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

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

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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

0.75 linear feet; (2 boxes)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331735

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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National Maritime Union

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The National Maritime Union (NMU) was an American labor union founded in May 1937 representing workers in the merchant marine. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in July 1937. After a failed merger with a different maritime group in 1988, the union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001....

Stack, Joe

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Bailey, Bill

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Longshoremen activist. From the description of Bill Bailey oral history transcripts and related papers, [ca. 1970-1978]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 233004149 ...

Smith, Ferdinand

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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...

Richmond, Al, 1913-1987

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Al Richmond is currently the historian/museum curator for the Grand Canyon Railway museum. He has a Master of Science Degree in Natural Resources Interpretation and Quaternary Studies from Northern Arizona University. From the guide to the Al Richmond Collection, 1975-1985., (Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.) ...

International Seamen's Union of America

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Nelson, Bruce 1940-

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Historian Bruce Nelson is the author of Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (1990) and Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College. From the guide to the Maritime Workers / National Maritime Union Research Files of Bruce Nelson, 1931-2011, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

Curran, Joseph Edwin, 1906-1981

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Labor union executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Curran : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731534 ...

Hynes, Harry, d. 1937

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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...

Communist Party of the United States of America. Mariners Club.

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NMU Pilot.

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Marine Workers Industrial Union (U.S.).

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Ray, Tommy

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Communist Party of the United States of America. Waterfront Section

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Gladstone, John, 1917-

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Dockers News (New York, N.Y.).

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Boano, Danny

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International Longshoremen's Association. President

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Hudson, Roy

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Myers, Frederick N.

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McElroy, Bob

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Keith, Charles

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