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Title
Don Watson oral history
Creator
Labor Archives and Research Center
Schwartz, Harvey
Watson, Don, 1929-
Date Created and/or Issued
[1994-03-11,1994-03-25,1994-04-21,1994-05-11,1994-05-16,2004-05-03]
Contributing Institution
San Francisco State University, Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection
California Revealed from Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University
Rights Information
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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.
Type
sound
Format
Master
Audio cassette
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Extent
8 Tapes of 8
Identifier
Oral History Collection
csfst_000030_t1; csfst_000030_t2; csfst_000030_t3; csfst_000030_t4; csfst_000030_t5; csfst_000030_t6; csfst_000030_t7; csfst_000030_t8
Language
English
Subject
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.)
Provenance
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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