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Labor Unions

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Phillip M. Gayeski papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 942
Abstract

Papers of Phillip M. Gayeski (1905-1979), including picket cards, union membership books, an indictment against him and others, and photographs. Gayeski worked as a merchant marine, and then was a longshore worker in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1924-1979

Oral history interview with Jesse K. Stranahan

 Collection
Identifier: SR 1604
Abstract

Oral history interview with Jesse K. Stranahan, conducted by Bill Patten in three sessions from January 7 to February 4, 1995, for the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Stranahan discusses his involvement with the Longshore Supercargoes and Clerks Local 40 and ILWU Local 8, beginning in 1946. He also speaks about strikes by workers on the Portland waterfront during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1970s.

Dates: 1995 January 7-February 4