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Paul Pinsky California Congress of Industrial Organizations Council collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0035
Scope and Contents The contents of these boxes provide examples of two ongoing activities of the California CIO Information and Research Department, which Paul Pinsky directed in the 1940's; 1) the publication of information for unionists on legal, legislative, political, and economic issues of the day, e.g. segregation and racism, big business, taxes, the Smith and McCarren Acts; and 2) the conduct of research to provide evidence and testimony on behalf of particular unions at government hearings regarding...
Dates: 1942 - 1958

Paul Pinsky Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) California Council Pamphlet collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pam-0001
Scope and Contents The Pinsky Pamphlet Collection contains printed material such as pamphlets, booklets and convention proceedings published by the CIO and affiliated unions including the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America; International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; Marine Cooks' and Stewards' Association of the Pacific Coast; and International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers primarily during the...
Dates: 1936-1964

Paul Pinsky oral history

 Item
Identifier: larc-oh-pinsky
Abstract

Sound recording of interview with Paul Pinsky conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Recalls U.C. Berkeley; labor organizing, 1930s; discusses career as Research Director, California CIO Council, late 1930s-late 1940s; represented International Fishermen & Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) and Marine Cooks and Stewards (MCS) at their CIO purge trials, 1950; consultant to ILWU specializing in employee benefit and union insurance plans; searching comments on ILWU leadership.

Dates: 1995 October 24-25