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Description
Retired in 1993 from Ship Clerks' Local 34, ILWU; reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement, 1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History Workshop, 1980s. LARC also has a supplementary interview tape that oral historian Harvey Schwartz used in his May 2004 article on Watson in the ILWU Dispatcher that has not been transcribed.
Employee screening--California Labor union members--California--San Francisco--Interviews Labor unions--California--History Stewards--California--San Francisco--Interviews International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 34 (San Francisco, Calif.) International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Northern California District Council Marine Cooks and Stewards
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
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Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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