Series 1: Correspondence.
Subseries 1.1: Correspondence to and from union locals.
Local 1: La Conner (Washington) Cannery Workers, 1941-1942, 1946-1947
Local 2: Blaine Cannery Workers (Custer, Washington), 1938-1942, 1946-1947,
Local 3: Grays Harbor and Seattle, Washington, 1939-1942, 1945-1953
Local 4: Reef Netters (Bellingham, Washington), 1939-1942, 1946-1947
Local 5: Point Roberts Cannery Workers (Bellingham, Washington), 1940-1941
Local 6: Bellingham Cannery Workers (Bellingham, Washington), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 7: Fish Reduction and Saltery Workers (Seattle, Washington), 1939-1940, 1945-1947
Local 8: Columbia River Area Fish Workers (Hammond, Oregon), 1939-1942
Local 9: Newport Beach (California) Cannery Workers, 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 10: Copper River Cannery Workers (Cordova, Alaska), 1940-1942
Local 11: La Conner (Washington) Gill Netters, 1939-1942, 1946-1947
Local 12: Everett Gill Netters (East Standwood, Washington), 1939-1941
Local 14: Conway Gill Netters (Washington), 1941-1942
Local 15: Sequim, Washington, 1939-1940
Local 17: Cannery Workers, Anacortes, Washington, 1940-1941, 1946-1947
Local 18: Everett Cannery Workers (Washington), 1939-1942
Local 19: Umpqua (Reedsport, Oregon), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 20: Bellingham Gill Netters (Washington), 1941-1942
Local 21: Depoe Bay (Oregon), 1940-1942, 1946
Local 22: Tillamook (Oregon), 1940-1942
Local 23: Siletz River (Kernville, Oregon), 1940-1942, 1945-1946
Local 24: Siuslaw (Cushman, Oregon), 1940-1942
Local 25: Cook Inlet Cannery Workers (Anchorage, Alaska), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 26: Waldport (Oregon), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 27: Astoria (Oregon), 1940-1941
Local 28: Coquille (Bandon, Oregon), 1940-1942
Local 29: South Bend (Washington), 1940-1942
Local 30: Ketchikan (Alaska), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 31: Quillayute (La Push, Washington), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 32: Aberdeen (Washington), 1940-1942, 1946-1947
Local 33: San Pedro (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1951
Local 34: San Francisco (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1951
Local 35: Pittsburgh (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1951
Local 36: Newport Beach (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1948
Local 37: San Diego (California), 1940-1941
Local 38: Eureka (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1951
Local 39: Crescent City (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1950
Local 40: Fort Bragg (California), 1941-1942, 1946-1950
Local 41: Moss Landing (California), 1946
Local 42: Naselle (Washington), 1941-1942, 1946
Local 43: Grays Harbor Trollers (Westport, Washington), 1941-1942
Local 44: Nehalem (Oregon), 1941-1942, 1944-1946
Local 45: Point Orford (Oregon), -1942, 1946
Local 46: Bristol Bay Cannery Workers (Fortuna Ledge, Alaska), 1945-1947, 1949-1952
Local 47: Lower Cook Inlet Cannery Workers (Anchorage, Alaska), 1946
Local 48: Winchester Bay (Oregon), 1946
Local 49: Tidewater (Oregon), 1941-1942, 1946-1948
Local 50: Otter Trawlers Union (Astoria, Oregon), 1946-1947
Local 51: West Sound (Washinton), 1946
Local 52: Bodega Bay (California), 1945-1950
Local 53: Otter Trawlers Union (Seattle, Washington), 1945-1952
Local 54: Grays Harbor Cannery Workers (Aberdeen, Washington), 1946-1947
Local 55: Wrangell (Alaska), 1946-1947
Local 56: Juneau (Alaska), 1946-1947
Local 57: United Trollers of Alaska (Ketchikan, Alaska), 1946-1947
Local 58: Sitka (Alaska), 1945-1947
Local 59: Westport (Washington), 1946-1947
Local 61: Newport (Oregon), 1946-1947
Local 62: North Bend (Oregon), 1946-1947
Local 63: Erie (Pennsylvania), 1945-1947
Local 64: Corpus Christie (Texas), 1946-1947
Local 67: Atlantic Branch (Atlantic, North Carolina), 1947
Local 68: Southport (North Carolina), 1947
Local 73: Port Orford (Oregon), 1949
Local 74: Half Moon Bay (California), 1950
Local 75: Martinez (California), 1950-1951
Local 100: United Trollers of Alaska, 1948-1950
Communications with miscellaneous IFAWA locals, 1948-1952
Subseries 1.2: Correspondence to and from IFAWA offices and officials.
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IFAWA Executive Board, 1949-1950
IFAWA Northern California Council, 1949-1950
IFAWA Northwest Council, 1949
IFAWA correspondence with CIO national office, 1948-1950
Communications with international IFAWA office in Seattle, 1948-1950
John Broman (editor), 1946-1947
Joseph Greenhalgh (representative, North Carolina), 1946-1947
Martin Hegeberg, 1942-1944
C.F. Henne (representative, Tidewater, Oregon), 1944-1946
J.F. Jurich (president of IFAWA), 1939-1947
Jeff Kibre, 1940-1948
George Lane (secretary-treasurer), 1940
W.C. Mason (Virginia representative), 1947
Myron Dean (Alaska representative), 1947
Oscar Rodin, 1946
Lloyd Walters, 1946-1947
Walter Wassinkari, 1946
John Weise (IFAWA representative, Secretary of Westward Alaska Fisheries Council), 1945-1950
IFAWA representatives, assorted, 1945-1950
Subseries 1.3: Correspondence to and from other unions.
Alaska Fishermen's Union, 1939-1942, 1946-1951
Salmon Purse Seiners Union (Canada), 1940-1942
Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union, 1939-1942, 1946-1953
Copper River and Prince William Sound Fishermen's Union, 1939-1942
Cordova District Fisheries Union, 1946-1954
Crab Fishermen's Association (Westport, Washington), 1946
Fishermen's Union Cooperative Marketing Agency (San Francisco, California), 1951
Deep Fishermen's Union (Seattle, Washington), 1942, 1947
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America, 1946
Gulf Coast Sea Food Producers and Trappers Association, Inc., 1940-1941, 1945
International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, 1939-1943, 1947, 1949
International Woodworkers of America, 1939-1943, 1946, 1948-1949
Pacific Coast Crab Fishermen's Association, 1945-1947
Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union, 1939-1940
Puget Sound Gill Netters Association, 1949-1950
Puget Sound Shoreworkers, 1949
San Francisco Purse Seine Boat Owners Association, 1949
United Automobile Workers, 1941-1942
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America, 1939-1942
United Fishermen adn Allied Workers Union (Vancouver, British Columbia), 1946-1952
United Fishermen's Union, California District, 1939-1940
United Fishermen's Union of the Pacific, 1939-1940
United Fishermen's Union, Puget Sound District, 1939-1942
United Trollers of Alaska, 1939-1942
International Trade Union Groups, 1949
Trade Unions, miscellaneous, 1945-1950
Subseries 1.4: Correspondence to and from Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) offices, officers, and committees. 1938-1949
Scope and Content Note
Subseries 1.5: Correspondence, assorted boards, committees, councils, and Officers (in alphabetical order). circa 1936-1952
Scope and Content Note
"A Policy for Fisheries - Policy for Peace," 1949
Alaska Coordinating Committee, 1949-1950
Alaska Negotiating Committee, 1946
Alaska Organizer, 1936-1940
Alaska Salmon Industry, Incorporated, 1943-1946
Anderson, Gladstein...(law firm), 1946-1951
Army Engineers and Coast Guard, 1948
Board of State Harbor Commissioners, 1946-1952
Boat Owners Associations, 1940-1942
Bridges - Robertson - Schmidt Defence Committee, 1950
California Department of Public Health, 1946
Regarding Charter, 1938-1939
Coastwise Bottom Fish Coordinating Committee, 1949
Regarding Cook Inlet contract, 1947
Department of Justice, 1949
Division of Labor Statistics - United States and California, 1946-1949
"Drag (Market) correspondence, 1951
Regarding Fish and Game Bills, 1948-1949
Regarding foreign encroachments, 1942
Floating cannery information, 1946
Regarding Florida fishermen - organization, 1938-1939
Regarding Indian residents of Alaska - claim, 1945
IFAWA Convention, 1948
International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, 1950-1951
John Covich case, Alaska Fishermen's Union, 1939-1940
Legislative communications, 1946-1949
Oregon Fishermen's Council, 1940-1942
Pacific Coast and Alask Fisheries, 1947-1949
Maritime Federation of the Pacific, 1939-1941
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (United States House of Representatives), 1946
"Market - Drag, other ports and misc," 1950
Regarding Sacramento River (received by Phil Dirks), 1951
Sardines, 1949-1950
Shark, 1947-1951
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding tuna and crab operation, 1951-1952
Washington State Fishermen's Council, 1941-1942
Westward Alaska Fisheries Council, 1948
A-H, miscellaneous, 1946
I-P, miscellaneous, 1945-1947
Miscellaneous IFAWA correspondence (some regarding preparation of fish study), 1944-1953
Circular letters, 1947-1949
Wires received and sent, 1946-1948
Series 2: Minutes.
Alaska Fisheries Union Strategy Committee, 1946
Coastwise Shoreworkers Conference, 1947
Coordinating Committee, Washington, D.C., 1939-1942
Crab Fishermen meetings, Local 34, 1950-1951
Dragboat Fishermen meetings, Local 34, 1950-1952
Executive Board, Local 34, 1950-1951
Fish and Game Commission, California, 1949
Grievance Committee, Local 34, 1948-1951
Membership meetings, Local 34, 1950-1952
Political Action Committee, Local 34,
Northern California Joint Council, 1950
IFAWA International Executive Board, 1948-1950
Joint Action Committee, Northern California, 1950-1951
Legislative meeting, 1946
Salmon Fishermen, Local 34, 1950
Sardine Fishermen, Local 34, 1949-1950
Shark Industry meetings, Local 34, 1949
Washington State Industrial Union Council, 1948
Series 3: Agreements. 1948-1951
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Series 4: Grievances. 1946-1950
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Series 5: Disputes. 1940, 1945-1947
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Series 6: Legal Matters. 1939-1950
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Series 7: Membership and Elections. 1946-1954
Scope and Content Note
Series 8: Sardine Studies and Other Fish Studies. 1944-1950
Summary of Information on the Condition of the Pacific Coast Sardine Population, compiled by Bureau of Marine Fisheries, California Fish and Game, May, 1947 1947
Sardine Study: Work Sheets and Exhibits, 1947
Report on the Sardine Industry of California as of March '48 by Willis H. Rich, 1948
The California Sardine Fishery: Review and Analysis of the Biological, Statistical and Environmental Information about the California Sardine, prepared by Paul G. Pinsky, Wayne Ball, California CIO Council Research Department, April, 1948, 1948
Reports on the Sardine Fishery by J. Neyman (California CIO Council Research Department), May 1948 1948
Sardine Study: excerpts and notes, 1948
Sardine Research: notes and work sheets, 1948-1949
Sardine Advisory Committee, 1948-1949
Sardines: information regarding season, 1948-1950
Commercial fishing studies, 1946-1949
United States Department of the Interior, Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries: Meeting of the Coordinators Fishery Industry Consultants, October 23 and 24, 1944 (transcript), 1944
IFAWA Fish Study, original draft, 1946
The Fisheries of California: The Industry - The Men - Their Union (prepared by California CIO Council Research Department, January 1947), 1947
Tuna fact-finding material, 1948-1950
Effect of the Southern Initiative (arguments against initiative which would prohibit net fishing within the 3 mile limit), 1948
Coordinated Plans for Management of the Fisheries of the Pacific Coast (submitted to the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission by the Research Departments of Washington, Oregon, and California, April 5, 1948), 1948
Poll on salmon prices, 1950
Series 9: State and Federal Agency Files. circa 1946-1952
California Department of Employment and Department of Industrial Relations (state and federal), 1946-1952
California Fish and Game Commission, 1946-1953
Washington State Department of Fisheries (press releases), 1951-1953
United States Coast Guard notices to mariners 12th district, 1948-1950
United States Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco Office (public notices), 1949-1951
United States Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, 1947-1950
Series 10: Assorted Publications, Notices, Reports, and Press Releases (various organizations). circa 1944-1952
CIO Maritime Committee memos and circulars, 1947
CIO publications, 1947-1949
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CIO Research Reports, 1950
Leaflets and notices to Local 34 members, 1948-1951
Press releases - Local 34 and ILWU News, 1946-1952
Flyers sent to members (one relating to the anti-trust case in the mid-1940s and one for members of Local 38 in Eureka relating to a dispute between IFAWA and the Butcher's Union), 1946-1950
Assorted newspaper clippings, 1949
Strike publicity - Dragboat Crews Local 34, 1951
Chamber of Commerce (California), 1947-1948
Crab Fishermen, 1949
Credit Union, 1950
Farm Labor Consumer Association, 1946
Form letters regarding organization of Santa Cruz Division, 1950
Save the Fisheries Committee, 1948
Sardines, assorted, circa 1942-1950
Miscellaneous reports, 1946-1952
Series 11: Financial. circa 1944-1952
Subseries 11.1: Assessments. circa 1948-1951
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Subseries 11.2: Fish Market Accounts. circa 1948-1951
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Subseries 11.3: Other Financial. circa 1948-1951
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Series 12: Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America Union (FTA). circa 1944-1952
Cannery elections, 1945
Agricultural organizing, 1947-1948
Asparagus organizing drive,
FTA correspondence and memos, 1949
FTA merger minutes, 1945
FTA Cannery Council, 1944-1947
FTA Local 64 agreements (Van Camp Sea Food), 1945-1951
Assorted agreements and contracts, 1945-1949
Statements regarding legislation (including Taft-Hartley Act), 1945-1949
International office, assorted statements, 1949
Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Sasuly (FTA Washington representative), assorted FTA statements (some regarding Taft-Hartley Act), 1949
Legal reports, statements, 1947-1950
AFL-contracts, wage adjustment, National Labor Relations Board (reports, communications), 1945
Briefs of the Monterey Fish Processors Association and the San Francisco Sardine Association, 1946
Puget Sound negotiations (correspondence regarding cannery workers' agreements, copy of agreement), 1947
Opinion and award in O'Dwyer and Mets, Incorporated and FTA Workers Local 78, 1948
Publicity scripts for radio programs and press releases, 1946-1949
FTA publications and reports, 1944-1949
Constitutions, by-laws, resolutions, 1946-1952
FTA guides, manuals, pamphlets, 1943-1949
FTA-CIO flyers, leaflets, newsletters, circa 1946
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American Federation of Labor flyers, leaflets, newsletters, circa 1946
Scope and Content Note
Program for Cannery Workers Dance (1937), Stockton; Sign for Victory: FTA Songs; and official secret ballot sample, circa 1937-1946
Assorted union newspapers documenting cannery organizating by the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor, circa 1946-1949
Photographs (2): Local 64, FTA-CIO, San Diego scene with families and Santa Claus; Local 82, FTA-CIO, Modesto fundraising dinner, circa 1937-1946