Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike, 1934.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
William J. Lewis collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0119
Abstract
Includes correspondence from the period of the 1934 Pacific Coast Maritime strike, when Lewis was International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) district president for the West Coast; scrapbooks from the 1934 strike era that document his strike leadership, his attempts to quash insurgent rank and file strike leaders like Harry Bridges, and the funeral procession for the two San Francisco strike supporters. Collection also contains the ILA district periodical Pacific Coast Longshoreman,...
Dates:
[1919-1959] 1933-1936; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1936
Elaine Black Yoneda collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0107
Abstract
Consists of the papers of Elaine Black Yoneda and research material gathered by author Vivian McGuckin Raineri in the course of writing the biography, Red Angel: The Life and Times of Elaine Black Yoneda. Collection includes correspondence from Manzanar, duplicates of FBI files, subject files regarding the San Francisco 1934 General Strike and Tom Mooney, a manuscript history of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Auxiliary No. 16, transcripts of oral...
Dates:
circa 1900-1991, bulk 1930-1988; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1988