Finding aid to the Don Watson Oral History
Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
Labor Archives and Research Center
2017
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722
larc@sfsu.edu
Title: Don Watson oral history
Date (inclusive): 1994 March 11-April 21
Creator:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Extent:
Transcript: 1 folder; Tapes: 8 audio cassettes
Collection number: larc.oh.watson
Contributing Institution: Labor Archives and Research Center
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu
Abstract: Sound recording of interview with Don Watson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks
and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls
Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement,
1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History
Workshop, 1980s. LARC also has a supplementary interview tape that oral historian Harvey Schwartz used in his May 2004 article
on Watson in the ILWU Dispatcher that has not been transcribed.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English.
Collection is open for research.
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Don Watson oral history. San Francisco State University. Labor Archives and Research Center
Interviews conducted by Harvey Schwartz, 1994, 2004.
Retired in 1993 from Ship Clerks' Local 34, ILWU.
Sound recording of interview with Don Watson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks
and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls
Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement,
1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History
Workshop, 1980s. LARC also has a supplementary interview tape that oral historian Harvey Schwartz used in his May 2004 article
on Watson in the ILWU Dispatcher that has not been transcribed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Employee screening -- California.
Labor union members -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.
Labor unions -- California -- History.
Stewards -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.
Audiocassettes.
Oral histories.
Watson, Don
Schwartz, Harvey
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Northern California District Council.
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 34 (San Francisco, Calif.)