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Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- United States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Robert E. Durkin International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, Local 90 collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0131
Abstract Consists of material collected by Robert Durkin during his years in the Masters, Mates and Pilots. Durkin was extensively involved in union politics and as a result the bulk of the collection deals with administrative and election related topics; the material in the collection both implicitly and explicitly helps to detail the struggle for survival that labor has engaged in during the 20th century. In the case of the Masters, Mates and Pilots, it deals with how both automation and...
Dates: 1863 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1989

Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast records

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0002
Abstract The Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast records document the activities of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast (MFPC), more commonly known as the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (MFP), an organization representing the interests of longshoremen, seamen, ship cooks and stewards, other various maritime occupations, agricultural and cannery workers in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The collection consists of the organizational records of the MFP, including material...
Dates: 1935-1942