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International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 1 records, 1933-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 1 (Raymond, Wash.)
Title
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 1 records
Dates
1933-1988 (inclusive)
Quantity
4.58 cubic feet, (5 boxes)
Collection Number
4307
Summary
Records of the first International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union local chartered in the state of Washington
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

The records are open to all users.

Request at UW

Languages
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Historical Note

In 1937 the International Longshoremen's Association Local 38-92 (AFL) became the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) Local 1, the first CIO local of the ILWU chartered in the state of Washington. ILWU Local 1 was based in Raymond, Washington (on Willapa Bay), and existed until it merged with Aberdeen Local 24 in 1976.

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Content Description

These records provide an important early record of CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) unions in the region.

Included are records of ILWU Local 1, minutes of other Washington locals' labor relations committees, and records of two benevolent associations -- the Willapa Harbor Longshoremen's Benevolent Association and the Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association -- that were intended to provide union workers with accident or retirement benefits. Individuals represented in the papers include ILWU Local 1 secretary Ralph W. Stark and Norman A. Mattson.

The records consist of minutes, correspondence, election material, newsletters, contracts and agreements, financial documents, conference and convention materials, publications, memorabilia, and ephemera.

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Other Descriptive Information

Forms part of the Labor Archives of Washington.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The literary rights of the representatives of the records-creating organization have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The records are arranged into three series:

  • Organizational files
  • Willapa Harbor Longshoremen's Benevolent Association
  • Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association

Custodial History

The records apparently were transferred to Aberdeen, Washington, when Local 1 and Aberdeen Local 24 merged in 1976. Jack Spurrell later took an interest in preserving them and brought them back to Raymond in 1988.

Acquisition Information

These records were given to the University of Washington Libraries by Jack Spurrell of Raymond, Washington, in July of 1991.

Processing Note

Processing of the collection was completed in 1992.

Two color photographs were relocated to the visual materials collections in the Special Collections division of the University of Washington Libraries in 1993: a photo of Jack Spurrell and Norman Mattson with the Longshoremen's statue in Raymond, Washington, forms photograph Accession No. 2001-72; and a portrait of Harry Bridges may have been added to the division's Portraits Collection, PH Coll 563.

Two bound volumes of the tabloid ILWU newsletter, The Dispatcher, 1945 and 1959, were transferred to the Microform and Newspaper Collections in the University of Washington Libraries in 1991.

Related Materials

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union website has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2013. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/*/http://www.ilwu.org/

Wikidata is available for this collection

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Organizational files

    • Description: Historical information
      Dates: 1963-1986
      Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Organizational information
      Dates: 1933-1988
      Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Organizational information
      Dates: 1933-1988
      Container: 4307-001 Box 5
      Location: Organizational files

    • Minutes

      Begining in 1933, the minutes document the formational period of the organization following the waterfront strike of 1934. These minutes extend through 1968. Minutes from 1968 until the merger with the Aberdeen local in 1976, are presumed lost.

      • Description: Longshoremen's Association, International, Local 38-92 (Raymond), Executive Board
        Dates: 1947-1969
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 3
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: Longshoremen's Association, International, Local 38-92 (Raymond)
        Dates: 1933-1968
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 4-13
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 1 (Raymond) joint Labor Relations Committee meetings
        Dates: 1970-1975
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 14
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 1 (Raymond) stop work meetings
        Dates: 1970-1973
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 15-17
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 24 (Aberdeen) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1969-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 18-22
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 25 (Anacortes) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1970-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 23-27
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 7 (Bellingham) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1965-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 28-32
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 32 (Everett) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1970-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 33-37
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 47 (Olympia) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1970-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 38-42
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 27 (Port Angeles) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1971-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 43-46
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 51 (Port Gamble) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1970-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 1, Folder 47-51
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 19 (Seattle) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1964-1973
        Container: 4307-001 Box 2, Folder 1-12
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Local 23 (Tacoma) Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1964-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 2, Folder 13-19
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Puget Sound Area Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1967-1974
        Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 1
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Puget Sound Council
        Dates: 1966-1970
        Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 2
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Washington Area Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1964-1973
        Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 3-5
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes
      • Description: ILWU Coast Labor Relations Committee
        Dates: 1965
        Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 6
        Location: Organizational files / Minutes

    • Incoming letters

    • Description: Outgoing letters
      Dates: 1962-1975
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 15
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Elections
      Dates: 1948-1971
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 16
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Newsletters
      Dates: 1971
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 17
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: News releases
      Dates: 1981
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 18
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Contracts and agreements
      Dates: 1966-1975
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 19
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Petitions
      Dates: undated
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 20
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Statements
      Dates: 1971-1972
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 21
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Financial reports
      Dates: 1966, 1970
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 22
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Reports-Grays Harbor annual report
      Dates: 1966
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 23
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Rules
      Dates: undated
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 24
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Training material
      Dates: undated
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 25-26
      Location: Organizational files

    • Conference and convention materials

    • Description: Publications
      Dates: 1949-1987
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 30-31
      Location: Organizational files

    • Memorabilia

    • Description: Ephemera
      Dates: undated
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 32
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Lists
      Dates: 1975
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 33
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: undated
      Container: 4307-001 Box 3, Folder 34
      Location: Organizational files

    • Subject series

    • Description: Roll call
      Dates: 1937-1968
      Container: 4307-001 Box 4, Folder 6-7
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Day book and roll call
      Dates: 1935-1937
      Container: 4307-001 Box 4, Folder 8-9
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Day book
      Dates: 1937-1946
      Container: 4307-001 Box 4, Folder 10
      Location: Organizational files
    • Description: Dues
      Dates: 1933-1947
      Container: 4307-001 Box 4, Folder 11-12
      Location: Organizational files

  • Willapa Harbor Longshoremen's Benevolent Association, approximately 1976-1982

  • Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association, 1960-1981

Names and Subjects

Subject Terms

  • Fraternal organizations--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
  • Industrial relations--Washington (State)
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
  • Stevedores--Labor unions--Washington (State)
  • Stevedores--Labor unions--Washington (State)--Raymond

Form or Genre Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Ephemera
  • Minutes
  • Newsletters
  • Roll calls
  • conferences
  • daybooks
  • memorabilia

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Mattson, Norman A
    • Stark, Ralph W

    Corporate Names

    • International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 1 (Raymond, Wash.)--Archives
    • Willapa Harbor Longshoremen's Benevolent Association


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