Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1947-2015

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Title
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records
Dates
1947-2015 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.19 cubic feet (4 boxes)
Collection Number
4552
Summary
Records of an organization which sponsors conferences and other events relating to the history of the labor movement in the Pacific Northwest
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Some restrictions on access. Contact repository for details.

Additional Reference Guides

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (PNLHA) is a non-profit association dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of workers in the Pacific Northwest. It considers the “Pacific Northwest” to be British Columbia, Oregon and Washington.

Members of the PNLHA include trade unionists, students, academics, and others who share an interest in the history and heritage of workers in the pacific northwest region. The PNLHA believes the labor movement must know where it’s been to know where it’s going. It depends exclusively on memberships to sustain its activities.

Adapted from the "About" section of the PNLHA website (https://pnlha.wordpress.com/about-2/ ) on 3/16/2016

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Conference files, including papers presented, correspondence, CD and DVD recordings, photographs, and related materials about projects sponsored by the association (1947-2015); miscellaneous correspondence files (1972-1990), Board of Directors correspondence files (1990-1993). Additional correspondence, minutes, reports, and agendas document the activities of the PNLHA executive board from 1999-2000. Also includes a file of correspondence between George Underwood and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) dating July 10, 1971 to August 11, 1977.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections unless otherwise specified. See the accessions below for more details.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

  • Accession No. 4552-001, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1971-1995
  • Accession No. 4552-002, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1947-2015

Separated Materials

Ross Rieder Audio and Video Collection (Manuscript Collection 5930)

Related Materials

The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association website has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2014. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/*/http://pnlha.wordpress.com/

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 4552-001: Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1971-1995Return to Top

1.83 cubic feet (3 boxes)
Arrangement: Conference files are arranged chronologically and contain material other than the conference papers. Only the conference papers are listed on the inventory.

Scope and Content: Conference files, including papers presented, correspondence, and related materials about projects sponsored by the association (1972-1995), miscellaneous correspondence files (1972-1990), Board of Directors correspondence files (1990-1993). Also includes a file of correspondence between George Underwood and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) dating July 10, 1971 to August 11, 1977.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Literary rights of representatives of the records-creating organization transferred to the University of Washington Libraries but not those of the presenters at the conferences.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, 8/18/1995

Processing Info: Processing completed in 1998.

Container(s) Description Dates
Organizational Records
Box/Folder Accession
1/1-19 4552-001
General Correspondence (chronological Order)
1972-1990
1/20-22 4552-001
Intraorganizational Correspondence
Board Correspondence
1990-1993
Writings
Box/Folder Accession
1/23 4552-001
“The CIO in Idaho: The 1937 Strikes” - paper by Patricia Snow
1975
1/24 4552-001
“H.I.T. Rebel” Memoirs of Harry Tucker
1981-1983
1/25 4552-001
“Voices of Washington State” - series of papers
1992
Conferences (incl. Conference Papers)
Box/Folder Accession
1/26 4552-001
American Historical Association. Pacific Coast Branch Conference
1992
Box/Folder Accession
2/1-16 4552-001
Pnlha Annual Conferences (including Conference Papers, Correspondence, Agendas, Photographs, Ephemera, Schedules, Etc.)
1972-1995
Conference Papers
1972-1991
Box/Folder Accession
2/1 4552-001
Collective Bargaining Practices of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company 1935-37 by Eugene Hooper
1972
2/2 4552-001
A Look at Enumclaw's Past by Wayne Podolak
1976
An abstract for a paper on the Labor Relations of Pope & Talbot, Inc. by Craig Wollner
A Bibliography of Washington State Labor, Laboring Classes, Radical, Political and Social Movements by Jonathan Dembo
The Ethnic Experience in Western Mining History: An Examination of the Rosenblum Thesis by Gerald Rosenblum, Immigrant Workers: Their Impact on American Radicalism
Writing B[ritish].C[olumbia]. Labour History n.a.
Box/Folder Accession
2/3 4552-001
The IWA: Its Present As History by Jerry Lembcke
1977
Unionization of Agricultural Field Workers on the West Coast by James G. Newbill
Box/Folder Accession
2/4 4552-001
The CIO and That "Damnable Bickering in the Pacific Northwest, 1937-1941 by Hugh T. Lovin
1978
2/5 4552-001
In Pursuit of the Cooperative Commonwealth: Thoughts on Early Trade Unionism in the Pacific Northwest by Carlos A. Schwantes
1979
Left-Wing Unionism in the Pacific Northwest: A Comparative History of Organized Labor and Socialist Politics in Abstract: Washington and British Columbia, by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
1885-1917
Spokane and the Wage Workers' Frontier by Carlos A. Schwantes
Box/Folder Accession
2/6 4552-001
Al Parkin, Worker, Organizer, Journalist, Teacher by George North
1980
The Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the 'Wobbly' Connection by Stanley S. Phipps
Corruption, Factionalism and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in the Birth of a Union by Jack K. Masson and Donald Guimary
Box/Folder Accession
2/7 4552-001
The Destruction of the Butte Miners' Union A Study of the Socialist Party, the I.W.W., Mining Enterprise, and the State by Jerry W. Calvert
1981
Abstracts: Circumstances of the Death of Ginger Goodwin by Christina J. Nichol
The American Way- Anti-Communism in a Longshore Local, 1938-1958 by Mary___?
White-Collar Workers and the Class Structure: Changes in the White-Collar Sector of the British Columbia Labour Force and Their Class Implications by David Coburn and Rennie Warburton
Box/Folder Accession
2/8 4552-001
Responding to Economic Crisis: A Comparison of Anti-Crisis Activity in the Depression and Today by Philip S. Foner
1983
To: Labor Education & Research Center, Eugene by ILWU President James R. Herman
Oral History: The Depression Taught Me One Thing.To Be a Union Member by Lucille Johnson McKenzie
The Fraser Mills Strike of 1931: Class and Community During the Great Depression by M. Jeanne Meyers Williams
The Educator and the Depression by James M. Wallace
Box/Folder Accession
2/9 4552-001
The Western Federation of Miners in the Coeur d'Alene and Kootenay Region, 1899-1902 by Jeremy Movat
1984
2/10 4552-001
The Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Wagner Act and the Legitimatization of Labor in Northern Idaho's Mining Industry by Stanley S. Phipps
1985
2/11 4552-001
Lumber and Labor; Violence in the Pacific Northwest by Richard M. Brown
1986
Theresa McMahon and the Labor Movement in the in the Northwest, 1919-1937 by Bradley J. Hillis
The Last of the Old-Time Bolsheviks by John Thomas
Reflections on Ralph Chaplin, the Wobblies, and Organizing In the Save the World Business -- Then and Now by John R. Salter, Jr.
Jay Fox: Anarchist of Home by Mary M. Carr
A Good Song Is Worth an Even Dozen Sermons: Labour Songs and the Schools by Mark Leier
Solidarity and Fragmentation in American Working-Class History, 1870s - 1930s by Melvyn Dubofsky
Box/Folder Accession
2/13 4552-001
Reorganization of the Pacific Coast Longshoremen, 1929-1933 by Ottilie Markholt
1988
The Ledwich Papers by David Broughton
A Gathering Place During Trying Times: the Seattle Worker's College in the Early 1920s by Sarah Sharbach
A History of the Oregon Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act by Marcus Widenor
Red Baiting and Labor in Washington State by William F. Johnston
1946-1950
Seattle Labor's 1920 Bon Marche Boycott by Dana Frank
Box/Folder Accession
2/14 4552-001
World War II and the Unraveling of CIO Labor internationalism
1989
Labor and Capital During World War II: The Example of the Boeing Company and IAM District Lodge 751 by John mcCann
World War II: The Remaking of the American Working Class by Nelson Lichtenstein
Policing Class Relations in the Age of Lumber Production. The Case of Eugene and Lane County, 1897-1960 by Neil Websdale
Box/Folder Accession
2/15 4552-001
The Tacoma Retail Stores Strike by Ottilie Markholt
1991
Masters Thesis: A Political Press: Policies of the Washington Commonwealth Federation "A Maverick State Plays Politics" by Alice Jane Kling
The Life of Terry Pettus: Journalist, Trade Unionist, and Political Activist by Michelle Stillings
A History of the Seattle Labor School by Robert Olson
Box/Folder Accession
3/1-4 4552-001
PNLHA Annual Conferences (including conference papers, agendas, photographs, ephemera, schedules, etc.)
Conference Papers
1992-1995
Box/Folder Accession
3/1 4552-001
Abstract: Uniform Labor Go[l]dfish Bowl Bargaining From
1934-1957
Seattle 1900-1920 From Boomtown, Urban Turbulence, to Restoration by Richard C. Berner
1992
Democracy and Productivity A Brief Historical Perspective by Del Castle
Box/Folder Accession
3/3 4552-001
How Shall We Remember the Seattle General Strike? By Ottilie Markholt
1994
British Columbia and the Mining West by David Roth and Allen Seager
Box/Folder Accession
3/4 4552-001
The Wise Use Movement and the Politics of Disinheritance by David A. Mazza
1995
What Jobs in the Woods? Challenge and Transition for the Forest Workforce by Charles Spencer, Flaxen D. L. Conway, and Bob Warren
Communities Facing the Ax: the Human and Ecological Consequences of the Narrative of Sustained Yield Forestry by Stan Beyer
Ethnicity and Class Issues in the Muckamuck Restaurant First Nations Workers; Trade Union Dispute, Vancouver (1978-1983) by Janet May Nicol
Creating a Dialogue Towards Ecounionism by Christine Micklewright
Of Time and Terrain in the American West The Industrial Interlude by William G. Robbins
Job versus Parks: The Environment and Vancouver's Early Labour Movement by Mark Leier
CAW Lower Mainland Environmental Committee Presentation to CAW National Task Force April 5, 1994
Class and the Environment, Historically and in the Present by John Bellamy Foster
Across Their Backs: Forms of Work Organization and the Politics of Sustainability Learning From the Columbia River Salmon Fisheries by Blaine Vogt
Of Time and Terrain in the American The Industrial Interlude by William G. Robbins
More Than Mere Survival: Placer Mining in 1930s British Columbia by Lesley Cooper
Creating a Dialogue Towards Ecounionism by Christine Micklewright
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
3/5 4552-001
Beck, Dave
1977-84
3/6 4552-001
Flathead Community College Foundation (Perry Melton)
1979
3/7 4552-001
Handcox, John
1985
3/8 4552-001
Laborers’ International Union of North America. Local 348
1980
3/9 4552-001
Miller, Jack
1977
3/10 4552-001
P-I Strike Commemoration
1986
3/11 4552-001
“Pioneer Alaskeros” Documentary Project
1986
3/12 4552-001
“Seattle 1919” - rock opera by Fuse Music
1981-88
3/13 4552-001
“Sticking to the Union” - oral history project by Jeremy R. Egolf
1984-85
3/14 4552-001
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Spanish Civil War Commemoration
1986
3/15 4552-001
Washington Commission for the Humanities Grant
1987
George Underwood
Box/Folder Accession
3/16 4552-001
Subject Series - Industrial Workers Of The World
1971-77

Accession No. 4552-002: Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1947-2015Return to Top

.36 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Printed programs, photos, CD and DVD recordings, and ephemera document the proceedings of the PNLHA Annual Conference from 1947 to 2015. Correspondence, minutes, reports, and agendas document the activities of the PNLHA executive board from 1999-2000.

Restrictions on Access: Some restrictions on access. Contact repository for details.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Acquisition Info: Ross Rieder, 2016

Separated Material: Relocated from the Ross Rieder Audio and Video Collection (5930-001), 2016-16-03.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Accession
1 4552-002
Conference Proceedings and Speakers recordings
1979-2015
Box/Folder
1/1 4552-002
Conference programs, photos, ephemera
1947-1976
1/2 4552-002
Conference programs, photos, ephemera
1976-1979
1/3 4552-002
Conference programs, photos, ephemera
1980-1990
1/4 4552-002
Conference programs, photos, ephemera
1989-1991
1/5 4552-002
PNLHA Executive Packets
1999-2000

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Labor union locals--United States--History--20th century
  • Labor union meetings--United States--History--20th century
  • Labor union rules--United States--History--20th century
  • Labor unions--Congresses
  • Labor unions--Northwest, Pacific
  • Labor unions--United States--History--20th century
  • Labor--United States--History--20th century
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Beck, Dave, 1894-1993--Correspondence
  • Handcox, John L., 1904-1992--Correspondence
  • Miller, Jack R. (Jack Richard), 1916-1994--Correspondence
  • Underwood, G. (George), 1880-

Corporate Names

  • Industrial Workers of the World
  • Industrial Workers of the World--Correspondence
  • Laborers' International Union of North America. Local 348--Correspondence
  • Pacific Northwest Labor History Association--Archives
  • Pacific Northwest Labor History Association--Congresses
  • Pacific Northwest Labor History Association--Correspondence

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Rieder, Ross K (creator)
    Corporate Names
    • Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (creator)
    • Laborers' International Union of North America. Local 348 (creator)
    • Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (creator)