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Waterfront Worker: 8 issues, 1936 February 17-24, March 9-April 13

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 15
Identifier: 10

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Two scrapbooks of news clippings cover events from 1935 to 1938 related to HRB, waterfront unions, the Maritime Federation of the Pacific and the early years of the CIO. A third scrapbook covers the second HRB deportation trial in 1942. There are eight issues of the Waterfront Worker and 15 issues of The American Citizen, an anti-Communist paper. One leaflet, unsigned, ridicules Edward Vandeleur of the San Francisco Labor Council. Two newspapers have been relocated to the Oversize News Print boxBthe S.F. Examiner, 7/10/34, reporting the funeral march of Sperry and Bordoise, and the S. F. News , 6/4/38, reporting the Town Hall Meeting of the CIO and the Committee of 43.

Dates

  • 1936 February 17-24, March 9-April 13

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Series: 0.19 Cubic Feet (0.5 legal document box)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5549