Speech to the Pacific Northwest History Conference [manuscript], 1974 May 3.

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Speech to the Pacific Northwest History Conference [manuscript], 1974 May 3.

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Typescript photocopy of a speech given by Ernest E. Baker to the Pacific Northwest History Conference, Portland, Oregon, 6 pp, May 3, 1974, on the history of the International Longshoremen's Association and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Baker, Ernest E. (Ernest Edward)

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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...

International Longshoremen's Association. President

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