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ILWU headquarters in San Francisco. The ILWU admitted African Americans in the 1930s, and during World War II its San Francisco section alone had an estimated 800 black members, at a time when most San Francisco unions excluded black workers and resisted implementation of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 (1941) against racial discrimination in the US defense industry. [8]
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike (also known as the 1934 West Coast longshoremen's strike, as well as a number of variations on these names) lasted 83 days, and began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every US West Coast port walked out.
Jack Hall - ILWU Local 142 Jack Wayne Hall (February 28, 1915 – January 2, 1971) was an American labor organizer and trade unionist. He was the Hawaii Regional Director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union .
Harry Bridges (28 July 1901 – 30 March 1990) was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several chapters in forming a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), expanding members to workers in warehouses, and led it for the next 40 years.
After the broadcast was cancelled, he became an organizer for the ILWU, and by the late 1950s, he was a full-time longshore worker and regular member of Local 19. [1] [5] During the mid-1950s, Tyler left the Communist Party due to political disagreements and concerns over the lack of internal democracy within the party. [2]
During his time as president, Lelli worked closely with Local 23 business agent George Ginnis to modernize and attract commerce towards the Port of Tacoma. [4] He also funded a project to write a book about the history of Local 23 through a grant from the Washington Commission for the Humanities. [5] He retired in 1993. [3]
The modern organization was formed in 1882, when a number of locals who had supported the Cincinnati, Ohio local in a strike earlier that year met in St. Louis, Missouri, to reestablish a national organization.
Railroad shop workers from the machinists, blacksmiths and plumbers met in St. Louis, Missouri in 1920 after a number of local plumbers' railroad unions defected to the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers. Although the workers could not agree on which union should have jurisdiction over the work, the workers did agree to form the Federated Railroad ...