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Oral Histories

Ah Quon McElrath Oral History

An ILWU longshoreman remembers Pearl Harbor

Author, historian, participant in history, David Selvin passes

Bill Chester Oral History

Carl Damaso: Islands union pioneer, 1930-1950

Curtis McClain: union officer and civil rights activist, 1946-1982

Dave Thompson: Islands activist, 1946-1958

Frank Thompson: Islands organizer, 1944-1946

Harry Bridges Oral History

Jerry Tyler Oral History

Lou Goldblatt Oral History

Mary Winzig and the Powell’s Books organizing drive, 1998-2000

Mexican American Longshoremen of Local 13

Phil Lelli Oral Histroy

Remembering WWII and Pearl Harbor

Representing the Union–Sam Kagel and the Warehouse March Inland 1934-1939

Representing the Union–Sam Kagel Harry Bridges and the 1934 Strike

Sam Kagel: From War Commission Duty to Coast Arbitrator, 1942-1999

The ‘Old Left’ and the Union: Don Watson of Ship clerks Local 34

The ‘Old Left’ and the union: Jack Olson, activist and educator

The ‘Old Left’ and the union: Keith Eickman of Warehouse Local 6

The March Inland

Valerie Taylor Oral History

William Ward Oral History

  • ILWU President Willie Adams’s statement on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Los Angeles City Council votes to continue with the Main Deepening Channel Dredging project
  • New Zealand workers face serious struggle at public ports
  • ILWU Local 5 Calls for March 8th “Shop In” to help displaced Powell’s workers
  • Indoor heat kills & injures workers, so why isn’t there a law to stop it?

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