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Frank Bardacke Watsonville canneries strike records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0093
Abstract
The Frank Bardacke Watsonville Canneries Strike Collection consists of materials collected by Bardacke, one of the founders of the Watsonville chapter of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and a resident of that community since the early 1970s, who was actively involved with the support committee for the striking cannery workers. It is largely comprised of newspaper clippings, mainly from the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, leaflets, and newsletters....
Dates:
1984-1989
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Perley Payne oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-payne
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Perley Payne conducted by Fred Hirsh. Discusses growing up in a pioneer farming family in the Santa Clara Valley; agricultural and orchard work in the 1930s, including labor conditions for bindlestiffs and itinerant agricultural laborers; organizing cannery workers in Campbell. Discusses being recruited to go fight in the Spanish civil war as an Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer; attitudes toward "premature anti-fascists" when they returned home; worked at...
Dates:
1999 March 17
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Elizabeth Schilling Watsonville canneries strike collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0428
Abstract
This collection includes materials collected and produced by journalist Elizabeth Schilling in the course of researching and reporting on the Watsonville canneries strike between 1985 and 1988. Materials include Schilling's research and interview notes; newspaper clippings documenting the strike and its aftermath; flyers, leaflets, newsletters, and press releases from Teamsters Local 912, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Shaw's, Watsonville Canning and Frozen Foods Co, and community...
Dates:
1985-1988, 2017
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Peter Shapiro Watsonville Canneries Strike Interviews
Collection
Identifier: larc-oh-shapiro
Dates:
2009-2014
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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- Cannery workers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
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- Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
- Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural processing industries -- California -- Watsonville. 3
- Watsonville (Calif.) 3
- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) 1
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- Cannery workers -- California. 1
- Mexican American women labor union members -- California -- Watsonville. 1
- Migrant labor -- California. 1
- Oral histories. 1
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American. 1
- Women blue collar workers 1
- Women cannery workers. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area. 1 ∧ less
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- Hirsh, Fred 1
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 912 (Watsonville, Calif.) 1
- Payne, Perley 1
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