Scope and Contents Comprises two scrapbooks created and collected by Joseph A. Murphy and Doris Murphy documenting his lifelong involvement in the labor movement, particularly as a business agent for the Hod Carriers Local 36 in San Francisco. The first scrapbook, a red leather-bound album spanning the years 1943 to 1980, contains photographs of Murphy with union members and leaders as well as family and friends. Also contains newsclippings related to the San Franicso building trades, some loose-leaf...

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...

Abstract The Earl Noldin Papers contain material documenting Noldin's activity within the rail unions, and his work as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). Types of material include personal and union-related correspondence including letters between Noldin and a prison inmate, Dan Crombie; union card and dues books; a large scrapbook of articles written by Noldin for the I.W.W. newspaper Industrial Worker; an incomplete set of United Railroad...