Jack Price papers 1935-1967

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Jack Price papers 1935-1967

Union official

.84 cubic feet (2 boxes)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6370726

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Price, Jack

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Jack Price (1902-1984) was named George Allen Price, but was known as Jack. He was a charter member and official of Local 1 of the International Longshoremen's Association in Raymond, Washington. Price served as second Vice President of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union from 1935 to 1938. From 1942 to 1967, he was a member and officer of ILWU Local 19 in Seattle. He was a member of several ILWU missions to foreign countries, including a 1959 delegation to the first All Pa...

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...

Seattle (Wash.). Maritime Advisory Board

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