Barney Mayes Manuscript: Untitled Maritime Labor Novel undated

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union

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In the years following World War II, rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen's Association became increasingly restive as a result of dissatisfaction with union contracts. Finally, in the fall of 1951, a series of unauthorized strikes was climaxed by a twenty-one day wildcat strike in the Port of New York. The strikers included several high-ranking ILA officials and a future president, Thomas Gleason. The strike ended when a board of inquiry to investigate the strike...

Lundeberg, Harry, (Harrald Olaf), 1901-1957

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Weir, Stan

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Sailors' Union of the Pacific

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Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast

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Labor organization. From the guide to the Convention reports, 1936-1937, (University of Washington Libraries Special Collections) ...

Mayes, Barney

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Barney Mayes was an editor of the Voice of the Federation, the press of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, which united all West Coast maritime unions from 1934 to 1937, when the Federation split over a struggle between the anti-communist Sailors Union of the Pacific (led by Harry Lundeberg) and the communist-oriented International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (led by Harry Bridges) over the issue of democracy within the Federation. Mayes was also a staffer for the Meatcutter's u...

Bridges, Harry, 1901-1990

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Harry Renton Bridges, also known as Alfred Renton Byrant Bridges, came to the United States in 1920 from Australia where he had been a seaman and involved in union activities. Bridges continued to be active on the docks in fighting for labor rights and was instrumental in getting the International Longshore Association (ILA), an affiliate of the AF of L, recognized as the bargaining unit for the entire Pacific coast. He became president of ILA Local 34-36 and in 1936 its Pacific Coast preside...