San Francisco: ILWU, 1990, 2000. Two 2.25 inch diameter pins, one from 1990 and one from a decade later, marking the martyrs of the 1934 maritime strike. More about ILWU Bloody Thursday [two pinback buttons
Cat.No: 238828
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 about La Estiba: voz de los puertos. BoletÃn de la Coordinadora Estatal de los Estibadores Portuarios....
Cat.No: 186164
[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 about Stop extortion and racketeering on the waterfront! Fight for: a democratic ILA Convention in...
Cat.No: 174395
Brooklyn: Thirlmere Books, 2016. Paperback. vii, 293p., illustrated with vignette period photography integrated in text; softbound in 9x6 inch glossy decorated wraps. Covers bear light creasing, terminal leaf has a crumpled corner, a good clean copy. More about Burning Bridges; America's 20-Year Crusade to Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges. With a Foreword...
Cat.No: 228859
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 about Wage earners meet the depression
Cat.No: 106083
New York: the Committee, 1945. Pamphlet. 15p., wraps slightly abraded else very good condition, 5x7 inches. *Slobodek p. 184. Seidman A102. More about The Supreme Court on the Bridges Case. Concurring opinion of Justice Frank Murphy. Introduction...
Cat.No: 40699
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. 63p., wraps rather worn and mildly soiled, 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 organization, on a folded sheet of 8.5x11 inch sheet..... More about In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of...
Cat.No: 136684
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. 63p., wraps slightly browned. More about In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of...
Cat.No: 163839
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. 63p., mildly foxed wraps, interior very good. More about In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of...
Cat.No: 192586
N.pl. n.pub. 1943. Pamphlet. 63p., wraps slightly browned, two holes are roughly punched in left margin, else good condition, 6x9 inches. More about In the Southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern district of...
Cat.No: 218919
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. xii, 353p., very good condition in like dj. More about Waterfront workers of New Orleans; race, class, and politics, 1863-1923
Cat.No: 39706
San Francisco, CA: United States District Court for the Northern District of California Historical Society, 1993. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet folded to make 4p. brochure, photo of Bridges on cover. Program for a commemorative conference with several speakers; very brief history of the Bridges trials included. More about The trials of Harry Bridges presented at US District Court, San Francisco, May 27, 1993
Cat.No: 134701
San Francisco: Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense Committee, [195-?]. Four panel brochure, paper browned, 5.5x8.5 inches folded size. Argues that the prosecutions of Harry Bridges and others were cover for a broader anti-labor campaign. More about The real target: - Hiring halls - Wage increases - No speedup - No discrimination - Job conditions
Cat.No: 74048
Everett, Washington: The Working Press, 1975. Paperback. vii, 128p., wraps slightly browned, previous owner's name on half-title page else good condition. More about Dock strike; history of the 1934 waterfront strike in Portland, Oregon
Cat.No: 3399
San Francisco: Communist Party of California, [1946?]. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition, 5.25x8.25 inches. "A Party member who also belongs to Local 6 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union attacks capitalism as causing depression and layoffs and appeals to workers to join the Party." *Seidman C66. More about Let's get off the dime. Cover design and illustrations by Carl Williams
Cat.No: 55361
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. hardcover. vi, 198p., illus., first edition, very good condition, dj. More about The waterfront writers; the literature of work
Cat.No: 221
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 about Breakfast with Harry
Cat.No: 178157
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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 about Red baiters vs. porkchops. Shipowner throws red herring into C.M.U. [caption for illustration
Cat.No: 67547
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 about October heat
Cat.No: 5918
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. Hardcover. xiii, 257p., very good condition in like dj. More about The specter of Communism in Hawaii
Cat.No: 49338
San Francisco: International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union and National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards, [1952]. Leaflet, 8.5x11 inches, printed on both sides, paper browned. Attack on Lundeberg's SUP for gangsterism. More about Who said 'Iron Curtain'? The following paid advertisement was offered to the San Francisco...
Cat.No: 80570
San Francisco: I.L.W.U., May, 1955. Pamphlet. 14p., wraps, illus., very good condition, "Summarizes all attempts to deport Harry Bridges up to 1955." *Slobodek p. 183. More about The everlasting Bridges case
Cat.No: 4143
San Francisco: ILWU, 1997. Pamphlet. 87p., very good in staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus. More about The ILWU story, six decades of militant unionism
Cat.No: 102401
San Francisco: ILWU, 1963. Paperback. 88p., wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches, illus., very good condition. More about The ILWU story, three decades of militant unionism. Second edition, revised to March, 1963
Cat.No: 8841
San Francisco: International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, 1949. Paperback. 108p., staplebound pamphlet, illus., evenly toned, lightly soiled. Faint crease vertically to front cover. More about Report from Europe, by the Rank and File Delegation of International Longshoremen's &...
Cat.No: 26824
