I'm for a Longshore victory in 1971 [pinback button]
Nevada City, CA: Button Works, 1971. 1.5 inch diameter pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 207685
Longshore Unions
La Estiba: voz de los puertos. Boletín de la Coordinadora Estatal de los Estibadores Portuarios. [14 issues]
Barcelona: Coordinadora Estatal de los Estibadores Portuarios, 1985-1988. Fourteen issues of the tabloid-format monthly newspaper in Spanish for stevedores, some issues unevenly toned, mild wear, one issue with stamp and return label. Numbers present are 8, 10-21, 36. More
Cat.No: 186164
Labor standard. Vol. 4 no. 2 (2002-Fall) Whole No. 11.
Tucson, AZ: Labor Standard, 2002. Single issue of the journal, which continued the Bulletin in defense of Marxism. 38 pages, 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. articles and analysis of Bush's war on Saddam Hussein, Taft-Hartley After 55 Years, Bush's threats against West Coast ILWU. Magazine continues the In Defense..... More
Cat.No: 254505
Stop extortion and racketeering on the waterfront! Fight for: a democratic ILA Convention in July, a better contract in September.
[New York]: Members of the International Longshoremen's Association, [1951]. [6p.], very good in pictorial wraps. Issued soon after Rudolph Halley's dramatic televised investigations of racketeering on New York's waterfront. Lists the demands of a rank and file group within the union, which may have had good reason to remain anonymous..... More
Cat.No: 174395
The Transport Worker: issued by and for rank & file seamen, teamsters, longshoremen, railroad, airline, warehouse and allied workers [two issues: No. 3 and 6]
San Francisco: The Transport Worker, 1973-74. Two issues of the newsletter, one 7x8.5 inches, the other 8.5x14 inches, the latter one with a stain on the cover sheet. Updates on negotiations and activism within the various relevant unions. More
Cat.No: 250052
The Transport Worker: issued by and for rank & file seamen, teamsters, longshoremen, railroad, airline, warehouse and allied workers. No. 6
San Francisco: The Transport Worker, 1974. 6 page newsletter, 8.5x14 inches,folded for mailing, minor wear. Updates on negotiations and activism within the various relevant unions. More
Cat.No: 250053
Union democracy in action [twelve issues]
New York: Union Democracy in Action, 1961-64. Twelve issues of the rank and file reform newsletter; 4 to 20 pages per issue, 9x12 inches; first issue folded with a closed edge tear, another with pen notation, otherwise generally very good. Numbers present are 1, 4, 6-15. Coverage of cases related..... More
Cat.No: 250050
West Coast Ports Shutdown / No peace / May Day 2008 / No work! [pinback button]
n.p. Port Workers' May Day Organizing Committee, 2008. 2.5 inch pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 249401
Wage earners meet the depression
Austin: The University of Texas, 1935. Paperback. 105p., wraps, very good condition. Study of Electricians and Longshore workers in Houston, Texas. Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences, study no. 15. More
Cat.No: 106083
In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of California. In the matter of Harry Renton Bridges on habeas corpus. Communist party of the United States of America, by William Z. Foster, its National Chairman, and Earl Browder, its General Secretary, applicant for intervention. Memorandum of law in support of motion to intervene in the matter of Harry Renton Bridges on habeas corpus
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. 63p., wraps rather worn and mildly soiled with a few small splash stains and light foxing, tear along part of spine. Laid in is a sample resolution in support of Bridges, with several paragraphs of boilerplate text and a blank space for the name of the sponsoring..... More
Cat.No: 136684
In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of California. In the matter of Harry Renton Bridges on habeas corpus. Communist party of the United States of America, by William Z. Foster, its National Chairman, and Earl Browder, its General Secretary, applicant for intervention. Memorandum of law in support of motion to intervene in the matter of Harry Renton Bridges on habeas corpus
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. 63p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps slightly browned, date penned on front wrap, front wrap lightly foxed along top edge else good condition. More
Cat.No: 163839
In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of California. In the matter of Harry Renton Bridges on habeas corpus. Communist party of the United States of America, by William Z. Foster, its National Chairman, and Earl Browder, its General Secretary, applicant for intervention. Memorandum of law in support of motion to intervene
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. 63p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps evenly browned and mildly foxed with a few small splash stains, staples rusted else good condition. More
Cat.No: 192586
Waterfront workers of New Orleans; race, class, and politics, 1863-1923
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. xii, 353p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 39706
The real target: - Hiring halls - Wage increases - No speedup - No discrimination - Job conditions
San Francisco: Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense Committee, [195-?]. Four panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches folded size, fold-creased paper browned, pencil notation on front wrap else very good condition. Argues that the prosecutions of Harry Bridges and others were cover for a broader anti-labor campaign. More
Cat.No: 74048
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
Oakland: PM Press, 2021. Paperback. vii-xvi, 323p., 6x9 inches, wraps, illus., like new. Ben Fletcher was a Black member of the IWW and organized the Philadelphia water front in the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union. More
Cat.No: 261509
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
Oakland: PM Press, 2021. Hardcover. vii-xvi, 323p., 6x9 inches, boards, illus., like new, with author's inscription "Soidarity!" Ben Fletcher was a Black member of the IWW and organized the Philadelphia water front in the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union. More
Cat.No: 261510
Breakfast with Harry
San Francisco: the Committee, 2003. [40p.], very good in pictorial wraps. Program booklet for a memorial held on what would have been Bridges' 102nd birthday. More
Cat.No: 178157
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Red baiters vs. porkchops. Shipowner throws red herring into C.M.U. [caption for illustration]
San Pedro, CA: Seamen's Club, Communist Party, 1947. Leaflet, 8.5x14 inches, mimeographed on one side only, two illustrations with extensive text, slightly browned with minor edgewear. For maritime worker unity. More
Cat.No: 67547
October heat
San Francisco: Germinal Press, 1979. 250p., first edition, slightly shelfworn dj. Left wing detective fiction. A superb dissection of California labor and politics in the 1930s, entwining murder with the organization of San Francisco's waterfront and Upton Sinclair's gubernatorial campaign. More
Cat.No: 5918
The great San Francisco General Strike. The story of the West Coast Strike--the Bay Counties' General Strike and the Maritime Workers' Strike.
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. Pamphlet. 79, [i]p., orange wraps slightly faded and worn, small chip on front wrap else good condition, 4.75x6.75 inches. *Seidman D320. Slobodek p. 37. More
Cat.No: 82
The great San Francisco General Strike. The story of the West Coast Strike--the Bay Counties' General Strike and the Maritime Workers' Strike.
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. Pamphlet. 79, [i]p., grey wraps slightly worn, residue for address label on front wrap else good condition. *Seidman D320. Slobodek p. 37. More
Cat.No: 43288
The great San Francisco General Strike. The story of the West Coast Strike--the Bay Counties' General Strike and the Maritime Workers' Strike.
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. Pamphlet. 79, [i]p., orange wraps, pen date on front wrap else very good condition. *Seidman D320. Slobodek p. 37. More
Cat.No: 104953
Biracial unions on Galveston's waterfront, 1865-1925
Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2007. Hardcover. [vi], 253p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 243097
The specter of Communism in Hawaii
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. Hardcover. xiii, 257p., dj. As new in publisher's shrink wrap. More
Cat.No: 49338
How the union works
[San Francisco]: ILWU, 2017. Five-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 243484