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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 (Accession No. 4307-001)
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.

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Languages
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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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.

Preferred Citation

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 1 records. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

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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/

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Organizational files

  • Description: Willapa Harbor Longshoremen's Benevolent Association
    Dates: circa 1976-1982
    Container: Box/Folder 4/13-14
  • Description: Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association
    Dates: 1960-1981
    Container: Box/Folder 4/15-16


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