Clyde W. Deal papers 1934-1978

Deal, Clyde Watterson, 1888-1978

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Clyde Watterson Deal (born March 10, 1888, Caldwell County, North Carolina- died December 16, 1978, Oregon), labor union leader and public official, was a founder, president and business manager of the Ferryboatmen's Union of California, later the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, from 1918 to 1941. He joined the U.S. Conciliation Service in 1941 as a commissioner and served until 1945. For two years he was labor counselor in charge of labor negotions for the "Atlanta Journal." He rejoined t...

Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974

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Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing his party's leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota Law School, Morse moved to Oregon in 1930 and began teaching at the University of Oregon School of Law. During World War II, he was elected to the U.S....

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....

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

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) ...

Black Ball Line (Firm)

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Ferryboatmen's Union of California

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Peabody, Alex M.

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Scharrenberg, Paul

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Seaman and labor activist. Born Hamburg, Germany, August 21, 1877. Died 1969. Editor of the International Seamen's Union of America's newsletter, Seamen's Journal; Secretary, California Federation of Labor, 1910-1936; Commission of Immigration and Housing, 1913-1922; San Francisco City Planning Commission, 1917-1926; State Board of Harbor Commissioners, 1927-1931; Legislative representative for AFL, 1937-1943; Director, California State Dept. of Industrial Relations. ...

Steelman, John R.

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International Longshoremen's Association. President

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Pegg, Ernest

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Casey, Michael E., 1967-....

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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...

Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

International Seamen's Union

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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...

Grange, David

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United States. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

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Curran, Joseph

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Fox, John M., 1902-1978

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John Fox came to Seattle in 1931 from San Francisco to organize officers and unlicensed personnel into the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific and into the Masters, Mates and Pilots. He was simultaneously an officer of two unions, serving as secretary and business manager of Local 6 of the Masters, Mates and Pilots, which represented licensed officers, and from 1931 to 1941 as secretary of the Inlandboatmen's Union, which represented unlicensed personnel, and as president from 1940 until his re...

Tongue Point Job Corps Center (Astoria, Or.)

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Inland Boatmen's Union of the Pacific

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