Reminiscences of Louis Goldblatt : oral history, 1978.

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Reminiscences of Louis Goldblatt : oral history, 1978.

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Family background; childhood; education; City College of New York, University of California at Los Angeles; early exposure to communism, other radical movements; involvement with International Longshoremen and Warehousers' Union (ILWU): strikes, contract negotiations, 1935-75, rise of leadership of ILWU, split, hostilities with Teamsters, 1937, ILWU into Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1937, organization of Hawaiian plantation workers, 1947-49, organization of Hollywood; struggle against internment of Japanese 1942; effect of red baiting during McCarthy era on ILWU's relations with Congress of Industrial Organizations; travel in France and Japan; trip to Soviet Union, 1959; Kennedy-Hoffa dispute; ILWU and student anti-war movement at Berkeley, 1960s; feud with Harry Bridges, president of ILWU; retirement 1975; trip to Israel, 1976; family and wife; recollections of Jimmy Hoffa, Harry Bridges, J. Paul St. Sure.

Transcript: 1,165 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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