The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 13 collection, 1933-1998.

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International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 13 (Wilmington, Los Angeles, Calif.). The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 13 collection, 1933-1998.

Title

The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 13 collection, 1933-1998.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17410928

Abstract

Formed in 1933 as a member union within the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) to organize waterfront labor in Los Angeles. ILA won recognition after the 1934 General Strike in San Francisco. In 1937, most West Coast local broke with the ILA to join the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and changed its name to the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. The Los Angeles area local became ILWU, Local 13. In 1951, the ILWU broke with the CIO over issues of communism to become an independent international union. During the 1980s the ILWU rejoined with the merged AFL-CIO. The collection contains collective bargaining agreements with the Waterfront Employer's Association (WEA) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and their respective member ship and dock owners, arbitration awards, committee minutes, caucus and convention proceedings, newsletters and strike bulletins, correspondence files, financial records, membership records, union and employer complaints, and legal case files. Subject files cover such waterfront issues as collective bargaining, discrimination, dispatch hall rules and procedures, elections, grievances, health and safety, job training, jurisdictional disputes, mechanization and modernization, pension plans, rank and file disputes, registration, and strikes and lockouts. Non-manuscript material includes audio-tapes of meetings, oral history interviews, and photographs.

Extent

ILWU, Local 13 Part I 56 ms boxes 4 ov boxes (32 linear ft.)ILWU, Local 13 Part II 38 ms boxes 3 index card boxes (8 linear ft.) + 305 reel to reel tapes (9 ov boxes)ILWU Local 13 Part III 67 ms boxes 2 ov boxes (34 linear ft.) + 445 photographs

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California State University, Northridge

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SNAC Resource ID: 6927940

California State University, Northridge

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