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Marine Workers Historical Collection, 1930-1996

Title: Marine Workers Historical Collection 1930-1996

The Marine Workers Historical Collection was the result of a community history project on the Chelsea area of New York City conducted by Joe Doyle, then a New York University Department of Public History graduate student, beginning in 1981. Doyle set out to reconstruct and document the working-class population and institutions of the Chelsea waterfront of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century. The project was continued and expanded in partnership with the Marine Workers Historical Association. The collection includes rank-and-file newsletters, flyers, union correspondence, grievance reports, pamphlets, memoirs, memorabilia and printed ephemera of many kinds documenting the working and living conditions of American merchant seamen/women since 1900 and the struggle of maritime workers, particularly sympathizers of the Left, to organize and maintain leadership in the National Maritime Union (NMU) and other unions.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear feet; in 4 record cartons and one folder.

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Scharrenburg, Paul, 1877-1969,. San Francisco Maritime Strike collection, 1934.

Title: San Francisco Maritime Strike collection, 1934.

The records of the San Francisco Maritime Strike document labor unrest in San Francisco from February 16 to October 8, 1934, and events leading to the unrest. Documents in the collection detail the violent clashes between workers and police, a general citywide strike, and a maritime strike that covered the West Coast. After the death of two strike supporters on Bloody Thursday, the Teamsters walked out in support, spreading the strike along the West Coast, and essentially closing the city of San Francisco for four days. The Communist Party and Industrial Workers of the World had both been active in the area for several years, and helped lay the ground work for the strike. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, general correspondence, telegrams, broadsides, statements and leaflets, organ newspapers, booklets and pamphlets, journals, press releases, address lists, and copies of resolutions. Principal parties in these documents include the International Seamen's Union of America (ISUA), the National Longshoremen's Board, the International Longshoremen's Association, the Waterfront Employers Union, and individual ship owners. A majority of the correspondence is written by or addressed to Paul Scharrenburg, an executive member of the ISUA and editor of the Seamen's Journal.

ArchivalResource: 0.60 cubic feet.

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Saure, Sivert Andreas. Sivert Andreas Saure Oral History Interview 1984.

Title: Sivert Andreas Saure Oral History Interview 1984.

This interview was conducted with Sivert Saure on June 17, 1984 in Bjørke, Norway. It contains information about family background, emigration, work, re-emigration to Norway, and further contact with America. The interview was conducted in Norwegian and is not fully translated. Also available are a photograph of Sivert as a young man and a photograph of Sivert at the time of the interview.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette.

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Kerry, Tom. Tom and Karolyn Kerry papers, 1933-1983.

Title: Tom and Karolyn Kerry papers, 1933-1983.

Papers of Tom and Karolyn Kerry, leaders of the Socialist Workers Party: he as an editor and national organizer and she as a labor activist and party worker. Included are biographical information, a bibliography, correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.2 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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Cardinell-Vincent Co. Delegates and ladies 19th annual convention International Seamens' Union of America [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] [graphic].

Title: Delegates and ladies 19th annual convention International Seamens' Union of America [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] [graphic]. August 6, 1915.

ArchivalResource: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 80 cm.

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Marine Workers Historical Collection, 1930-1996

Title: Marine Workers Historical Collection 1930-1996

The Marine Workers Historical Collection was the result of a community history project on the Chelsea area of New York City conducted by Joe Doyle, then a New York University Department of Public History graduate student, beginning in 1981. Doyle set out to reconstruct and document the working-class population and institutions of the Chelsea waterfront of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century. The project was continued and expanded in partnership with the Marine Workers Historical Association. The collection includes rank-and-file newsletters, flyers, union correspondence, grievance reports, pamphlets, memoirs, memorabilia and printed ephemera of many kinds documenting the working and living conditions of American merchant seamen/women since 1900 and the struggle of maritime workers, particularly sympathizers of the Left, to organize and maintain leadership in the National Maritime Union (NMU) and other unions.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 linear feet; (5 boxes)

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American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 4. Correspondence, 1920-1925. [microform].

Title: Series 1, Subseries 4. Correspondence, 1920-1925. [microform].

Includes correspondence relating to the Fess-Kenyon Bill; to the vocational rehabilitation of disabled workers; to workmen's compensation for longshoremen, seamen, and private employees; to the passage of the federal employment retirement bill; to unemployment insurance; to the need for an unemployment insurance investigating committee in New York; to maternity insurance; to the six-day workweek; to reasonable hours of work; to coal mine safety; to discrimination against non-resident dependents of aliens in alloting compensation; to the blanket equality amendment of the National Woman's Party; to a child labor amendment; to labor law administration; to pension systems and to insurance; to the living wage; to mine accident prevention; to radium poisoning; and to coal dusting. Major correspondents include American Mining Congress, H. Foster Bain, Stephen Bauer, Thomas Chadbourne, Joseph Chamberlain, Irene Sylvester Chubb, Miles Dawson, Abraham Epstein, Roy G. Fitzgerald, Felix Frankfurter, Andrew Furuseth, Henri Fuss, William Green, Alice Hamilton, J.J. Handley, John Randolph Haynes, Sidney Hillman, E.A. Holbrook, Herbert Hoover, Otto Mallery, Mining Safety Coordinating Committee, Mining Standardization Coordinating Committee, T.V. O'Connor, Gifford Pinchot, Ida Tarbell, Louis Varlez, Katherine Wiley, and Stephen Wise. Other individual and organizational correspondents of national significance or who wrote with some frequency include American Federation of Labor; Roger N. Baldwin (American Civil Liberties Union); Anthony Chlopek (president, International Longshoremen's Association); John R. Commons; Warren G. Harding; John Randolph Haynes; Frank Hering (chairman, Fraternal Order of Eagles); International Association for Labor Legislation; International Labour Office (League of Nations); International Longshoremen's Association; International Seamen's Union of America; Florence Kelley; Alexander Lambert, MD; Meyer London; James Lynch (commissioner, New York State Industrial Commission); Royal Meeker (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics); National Woman's Party; New York State Industrial Commission; Frances Perkins (New York State Industrial Commission); Ethelbert Stewart (Bureau of Labor Statistics); Irene Sylvester (Mrs. Chubb); United Mine Workers of America; U.S. Bureau of Mines (Department of Interior); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Employees Compensation Commission; and Edwin E. Witte.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (on 11 microfilm reels)

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American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 5. Correspondence

Title: American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 5. Correspondence

Include correspondence relating to labor law administration; to problems of workmen's compensation; to increased use of yellow dog contracts; to improving workmen's compensation; to pension systems; to reduction of industrial waste; to accident prevention; to unemployment relief; to passage of legislation to protect interstate workers, especially longshoremen and seamen; to the Cummins-Graham bill; to the Fitzgerald Workers' Compensation Bill; to the mine safety bill; to coal dusting; to the effect of the American Association for Old Age Security on the American Association for Labor Legislation and to the possible merger of the two organizations; to the Jones bill, concerning vocational rehabilitation of disabled workers; to compensation for railroad workers; and to the Wagner bill, regarding adequate public employment bureaus, and known in earlier years as the Kenyon-Nolan bill. Major correspondents include Thomas L. Chadbourne, Anthony Chlopek, John R. Commons, Miles M. Dawson, W.N. Doak, Paul H. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John Fitch, Andrew Furuseth, William Green, Frank Hering, E.A. Holbrook, Margaret James, Fiorello La Guardia, John L. Lewis, James Lynch, George W. Norris, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, I.M. Rubinow, Joseph Ryan, Ethelbert Talbot, Worth M. Tippy, Charles H. Verrill, Robert F. Wagner, Frederick Wilcox, and Stephen Wise. Other individual and organizational correspondents of national significance or who wrote with some frequency include Jane Addams (Hull House); American Association for Old Age Security; American Federation of Labor; Joseph P. Chamberlain; Abraham Epstein; Roy G. Fitzgerald (congressman); International Labour Office, Washington Branch; International Longshoremen's Association; International Seamen's Union of America; Florence Kelley; Paul U. Kellogg; Thomas Kennedy (president, United Mine Workers of America, District 7); Leifur Magnusson (Washington representative, International Labour Office); Otto Mallery; Royal Meeker (Bureau of Labor Statistics); Irene Sylvester Chubb; Ida Tarbell; United Mine Workers of America; Bureau of Mines; Dept. of Labor; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Employees Compensation Commission; and Edwin E. Witte.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft. (on 12 microfilm reels)

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Postek, Stanley, 1912-1991. Papers, 1933-1986.

Title: Papers, 1933-1986.

Papers include the journal Postek kept while working as a seaman on the "Murmansk Run" during World War II, newspaper clippings, seamen's papers, photos and fragments of a memoir.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

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International Seamen's Union of America. [Constitutions, agreements, etc.]

Title: [Constitutions, agreements, etc.] 1926-

ArchivalResource: pamphlets

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International Seamen's Union of America. International Seamen's Union of America records, 1899-1940

Title: International Seamen's Union of America records, 1899-1940

Records of the International Seamen's Union of America; including branches throughout the United States.

ArchivalResource: 137.7 linear ft. (27 boxes, 6 wallets, 216 volumes, 32 microfilm reels)

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Sivert Andreas Saure Oral History Interview, 1984

Title: Sivert Andreas Saure OralHistory Interview 1984

An oral history interview with Sivert AndreasSaure, a Norwegian immigrant.

ArchivalResource: 2 file folders; 2 photographs; 1 sound cassette

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Olander, Victor A., 1873-1949. Victor Olander papers, 1898-1955.

Title: Victor Olander papers, 1898-1955.

Correspondence, financial and membership data, pamphlets, speeches, and other administrative records of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, which Olander served as secretary-treasurer. Includes minutes of meetings, reports, statistical data, and some correspondence regarding the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, 1932-1955, and other relief and welfare organizations and activities in Chicago and Illinois during the 1930s; and correspondence, financial records, and printed matter (1898-1931, chiefly 1912-1923) from the International Seamen's Union of America (of which Olander was secretary-treasurer, 1924-1936); and minutes of meetings and financial data from its various member locals. Subjects include trade union matters, notable political activities such as lobbying and endorsement of candidates for public office, internal union matters such as organization, growth, and schisms, and topics of interest, such as education, communism, racketeering, and race relations. Correspondents includes John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor. Includes 3 folders of Women's Trade Union League records, 1926-1930.

ArchivalResource: 56.5 linear ft. (135 boxes)2 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. (Camera neg. of seamen's papers).

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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the National Maritime Union, 1937-2005

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the National Maritime Union

The National Maritime Union, which represented workers in the merchant marine, was formed in 1937 in a split from the International Seamen's Union. The National Maritime Union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001. The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the National Maritime Union of America contains a variety of documents on the National Maritime Union, including newspaper clippings, flyers, brochures, biographical material, convention proceedings, chapter and ships' meeting minutes, correspondence, and other items. Material in the collection dates from 1937 to 2005.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 linear feet; (4 boxes)

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American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 2, part b. Correspondence (H-M), 1910-1915. [microform]

Title: Series 1, Subseries 2, part b. Correspondence (H-M), 1910-1915. [microform]

Include correspondence relating to a bill banning the use of white phosphorous in the match industry; to meetings and programs of the Association; to occupational diseases; to accident reporting; to workmen's compensation; to worksite inspection; to child labor; to women's hours of work; to the minimum wage investigation; to lead poisoning; to questions of mediation and compulsory arbitration; to the study of anthrax as an occupational disease; to health insurance; to the revision of the compressed air provisions of the New York State Labor Law; to the Kern Bill; to the National Conference on Unemployment; and to the operation of the Municipal Lodging House, on the Board of which Andrews served. Major and frequent correspondents include L.W. Hatch, Frederick L. Hoffman, Seth Low, Royal Meeker, Thomas J. Parkinson, I.M. Rubinow, and Henry R. Seager. Other individual and organizational correspondents of national significance or who wrote with some frequency include the following with names beginning with letters H-M: Fred S. Hall (secretary, Pennsylvania Child Labor Association); M.B. Hammond (associate professor, Ohio State University); William Hard (writer, EVERYBODY'S); G.W.W. Hanger (U.S. Bureau of Labor); Samuel R. Haythorn; C.R. Henderson; Hamilton Higday; Morris Hillquit; Frederick L. Hoffman (statistician, Prudential Insurance Co.); Reinhard Hohaus; Robert Hunter; Illinois State Federation of Labor; Frances Ingram (Neighborhood House, Louisville, Ky.); International Seamen's Union of America; International Typographical Union; Ethel M. Johnson (Massachusetts Dept. of Labor and Industry); Frederick N. Judson; Marie Kasten (State of Connecticut Industrial Commission); Florence Kelley; Arthur Kellogg; Paul U. Kellogg; Susan M. Kingsbury (director, Women's Educational and Industrial Union; William Kirk; Robert M. La Follette; John Lapp (editor, MODERN MEDICINE); Julia C. Lathrop (Hull House); William Launer (secretary, Glass Bottle Blowers' Association); Max Lazard; F. Lee (U.S. Senate legislative counsel); Don D. Lescohier (secretary, Minnesota Branch AALL); Samuel McCune Lindsay (secretary, National Child Labor Committee); Walter Lippmann; Max O. Lorenz (Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, Wisconsin); Louisiana Board of Health; Owen R. Lovejoy (general secretary, National Child Labor Committee); and Seth Low. Other correspondents include S.W. McCall; Roswell C. McCrea (associate director, The School of Philanthropy); Mary E. McDowell (University of Chicago Settlement); W.E. McEwen (labor commissioner, Bureau of Labor and Industries, Minnesota); Alexander J. McKelway (secretary for the southern states, National Child Labor Committee); Reuben McKitrick; V.E. Macy (treasurer of New York Branch); W.A. Mahon (Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America); Theodore Marburg; John Martin; Frederick C. Martindale (secretary of state, Dept. of State); Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics; Royal Meeker (U.S. Dept. of Labor); H.V. Mercer (attorney, member, Minnesota Employees' Compensation Commission); Darwin J. Meserole (managing attorney, The Cooperative Law Company); Henry C. Metcalf (Tufts College); John Mitchell (vice-president, A.F. of L.); Wesley C. Mitchell; Anne Morgan; Frank Morrison (A.F. of L.); Edward A. "Ned" Moseley (secretary, Interstate Commerce Commission); Henry Moskowitz (secretary, Society for Ethical Culture); and Hugo Munsterberg (professor).

ArchivalResource: Series 1, Subseries 2, parts a, b, and c: 8 linear ft. (on 9 microfilm reels)

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Scharrenberg, Paul, b. 1877. Paul Scharrenberg papers, 1893-1960.

Title: Paul Scharrenberg papers, 1893-1960.

Correspondence and papers relating primarily to Scharrenberg's career in the labor movement and his other positions.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, 5 cartons, 24 volumes (ca. 10 linear ft.)

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Stanley Postek Papers, 1933-1986

Title: Stanley Postek Papers 1933-1986

Ladislaus F. Szeliga (1912-1991), better known as Stanley Postek, was a seaman, union organizer, volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, and prizefighter from Lowell, Massachusetts. Postek went to sea in the mid-1930s, and became an organizer for the International Seamen's Union of America. Along with other members of the union's rank and file, Postek broke to the National Maritime Union in 1937. Postek fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and served as a merchant seaman during World War II. During the Korean War, he was barred from maritime employment, because of his associations with the Communist Party. Once he regained his papers he sailed until retirement in 1966. Postek was also involved in the Marine Workers Historical Association. He died in San Diego in 1991. The collection includes diaries, photographs, clippings documenting labor activities, sailing paperwork, and union documents. The collection documents the wide range of activities Postek participated in throughout his life, with particular emphasis on his sailing and union activities and his continued interest in these areas after he retired. Information regarding Postek's activities in Spain are represented in the collections Stanley Postek Spanish Civil War Papers (ALBA.089) and Stanley Postek Photographs (ALBA.PHOTO.089), also available at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

ArchivalResource: 1.67 linear feet; in 1 manuscript box and 1 record carton.

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International Seamen's Union of America. Arbitration between International Seamen's Union of America, et al., and American Mail Lines, et al : San Francisco, Calif. : typescript, 1936 Mar. 18.

Title: Arbitration between International Seamen's Union of America, et al., and American Mail Lines, et al : San Francisco, Calif. : typescript, 1936 Mar. 18.

Contains testimony for the arbitration between International Seamen's Union of America and American Mail Lines. Includes testimony concerning Chinese workers on the ships.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (165 leaves) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80059696 View

Maritime Workers / National Maritime Union Research Files of Bruce Nelson, 1931-2011

Title: Maritime Workers / National Maritime Union Research Files of Bruce Nelson 1931-2011

Historian Bruce Nelson is the author of (1990). This collection contains files on prominent radical sailors who were members of the National Maritime Union, and files on several maritime labor events and on related organizations. The files include Nelson's correspondence with these sailors, detailed summaries (or, in the case of Joseph Stack, transcripts) of oral histories, printed ephemera and internal National Maritime Union documents, in particular from the post-World War II period of internal struggle between the union's Communist and anti-Communist factions. Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet; (2 boxes)

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