Oral history interview with Frank Jenkins, 1972 [sound recording].

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Oral history interview with Frank Jenkins, 1972 [sound recording].

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Jenkins details the history of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union's (ILWU) exclusionary practices in the Puget Sound area, discusses discriminatory hiring policies which limited employment opportunities for black longshoremen in Seattle, the 1921 and 1934 strikes, and the changed employment practices resulting from the '34 strike. The structure of the ILWU is discussed, as well as some contract negotiations that occurred during Jenkins' tenure as a union official. He chronicles the turbulent post-war history of the longshoremen's union in the Puget Sound area and explains the reason for the union's expulsion from the CIO in 1948.

Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes (60 min. each)Transcript: [13] p.

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