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Inventory of the Labor Herald Photograph Collection No. 12
1988/109
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Title: Labor Herald Photograph Collection No. 12
Accession number: 1988/109
Creator:
California CIO Industrial Union Council
Extent: 1 box (27 folders)
Repository:
San Francisco State University. Labor Archives & Research Center
San Francisco, California 94132
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Center's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives & Research Center. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing
to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Labor Archives & Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Labor Herald Photograph Collection No. 12, 1988/109, Labor Archives & Research Center,
San Francisco State University.
This photograph collection was generated by the
Labor Herald, the official newspaper of the
California CIO Industrial Union Council. The collection was donated to the Labor Archives
and Research Center by Paul Chown in 1988. Mr. Chown, a longtime member and official of
the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) also served as the
newspaper's last editor from January 1952 until the suspension of publication in May 1953.
This collection was processed by Carol Cuenod, under the direction of Karen Lewis, January-February, 1992.
The building of the California CIO, beginning in the mid-1930s, was a period of tremendous
union activity and organizing. The
Labor Herald, published weekly, recorded CIO activity
from 1937 to 1953. The paper began as a voice for the CIO in Northern California; in 1941,
it extended its coverage to all of California. A Southern California edition and a Southern
California editor was added in 1945. Unions made per capita payments to support the
newspaper and this provided a subscription to each member. The California CIO, under such
leaders as Harry Bridges and Philip Connelly, reflected progressive, left-wing leadership. The
photo collection records its activities, especially during the 1940s, the World War II years and
the tumultuous period after the war which saw bitter strikes and a major political battle against
the Taft-Hartley Bill.
The California CIO and its support to the
Labor Herald was severely cut back in 1949 when
the CIO leveled charges of communist-dominated leadership against eleven national unions as
well as the California CIO. In November 1949, these unions were expelled from the CIO.
Their charters were lifted along with that of the California CIO.
The Labor Herald continued
publication with some support coming from those unions which survived the subsequent raids
by AFL or newly-chartered CIO unions. After 1952, Harold Rossman, the paper's editor
since 1941, departed and his position was filled on a voluntary basis by Paul Chown until the
Labor Herald ceased publication in May 1953.
The collection consists of 280 photographs covering the decades 1930s-1960s; the bulk is from
the 1940s. It represents a visual record of the leaders, meetings, strikes, World War II
activities, Labor Day parades, and anti-Taft-Hartley demonstrations of major CIO unions in
California.
The collection is divided into two series: 1) portraits of individuals or small groups of
individuals, arranged alphbetically by the key figure of the photograph (others are cross-referenced), and 2) subjects, according
to subject headings determined by the archivist.
There are 144 photographs of CIO leaders and a few legislators supported by these unions such
as Culbert Olson and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Among the 136 photographs arranged by
subject, two events are well documented: the UE strike at US Motors, Los Angeles, 1946,
with nine photos by Otto Rothschild; 24 photographs of the Labor Day Parade, San Francisco
Civic Center Plaza, 1947, with floats and banners stating an anti-Taft Hartley Bill theme.
Most of the images are 8 x 10 glossy prints; many are marked with red pencil used by
newspaper editors. There are 27 folders: 10 for individuals, 17 for subjects. All the
photographs are housed in one document box.
This guide includes a folder-by-folder listing, enhanced by descriptive entries. There are also
identified individuals from the photographs in the subject folders which are listed
alphabetically and cross-referenced to the subject folder.
Individuals in Subject Photographs
Addes, George
Folder 11: UAW
Addiego, Frank
Folder 11: UAW
Bell, Lily
Folder 26: WOMEN
Bingham, Brad
Folder 14: UE
Brant, Carl (?)
Folder 14: UE
Bridges, Harry
Folder 18: MARITIME
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Eugene Burke
Folder 18: MARITIME
Cayton, Revels
Folder 26: WOMEN
Connelly, Philip
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Fagerhaugh, Ole
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Fernandes, Johnnie
Folder 11: UAW
Frankensteen, Richard
Folder 11: UAW
Gillespie, William
Folder 11: UAW
Goldmann, William
Folder 11: UAW
Govea, J. G.
Folder 11: UAW
Halling, Bjorne
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Heide, Ruby
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Horne, Lena
Folder 26: WOMEN
Jelusich, Al
Folder 11: UAW
Jenkins, Dave
Folder 12: CALIF.CIO
Folder 22: PARADES--LABOR DAY 1947
Johnson, Joe
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Jones, Cleo
Folder 11: UAW
Kibre, Jeff
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
King, Jean McKillup (?)
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Lynden, Richard
Folder 18: MARITIME
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Michener, Lew
Folder 11: UAW
Miranda, Fred
Folder 11: UAW
Owens, Dayton
Folder 11: UAW
Paton, Eugene
Folder 18: MARITIME
Patterson, James
Folder 11: UAW
Pettit, Eugene
Folder 11: UAW
Pinsky, Paul
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Poohar, Nicholas
Folder 14: UE
Povlichenko, Ludmilla
Folder 26: WOMEN
Quintell, Fred
Folder 11: UAW
Roberts, Holland
Folder 22: PARADES--LABOR DAY 1947
Robertson, J. R. "Bob"
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Roesch, Paul
Folder 11: UAW
Schmidt, Henry
Folder 18: MARITIME
Schnur, Paul
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Seguri, Rose
Folder 26: WOMEN
Sentna, Bill
Folder 14: UE
Stewart, Tom
Folder 11: UAW
Thimmes, James
Folder 12: CALIF. CIO
Folder 25: UNIONS - GENERAL
Thomas, R. J.
Folder 11: UAW