... caucuses inside interracial CIO unions, like the left-leaning International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) or the liberal United Steelworkers of America (USWA). Few scholars can claim to know more about the history of West Coast...

.... A longtime labor activist and former cannery worker, Woolf boasted a long life of union involvement. He proudly recounted how his front teeth had been knocked out during the San Francisco General Strike of 1934. In the 1930s he founded the Ship Scalers and Alaska Cannery Workers Union, an ILWU local. On his...

...- ates drastically limited the rights of their communist members. Reds or Rackets and “Stalin Over Wisconsin” examine two pillars of the labor left: one relatively successful, the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), and the other, ultimately defeated, the Allis Chalmers...

... of the people in the generation before me in SOJA, Sara Flocks, recruited me into Labor Summer, which was a program out of the UC Berkeley Labor Center to put college students into the labor unions. She put me into the Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), one of the most militant unions and one...

... Hall? The Struggle for Job Control in the ILWU During World War 11,” in The CIO‘s Lejt-Led Union, ed. Steve Rosswurm (New Brunswick Rutgers University Press, 1992), 47-67. 30. On Gulf Coast longshore unionism, see Eric Arnesen, “‘It Aint Like They Do in New Orleans’: Race Relations, Labor...

... to be in accord with ”evacuation,” they did not favor it in principle but only as a way to avoid riots and mob rule. Goldblatt was the number-two leader of the International Longshoreman’s and Warehouseman’s Union (ILWU),which the government considered to be a CP-led union. More- over, San Francisco CIO...

... to be in accord with ”evacuation,” they did not favor it in principle but only as a way to avoid riots and mob rule. Goldblatt was the number-two leader of the International Longshoreman’s and Warehouseman’s Union (ILWU),which the government considered to be a CP-led union. More- over, San Francisco CIO...