Abstract Robert W. Cherny is a U.S. historian, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, and a co-founder of the Labor Archives and Research Center, also at San Francisco State University. His research files contain materials gathered by Cherny in the course of his research for biographies of the Russian-American painter Victor Arnautoff and the Australian-born U.S. labor leader and longtime head of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) Harry Bridges,...

Abstract Robert W. Cherny is a U.S. historian, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, and a co-founder of the Labor Archives and Research Center, also at San Francisco State University. His research files contain materials gathered by Cherny in the course of his research for biographies of the Russian-American painter Victor Arnautoff and the Australian-born U.S. labor leader and longtime head of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) Harry Bridges,...

Abstract Materials related to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA) at the national, California and local levels, including convention proceedings, bylaws, agreements, and pamphlets, collected in the course of Johnson's work as business agent for UBCJA's Local 550 Chapter in Oakland, California. While the majority of the collection reflects official documentation from UBCJA and California State Council of Carpenters, also present are publications from workers and players...

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Primarily material related to Schneiderman's role as California State Secretary of the Communist Party, including correspondence, leaflets, clippings, pamphlets, memoranda, reports, hearing transcripts and manuscript for his autobiography, Dissent on Trial , including one chapter not published.

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The Loretta Starvus Stack collection consists of letters, cards and drawings sent by Smith Act defendant, Loretta Stack, to her husband, Walter Stack, and children, as well as those she received from family and friends while she was detained in the Los Angeles County Jail from August to December of 1951, and during her trial in Los Angeles in 1952 (Yates, et. al v. United States Government).

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...