Abstract

Papers, correspondence, documents, and subject files documenting Harry Bridges' personal life, his four decade presidency of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), his activities after retirement, and the honors accorded him after death.

Scope and Contents These records represent the diverse interests of the Institute of Industrial Relations and include arbitration records, records of two employer associations, the Industrial Association of San Francisco and the Waterfront Employers Association, materials from the (U.S.) Pacific Coast Maritime Industry Board during World War II, studies by the Institute For Science and Labor in Japan, 1931-1932, and a strikes series, 1934-1949, including materials on the 1936 Salinas Lettuce Strike by the...

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,...