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Sue Ko Lee oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-lee
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Sue Ko Lee conducted by Judy Yung. Sue Ko Lee was a participant in the 1938 National Dollar Stores garment worker strike. This strike was the first labor organizing in San Francisco's Chinatown, eventually breaking the colorline that had kept Chinese workers from jobs outside Chinatown. Lee later became the first Chinese American business agent in the garment worker union.
Dates:
1989 October 26
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Sue Ko Lee scrapbook on Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: larc-srp-0011
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook belonging to Sue Ko Lee, a button hole machine operator at the National Dollar Store garment factory in San Francisco's Chinatown, and member of the Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (CLGWU), Local 341. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, bulletins and photographs pertaining to the CLGWU, mostly concerning the strike at the National Dollar Store/Golden Gate Manufacturing in 1938. Contains a few images of Sue Ko Lee, and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
Dates:
1937-1938
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Leon N. Coffey collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0335
Scope and Contents
A variety of material related to Leon N. Coffey's participation in American Postal Workers Union Local 320 in Stockton, California. Includes documents related to a back pay merit case, a forced resignation arbitration case, supervisors doing bargaining unit work, and automation and contract enforcement. Also includes selected issues of postal union newsletters from around the county, including Local 320's Postmark.
Dates:
1992 - 2005
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Leon Olson Artifacts
Collection
Identifier: larc-art-0006
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Leon Olson Artifacts, Published and Audio Visual Material
Collection
Identifier: larc-mot-0012
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Leon Olson Bay Area Typographical Union Local 21 collection, part 2
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0006
Scope and Contents
Primarily material related to BATU, Local 21, including pamphlets, meeting minutes, newspapers and correspondence. Also includes San Francisco News Chapel correspondence (1922-1959) and a folder on the San Rafael Independent Journal strike (1970-1971).
Dates:
1922 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1979
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Leon Olson Bay Area Typographical Union Local 21 collection, part 3
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0311
Scope and Contents
Unorganized records and publications related to BATU, Local 21, including correspondence, arbitration documents, union newspaper issues, contract booklets, and one folder, ""Anti-Rat Law,"" (1964).
Dates:
1964 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1987
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Norman Leonard papers
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0027
Abstract
The files of Norman Leonard consist of legal cases brought to court by the law firm on behalf of its clients. For many years he represented the International Longshoreman's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and other Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions. Over the course of his career he defended Harry Bridges, Communist Party members prosecuted under the Smith Act, conscientious objectors targeted by the Selective Service, and individuals involved in the Free Speech Movement.
Dates:
1938-1980 1945-1960; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1960
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Leslie Salmeron
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-salmeron
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Leslie Salmeron. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. Originally from Nicaragua, Salmeron worked as a room cleaner for the San Francisco Hilton during before getting hired by...
Dates:
2009 February 3
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Elinor Levine AFSCME/Coalition of University Employees (CUE) collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0430
Abstract
Contains materials related to the organization of clerical workers within the University of California system under American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and Coalition of University Employees (CUE). Includes newsletters, photographs, meeting minutes, financial records, organizing campaign materials, and correspondence.
Dates:
1994-2010
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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