayden to HRB, November 30, asking help to get Rockwell Kent to illustrate his book; Draft of "On the Beam," (HRB’s column in The Dispatcher, ILWU newspaper) article, undted, on USSR shooting down U2 plane inside USSR.

Dates

  • 1960

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Series: 2.30 Cubic Feet (5 legal document boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

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