Building the ILWU in Hawaii : interviews with Louis Goldblatt, secretary treasurer, 1943-1977 : oral history transcripts / interviews by Edward Beechert, Pacific Regional Oral History Program, University of Hawaii, 1979.

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...

Goldblatt, Louis

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Louis Goldblatt was a prominent labor organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the Pacific Coast. In 1937, he helped organize the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), serving as secretary-treasurer of the ILWU from 1938 to 1977. He also served as secretary-treasurer of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from 1938 to 1942. Although he did not actively participate in the San Francisco hotel strikes of 1937 and 1941-1942, he spoke before mass audie...

Beechert, Edward Delos, 1920-

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University of Hawaii. Pacific Regional Oral History Program.

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Hall, Jack, 1914-

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