Containers:

Box 2647

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, Codes: 30100 - 30110

Dates:

1957-03 to 1958-07, 1959-01

Scope and content:

Labor related activities around the Bay Area and the Central Valley with picketing, strikes and labor disputes involving laundry workers, Teamsters, hod carriers, television engineers, machinists, communication workers, Tanforan horseracing track, culinary workers, Macy's and J.C. Penny's department stores, the post office and operating engineers; American Federation of Television and Radio Artists meeting, Teamsters meetings, American Federation of Labor meeting; labor leaders Einar Mohn, Daniel E. Conway, US Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, George Meany, C.J. Haggerty, Harry Bridges and James P. Hoffa. Includes farming communities and labor camps with Hispanic American laborers in the Central Valley [30102, 7 sleeves]; dedication of the new headquarters for Marine Firemen's Union at 240 Second Street [30103, 1 sleeve]; the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union building being constructed [30103, 6 sleeves]; James P. Hoffa and architect Frank Lloyd Wright arriving at San Francisco International Airport [30103, 1 sleeve; African Americans picketing the Safeway store at Turk and Fillmore Streets (race relations) [30110, 1 sleeve].

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