Materials relating to I.L.W.U. case, Longshoremen - B List, 1963-1984.

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Materials relating to I.L.W.U. case, Longshoremen - B List, 1963-1984.

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Includes background documentation, typed transcripts of tape-recorded interviews with longshoremen, and clippings. Also information on Harry Bridges, the Longshore Jobs Defense Committee, and the Pacific Maritime Association. Includes papers acquired as research for an oral history, as well as transcripts.

Transcripts and documentation : 2 boxes (.6 linear ft.)Phonotapes: 46 sound cassettes : analog.

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Keeney, Elinor Randall, 1932-

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Material relates to a suit against I.L.W.U., San Francisco and the Pacific Maritime Association over deregistration of longshoremen (San Francisco, 1963-64). From the description of Materials relating to I.L.W.U. case, Longshoremen - B List, 1963-1984. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227455740 ...

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...

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...

Pacific Maritime Association

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