The collection comprises the papers of Asher Harer, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Action, as well as a trade unionist and anti-Vietnam War activist. It includes correspondence, photographs, reports, resolutions, minutes, notes, study guides, flyers, newsletters, leaflets, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.

Asher Harer (1912-2004) was a lifelong unionist and labor, civil rights, and anti-war activist who was born in Calexico, Imperial County, California. In the 1930s he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend college but instead started working in the culinary industry, which led to his involvement with San Francisco's culinary unions as they worked to establish a unified organization.

7 boxes (cartons)

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