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Finding Aid to the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America Records, circa 1938-1953
Collection number: BANC MSS 75/6 c
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Processed by:
- Lara Michels
© 2014 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Interational Fishermen and Allied Workers of America records,
Date (inclusive): circa 1938-1953
Collection Number: BANC MSS 75/6 c
Creator: International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America
Extent:
Number of containers: 19 cartons, 2 cardfile boxes, 1 oversize box (linear feet: 26)
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Records of the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America, a trade union on the Pacific Coast of the United States.
The collection documents the activities of the union from its founding in 1939 through the early 1950s.
Languages Represented:
English.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America records, BANC MSS 75/6 c, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America--Archives
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
American Federation of Labor
Labor unions--Pacific Coast
Fishers--Pacific Coast
Fishers--Labor unions--Pacific Coast
Fishers--Labor unions--United States
Cannery workers--Pacific Coast
Cannery workers--Labor unions--Pacific Coast
Fisheries--Pacific Coast
Labor disputes--Pacific Coast
Administrative Information
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Acquisition Information
The International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America records were gifted to the Bancroft Library by the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union in 1973.
Processing Information
Processed by Lara Michels in January 2104.
Biographical Information
The International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) was a trade union on the Pacific Coast of the United States
active from 1939 until the late 1950s. IFAWA grew out of an earlier amalgamated fishermen's union, the United Fishermen's
Union (UFU), which was established in 1937 as an affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In May of 1939, the
UFU and three other CIO-affiliated fishermen's unions merged to form the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America.
IFAWA was also CIO-affiliated and its emergence was spurred by the rise of industrial fishing (with a focus on canning) and
by a national movement of industrial unionism during the 1930s. IFAWA was one of many unions representing different kinds
of workers on the West Coast's waterfront, a center of radical unionism during the 1930s and 1940s. IFAWA brought to fruition
the idea of a Pacific coast union that would represent all workers from catch to cannery in the fisheries industries in California,
Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. For the first time, fisheries workers joined together across the craft boundaries that had
dominated West Coast fishermen's organizing since the late-nineteenth century. At its peak, IFAWA represented approximately
30,000 workers. IFAWA's early years coincided with World War II, which brought challenges in the form of changing demographics,
the drafting of many of the union's members into the military, and increasing suspicion of the union's Communist Party ties.
In 1950, IFAWA became one of eleven unions expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations, in part because of its
connections to the Communist Party. During the same year, IFAWA merged with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records of the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America union document the activities and relationships of
the union from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. The collection is organized into twelve series: correspondence; minutes;
agreements; grievances; disputes; legal matters; membership and elections; sardine and other fish studies; publications, notices,
reports, and press releases; financial; and Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of American Union (FTA). The correspondence
series consists of correspondence with the union's various locals; correspondence to and from union officials and offices;
correspondence to and from other unions; correspondence to and from Congress of Industrial Organization officers and offices;
and other correspondence with assorted boards, committees and offices. Minutes documents meetings of a range of boards, committees
and councils though most are from Local 34 in San Francisco. Included in the Legal Matters series are materials on the IFAWA's
anti-trust case (1946-1952). Membership records include lists of members and an index card file of members. The collection
also includes (in the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America series) materials relating to the battles
between the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor over cannery workers in the mid-1940s.
There are also items relating to disputes between the FTA and IFAWA in 1945. Financial records consist mainly of fish market
account files and assessment files (primarily for Local 34).
Series 1:
Correspondence.
Physical Description:
Carton 1-8; carton 9, folder 1-24
Subseries 1.1:
Correspondence to and from union locals.
Physical Description:
Carton 1-3
Carton 1, Folder 1-3
Local 1: La Conner (Washington) Cannery Workers,
1941-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 1, Folder 4-6
Local 2: Blaine Cannery Workers (Custer, Washington),
1938-1942,
1946-1947,
Carton 1, Folder 7-13
Local 3: Grays Harbor and Seattle, Washington,
1939-1942,
1945-1953
Carton 1, Folder 14-16
Local 4: Reef Netters (Bellingham, Washington),
1939-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 1, Folder 17
Local 5: Point Roberts Cannery Workers (Bellingham, Washington),
1940-1941
Carton 1, Folder 18-20
Local 6: Bellingham Cannery Workers (Bellingham, Washington),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 1, Folder 21-23
Local 7: Fish Reduction and Saltery Workers (Seattle, Washington),
1939-1940,
1945-1947
Carton 1, Folder 24-25
Local 8: Columbia River Area Fish Workers (Hammond, Oregon),
1939-1942
Carton 1, Folder 26-28
Local 9: Newport Beach (California) Cannery Workers,
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 1, Folder 29
Local 10: Copper River Cannery Workers (Cordova, Alaska),
1940-1942
Carton 1, Folder 30-32
Local 11: La Conner (Washington) Gill Netters,
1939-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 1, Folder 33
Local 12: Everett Gill Netters (East Standwood, Washington),
1939-1941
Carton 1, Folder 34
Local 14: Conway Gill Netters (Washington),
1941-1942
Carton 1, Folder 35
Local 15: Sequim, Washington,
1939-1940
Carton 1, Folder 36-39
Local 17: Cannery Workers, Anacortes, Washington,
1940-1941,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 1
Local 18: Everett Cannery Workers (Washington),
1939-1942
Carton 2, Folder 2-3
Local 19: Umpqua (Reedsport, Oregon),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 4
Local 20: Bellingham Gill Netters (Washington),
1941-1942
Carton 2, Folder 5-6
Local 21: Depoe Bay (Oregon),
1940-1942,
1946
Carton 2, Folder 7
Local 22: Tillamook (Oregon),
1940-1942
Carton 2, Folder 8-9
Local 23: Siletz River (Kernville, Oregon),
1940-1942,
1945-1946
Carton 2, Folder 10
Local 24: Siuslaw (Cushman, Oregon),
1940-1942
Carton 2, Folder 11-13
Local 25: Cook Inlet Cannery Workers (Anchorage, Alaska),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 14-16
Local 26: Waldport (Oregon),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 17
Local 27: Astoria (Oregon),
1940-1941
Carton 2, Folder 18
Local 28: Coquille (Bandon, Oregon),
1940-1942
Carton 2, Folder 19-20
Local 29: South Bend (Washington),
1940-1942
Carton 2, Folder 21-23
Local 30: Ketchikan (Alaska),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 24-26
Local 31: Quillayute (La Push, Washington),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 27-29
Local 32: Aberdeen (Washington),
1940-1942,
1946-1947
Carton 2, Folder 30-36
Local 33: San Pedro (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1951
Carton 2, Folder 37-45
Local 34: San Francisco (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1951
Carton 3, Folder 1-4
Local 35: Pittsburgh (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1951
Carton 3, Folder 5-6
Local 36: Newport Beach (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1948
Carton 3, Folder 7
Local 37: San Diego (California),
1940-1941
Carton 3, Folder 8-13
Local 38: Eureka (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1951
Carton 3, Folder 14-18
Local 39: Crescent City (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1950
Carton 3, Folder 19-22
Local 40: Fort Bragg (California),
1941-1942,
1946-1950
Carton 3, Folder 23
Local 41: Moss Landing (California),
1946
Carton 3, Folder 24-25
Local 42: Naselle (Washington),
1941-1942,
1946
Carton 3, Folder 26
Local 43: Grays Harbor Trollers (Westport, Washington),
1941-1942
Carton 3, Folder 27-28
Local 44: Nehalem (Oregon),
1941-1942,
1944-1946
Carton 3, Folder 29-30
Local 45: Point Orford (Oregon),
-1942,
1946
Carton 3, Folder 31-33
Local 46: Bristol Bay Cannery Workers (Fortuna Ledge, Alaska),
1945-1947,
1949-1952
Carton 3, Folder 34
Local 47: Lower Cook Inlet Cannery Workers (Anchorage, Alaska),
1946
Carton 3, Folder 35
Local 48: Winchester Bay (Oregon),
1946
Carton 3, Folder 36
Local 49: Tidewater (Oregon),
1941-1942,
1946-1948
Carton 3, Folder 37
Local 50: Otter Trawlers Union (Astoria, Oregon),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 38
Local 51: West Sound (Washinton),
1946
Carton 3, Folder 39-42
Local 52: Bodega Bay (California),
1945-1950
Carton 3, Folder 43-46
Local 53: Otter Trawlers Union (Seattle, Washington),
1945-1952
Carton 3, Folder 47-48
Local 54: Grays Harbor Cannery Workers (Aberdeen, Washington),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 49
Local 55: Wrangell (Alaska),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 50-51
Local 56: Juneau (Alaska),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 52-53
Local 57: United Trollers of Alaska (Ketchikan, Alaska),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 54-55
Local 58: Sitka (Alaska),
1945-1947
Carton 3, Folder 56-57
Local 59: Westport (Washington),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 58-59
Local 61: Newport (Oregon),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 60-61
Local 62: North Bend (Oregon),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 62-63
Local 63: Erie (Pennsylvania),
1945-1947
Carton 3, Folder 64-65
Local 64: Corpus Christie (Texas),
1946-1947
Carton 3, Folder 66
Local 67: Atlantic Branch (Atlantic, North Carolina),
1947
Carton 3, Folder 67
Local 68: Southport (North Carolina),
1947
Carton 3, Folder 68
Local 73: Port Orford (Oregon),
1949
Carton 3, Folder 69
Local 74: Half Moon Bay (California),
1950
Carton 3, Folder 70
Local 75: Martinez (California),
1950-1951
Carton 3, Folder 71
Local 100: United Trollers of Alaska,
1948-1950
Carton 3, Folder 72-77
Communications with miscellaneous IFAWA locals,
1948-1952
Subseries 1.2:
Correspondence to and from IFAWA offices and officials.
Physical Description:
Carton 4; carton 5, folder 1-19
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence to and from various IFAWA offices and officials. These files are arranged in rough chronological order (though
correspondence within each folder is unarranged). The files often contain minutes, reports, and other records as well as correspondence.
Carton 4, Folder 1-2
IFAWA Executive Board,
1949-1950
Carton 4, Folder 3-4
IFAWA Northern California Council,
1949-1950
Carton 4, Folder 5
IFAWA Northwest Council,
1949
Carton 4, Folder 6
IFAWA correspondence with CIO national office,
1948-1950
Carton 4, Folder 7-8
Communications with international IFAWA office in Seattle,
1948-1950
Carton 4, Folder 9
John Broman (editor),
1946-1947
Carton 4, Folder 10-12
Joseph Greenhalgh (representative, North Carolina),
1946-1947
Carton 4, Folder 13
Martin Hegeberg,
1942-1944
Carton 4, Folder 14-15
C.F. Henne (representative, Tidewater, Oregon),
1944-1946
Carton 4, Folder 16-25
J.F. Jurich (president of IFAWA),
1939-1947
Carton 5, Folder 9
George Lane (secretary-treasurer),
1940
Carton 5, Folder 10
W.C. Mason (Virginia representative),
1947
Carton 5, Folder 11
Myron Dean (Alaska representative),
1947
Carton 5, Folder 16-17
John Weise (IFAWA representative, Secretary of Westward Alaska Fisheries Council),
1945-1950
Carton 5, Folder 18-19
IFAWA representatives, assorted,
1945-1950
Subseries 1.3:
Correspondence to and from other unions.
Physical Description:
Carton 5, folder 20-34; carton 6, folder 1-41
Carton 5, Folder 20-25
Alaska Fishermen's Union,
1939-1942,
1946-1951
Carton 5, Folder 26
Salmon Purse Seiners Union (Canada),
1940-1942
Carton 5, Folder 27-34
Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union,
1939-1942,
1946-1953
Carton 6, Folder 1
Copper River and Prince William Sound Fishermen's Union,
1939-1942
Carton 6, Folder 2-4
Cordova District Fisheries Union,
1946-1954
Carton 6, Folder 5
Crab Fishermen's Association (Westport, Washington),
1946
Carton 6, Folder 6
Fishermen's Union Cooperative Marketing Agency (San Francisco, California),
1951
Carton 6, Folder 7
Deep Fishermen's Union (Seattle, Washington),
1942,
1947
Carton 6, Folder 8
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America,
1946
Carton 6, Folder 9-10
Gulf Coast Sea Food Producers and Trappers Association, Inc.,
1940-1941,
1945
Carton 6, Folder 11-14
International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union,
1939-1943,
1947,
1949
Carton 6, Folder 15-18
International Woodworkers of America,
1939-1943,
1946,
1948-1949
Carton 6, Folder 19
Pacific Coast Crab Fishermen's Association,
1945-1947
Carton 6, Folder 20
Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union,
1939-1940
Carton 6, Folder 21
Puget Sound Gill Netters Association,
1949-1950
Carton 6, Folder 22
Puget Sound Shoreworkers,
1949
Carton 6, Folder 23
San Francisco Purse Seine Boat Owners Association,
1949
Carton 6, Folder 24
United Automobile Workers,
1941-1942
Carton 6, Folder 25
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America,
1939-1942
Carton 6, Folder 26-27
United Fishermen adn Allied Workers Union (Vancouver, British Columbia),
1946-1952
Carton 6, Folder 28-30
United Fishermen's Union, California District,
1939-1940
Carton 6, Folder 31
United Fishermen's Union of the Pacific,
1939-1940
Carton 6, Folder 32-33
United Fishermen's Union, Puget Sound District,
1939-1942
Carton 6, Folder 34
United Trollers of Alaska,
1939-1942
Carton 6, Folder 35
International Trade Union Groups,
1949
Carton 6, Folder 36-41
Trade Unions, miscellaneous,
1945-1950
Subseries 1.4:
Correspondence to and from Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) offices, officers, and committees.
1938-1949
Physical Description:
Carton 7; carton 8, folder 1-9
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with CIO officers James Carey, Allan Haywood, Chris Hennings, Philip Murray; correspondence with regional directors;
general correspondence; correspondence with the National Office of the CIO; CIO Maritime Committee correspondence; CIO state
council correspondence; CIO industrial councils correspondence; and other assorted correspondence.
Subseries 1.5:
Correspondence, assorted boards, committees, councils, and Officers (in alphabetical order).
circa 1936-1952
Physical Description:
Carton 8, folder 10-47; carton 9, folder 1-24
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence to and from various committees, councils, offices, etc.
Carton 8, Folder 10
"A Policy for Fisheries - Policy for Peace,"
1949
Carton 8, Folder 11
Alaska Coordinating Committee,
1949-1950
Carton 8, Folder 12
Alaska Negotiating Committee,
1946
Carton 8, Folder 13
Alaska Organizer,
1936-1940
Carton 8, Folder 14-15
Alaska Salmon Industry, Incorporated,
1943-1946
Carton 8, Folder 16-18
Anderson, Gladstein...(law firm),
1946-1951
Carton 8, Folder 19
Army Engineers and Coast Guard,
1948
Carton 8, Folder 20-22
Board of State Harbor Commissioners,
1946-1952
Carton 8, Folder 23
Boat Owners Associations,
1940-1942
Carton 8, Folder 24
Bridges - Robertson - Schmidt Defence Committee,
1950
Carton 8, Folder 25
California Department of Public Health,
1946
Carton 8, Folder 26
Regarding Charter,
1938-1939
Carton 8, Folder 27
Coastwise Bottom Fish Coordinating Committee,
1949
Carton 8, Folder 28
Regarding Cook Inlet contract,
1947
Carton 8, Folder 29
Department of Justice,
1949
Carton 8, Folder 30
Division of Labor Statistics - United States and California,
1946-1949
Carton 8, Folder 31
"Drag (Market) correspondence,
1951
Carton 8, Folder 32
Regarding Fish and Game Bills,
1948-1949
Carton 8, Folder 33
Regarding foreign encroachments,
1942
Carton 8, Folder 34
Floating cannery information,
1946
Carton 8, Folder 35
Regarding Florida fishermen - organization,
1938-1939
Carton 8, Folder 36
Regarding Indian residents of Alaska - claim,
1945
Carton 8, Folder 38-41
International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union,
1950-1951
Carton 8, Folder 42
John Covich case, Alaska Fishermen's Union,
1939-1940
Carton 8, Folder 43-44
Legislative communications,
1946-1949
Carton 8, Folder 45
Oregon Fishermen's Council,
1940-1942
Carton 8, Folder 46
Pacific Coast and Alask Fisheries,
1947-1949
Carton 8, Folder 47
Maritime Federation of the Pacific,
1939-1941
Carton 9, Folder 1
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (United States House of Representatives),
1946
Carton 9, Folder 2
"Market - Drag, other ports and misc,"
1950
Carton 9, Folder 3
Regarding Sacramento River (received by Phil Dirks),
1951
Carton 9, Folder 8
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding tuna and crab operation,
1951-1952
Carton 9, Folder 9
Washington State Fishermen's Council,
1941-1942
Carton 9, Folder 10
Westward Alaska Fisheries Council,
1948
Carton 9, Folder 12-13
I-P, miscellaneous,
1945-1947
Carton 9, Folder 14-18
Miscellaneous IFAWA correspondence (some regarding preparation of fish study),
1944-1953
Carton 9, Folder 19
Circular letters,
1947-1949
Carton 9, Folder 20-24
Wires received and sent,
1946-1948
Series 2:
Minutes.
Physical Description:
Carton 9, folder 25-41; carton 10, folder 1-7
Carton 9, Folder 25
Alaska Fisheries Union Strategy Committee,
1946
Carton 9, Folder 26
Coastwise Shoreworkers Conference,
1947
Carton 9, Folder 27
Coordinating Committee, Washington, D.C.,
1939-1942
Carton 9, Folder 28-29
Crab Fishermen meetings, Local 34,
1950-1951
Carton 9, Folder 30
Dragboat Fishermen meetings, Local 34,
1950-1952
Carton 9, Folder 31-32
Executive Board, Local 34,
1950-1951
Carton 9, Folder 33
Fish and Game Commission, California,
1949
Carton 9, Folder 34-35
Grievance Committee, Local 34,
1948-1951
Carton 9, Folder 36-37
Membership meetings, Local 34,
1950-1952
Carton 9, Folder 38
Political Action Committee, Local 34,
Carton 9, Folder 39
Northern California Joint Council,
1950
Carton 9, Folder 40-41
IFAWA International Executive Board,
1948-1950
Carton 10, Folder 1
Joint Action Committee, Northern California,
1950-1951
Carton 10, Folder 2
Legislative meeting,
1946
Carton 10, Folder 3
Salmon Fishermen, Local 34,
1950
Carton 10, Folder 4-5
Sardine Fishermen, Local 34,
1949-1950
Carton 10, Folder 6
Shark Industry meetings, Local 34,
1949
Carton 10, Folder 7
Washington State Industrial Union Council,
1948
Series 3:
Agreements.
1948-1951
Physical Description:
Carton 10, folder 8-33
Scope and Content Note
Includes agreements entered into between the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America and employers/boat owners.
Some of these agreements are arranged by Local number and others by type of fishing (such as sardines, salmon, drag boats).
There is one file on the drag boat strike of 1951.
Series 4:
Grievances.
1946-1950
Physical Description:
Carton 10, folder 34-39; carton 11, folder 1-4
Scope and Content Note
Includes files on: crab grievances; crew grievances (sardine boats); MacArthur Beef (violation of working agreement, Local
34); Margaret F (sardines, Local 34); weight grievances, Local 34; miscellaneous grievance reports, Local 34.
Series 5:
Disputes.
1940,
1945-1947
Physical Description:
Carton 11, folder 5-10
Scope and Content Note
Includes files on: Seine and Line Fishermen's Union of Monterey/Alaska Fishermen's Union (1947); Cook Inlet unfair labor charge
(1947); Local 3-53 Executive Board Meeting dispute (1947); floating cannery dispute (1947); IFAWA - FTA dispute (1945); Kodiak
Dispute (1940).
Series 6:
Legal Matters.
1939-1950
Physical Description:
Carton 11, folder 11-31
Scope and Content Note
Includes files on: Purse Seine trial regarding Moss Landing boats Sunlight, Gius, Marie, Sea Lion; Izaac Walton League suit
versus Department of Interior (salmon conservation; 1949); the anti-trust case brought by the federal government against the
IFAWA (1946-1951); the Maritime Federation Defense Committee; assorted legal matters; and legislation.
Series 7:
Membership and Elections.
1946-1954
Physical Description:
Carton 12; cardfile box 1-2
Scope and Content Note
Includes: assorted membership lists and records for for Local 34 (San Francisco) and Local 36 (Newport Beach, California)
as well as Balloting Committee Reports and filled-out ballots for Locals 34 and 36 (1948-1953). Cardfile boxes 1-2 include
a card file of members, arranged roughly alphabetically by surname (cardfile box 1: A-L; cardfile box 2: M-Z).
Series 8:
Sardine Studies and Other Fish Studies.
1944-1950
Physical Description:
Carton 13; carton 14, folder 1-7
Carton 13, Folder
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
Carton 13, Folder 2
Sardine Study: Work Sheets and Exhibits,
1947
Carton 13, Folder 3
Report on the Sardine Industry of California as of March '48 by Willis H. Rich,
1948
Carton 13, Folder 4-7
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
Carton 13, Folder 8
Reports on the Sardine Fishery by J. Neyman (California CIO Council Research Department), May 1948
1948
Carton 13, Folder 9-10
Sardine Study: excerpts and notes,
1948
Carton 13, Folder 11-13
Sardine Research: notes and work sheets,
1948-1949
Carton 13, Folder 14-16
Sardine Advisory Committee,
1948-1949
Carton 13, Folder 17
Sardines: information regarding season,
1948-1950
Carton 13, Folder 18
Commercial fishing studies,
1946-1949
Carton 13, Folder 19
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
Carton 13, Folder 20-21
IFAWA Fish Study, original draft,
1946
Carton 13, Folder 22-25
The Fisheries of California: The Industry - The Men - Their Union (prepared by California CIO Council Research Department,
January 1947),
1947
Carton 14, Folder 1-3
Tuna fact-finding material,
1948-1950
Carton 14, Folder 4-5
Effect of the Southern Initiative (arguments against initiative which would prohibit net fishing within the 3 mile limit),
1948
Carton 14, Folder 6
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
Carton 14, Folder 7
Poll on salmon prices,
1950
Series 9:
State and Federal Agency Files.
circa 1946-1952
Physical Description:
Carton 14, folder 8-24
Carton 14, Folder 8-9
California Department of Employment and Department of Industrial Relations (state and federal),
1946-1952
Carton 14, Folder 10-17
California Fish and Game Commission,
1946-1953
Carton 14, Folder 18
Washington State Department of Fisheries (press releases),
1951-1953
Carton 14, Folder 19-20
United States Coast Guard notices to mariners 12th district,
1948-1950
Carton 14, Folder 21-22
United States Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco Office (public notices),
1949-1951
Carton 14, Folder 23-24
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
Physical Description:
Carton 15, folder 1-20; oversize box, folder 6
Carton 15, Folder
CIO Maritime Committee memos and circulars,
1947
Carton 15, Folder 2
CIO publications,
1947-1949
Scope and Content Note
Includes two publications: Why we fight back: the reasons why farm equipment workers want their own union; One year in the
life of our union: Local 6 in action: ILWU-CIO.
Carton 15, Folder 3
CIO Research Reports,
1950
Carton 15, Folder 4-7
Leaflets and notices to Local 34 members,
1948-1951
Carton 15, Folder 8-9
Press releases - Local 34 and ILWU News,
1946-1952
Oversize box 1, Folder 6
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
Carton 15, Folder 10
Assorted newspaper clippings,
1949
Carton 15, Folder 11
Strike publicity - Dragboat Crews Local 34,
1951
Carton 15, Folder 12
Chamber of Commerce (California),
1947-1948
Carton 15, Folder 15
Farm Labor Consumer Association,
1946
Carton 15, Folder 16
Form letters regarding organization of Santa Cruz Division,
1950
Carton 15, Folder 17
Save the Fisheries Committee,
1948
Carton 15, Folder 18
Sardines, assorted,
circa 1942-1950
Carton 15, Folder 19-20
Miscellaneous reports,
1946-1952
Series 11:
Financial.
circa 1944-1952
Physical Description:
Carton 15, folder 1-20
Subseries 11.1:
Assessments.
circa 1948-1951
Physical Description:
Carton 15, folder 21-34; carton 16, folder 1-31
Scope and Content Note
Includes assessments for: F. Alioto, Anti-Trust and Special Drag Assessment; A La Rocca and Sons; Joe Balestreri and Company;
Consolidated Fisheries, Incorporated; A. Paladini; Pillar Point Fish Company; Purse Seine; A. Romeo Fish and Oyster Company;
C. Stagnara Fish Corporation; Standard Fisheries; J.C. Tarantino (fish liver buyer); Western California Fish Company; Crab
Fishermen; Sardine Fishermen; Shark Fishermen, and miscellaneous.
Subseries 11.2:
Fish Market Accounts.
circa 1948-1951
Physical Description:
Carton 16, folder 32-80
Scope and Content Note
Includes account files for: Mario Alioto; Kimball Allen; American Best Fish Company; Balestrieri; Bear Bait; Central Sea Foods;
Frank Cresci and Sons; A. Davi; DeMello; Di Maggio Fish Stand; Di Maggio's (Joe Busalacchi); Excelsior; Exposition fish Stand;
Farmer's Market; Fishermen's Stand; San Friscia (dealer); Frank Giaminna; Hayward Fishery; Otto Hertz; Jim Kelley; La Rocca's;
Lighthouse; Littlemen's Market; Mini Bait Shop; Noriega Fish and Poultry; Oregon-California Corporation; A. Paladini Company;
Pompei Fish Stand; Joe Pucci; Red Top Sports Center; Richmond Fish and Bait; Romeo Fish Company; Rosario; Roy's Seafood; Sabella's;
Sabella-La Torre Stand 3; Sal and Dom; Sausalito Boat and Tackle; Scalise Brothers; Swan's 10th Street Market; Tom's Crab
Shack; Tony and Joe's; Wagner and Capps; West Coast Sea Food Company; Western California Fish Company; Miscellaneous buyers.
Subseries 11.3:
Other Financial.
circa 1948-1951
Physical Description:
Carton 16, folder 81-116; carton 17
Scope and Content Note
Includes files on boat accounts, mostly from 1951 (documenting fish sold by Local 34 for boat owners); auction, tonnage, and
order files on shark, albacore, tuna, crab, and sardine (carton 17); bills of lading and other records regarding weight and
value of fish and payment of fishermen; and other financial statements, reports and account books.
Series 12:
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America Union (FTA).
circa 1944-1952
Physical Description:
Carton 18-19; oversize box 1, folder 1-5
Carton 18, Folder 2-3
Agricultural organizing,
1947-1948
Carton 18, Folder 4-5
Asparagus organizing drive,
Carton 18, Folder 6
FTA correspondence and memos,
1949
Carton 18, Folder 8-9
FTA Cannery Council,
1944-1947
Carton 18, Folder 10
FTA Local 64 agreements (Van Camp Sea Food),
1945-1951
Carton 18, Folder 11-13
Assorted agreements and contracts,
1945-1949
Carton 18, Folder 14
Statements regarding legislation (including Taft-Hartley Act),
1945-1949
Carton 18, Folder 15
International office, assorted statements,
1949
Carton 18, Folder 16
Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Sasuly (FTA Washington representative), assorted FTA statements (some regarding Taft-Hartley Act),
1949
Carton 18, Folder 17
Legal reports, statements,
1947-1950
Carton 18, Folder 18
AFL-contracts, wage adjustment, National Labor Relations Board (reports, communications),
1945
Carton 18, Folder 19
Briefs of the Monterey Fish Processors Association and the San Francisco Sardine Association,
1946
Carton 18, Folder 20
Puget Sound negotiations (correspondence regarding cannery workers' agreements, copy of agreement),
1947
Carton 18, Folder 21
Opinion and award in O'Dwyer and Mets, Incorporated and FTA Workers Local 78,
1948
Carton 18, Folder 22-24
Publicity scripts for radio programs and press releases,
1946-1949
Carton 19, Folder 1-5
FTA publications and reports,
1944-1949
Carton 19, Folder 6
Constitutions, by-laws, resolutions,
1946-1952
Carton 19, Folder 7
FTA guides, manuals, pamphlets,
1943-1949
Carton 19, Folder 8-14
FTA-CIO flyers, leaflets, newsletters,
circa 1946
Scope and Content Note
Flyers relating to the competition between the American Federation of Labor and the FTA-CIO for cannery workers around 1946.
Carton 19, Folder 15-16
American Federation of Labor flyers, leaflets, newsletters,
circa 1946
Scope and Content Note
Flyers relating to the competition between the American Federation of Labor and the FTA-CIO for cannery workers around 1946.
Carton 19, Folder 17
Program for Cannery Workers Dance (1937), Stockton; Sign for Victory: FTA Songs; and official secret ballot sample,
circa 1937-1946
Oversize-box 1, Folder 1-5
Assorted union newspapers documenting cannery organizating by the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation
of Labor,
circa 1946-1949
Carton 19, Folder 17
Photographs (2): Local 64, FTA-CIO, San Diego scene with families and Santa Claus; Local 82, FTA-CIO, Modesto fundraising
dinner,
circa 1937-1946