| Title: |
Reminiscences of Louis Goldblatt
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A119
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family background; childhood; education; City College of New York, University of California at Los Angeles; early exposure to communism, other radical movements; involvement with International Longshoremen and Warehousers' Union (ILWU): strikes, contract negotiations, 1935-75, rise of leadership of ILWU, split, hostilities with Teamsters, 1937, ILWU into Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1937, organization of Hawaiian plantation workers, 1947-49, organization of Hollywood; struggle against internment of Japanese 1942; effect of red baiting during McCarthy era on ILWU's relations with Congress of Industrial Organizations; travel in France and Japan; trip to Soviet Union, 1959; Kennedy-Hoffa dispute; ILWU and student anti-war movement at Berkeley, 1960s; feud with Harry Bridges, president of ILWU; retirement 1975; trip to Israel, 1976; family and wife; recollections of Jimmy Hoffa, Harry Bridges, J. Paul St. Sure.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 1,165 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact Bancroft Library for information. Original oral history held by: Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1978 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Goldblatt, Louis, 1910-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1910
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| Speaker occupation: |
Labor leader
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| Age at speaking: |
68
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| Document date: |
1978
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| Interviewer: |
Ward, E. E.
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| Organizations discussed: |
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1936-1955
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1936-1955; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans; Labor unions and communism; Labor unions--Officials and employees; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--Politics and government--20th century; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Bridges, Harry, 1901-; Goldblatt, Louis, 1910-; International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019013-14456
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