Take It Easy, But Take It

"...anything can happen in the future. A shipowner might get run over by a truck in the future, but that doesn't keep him from crossing the street today. And we're advising the shipowners that they'd better cross over to our side of the street and start negotiating from here on in..."

-ILA 38-79 San Francisco Longshore  - ILA 38-123 Portland Wheat/Cereal ILA 38-12 Seattle Longshore ILA 38 Sacramento Wheat/Cereal - ILA 38-78 Portland General Longshore - Save 28 Innocent ILA Men from Portland during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike ILA 38-78-A Portland Super Cargos & Checkers

Taken from the Proceedings of the second UOPWA convention, this 1938 chart gives an idea of the unions structure and organization. This is a working list of UOPWA Local unions. Most of this information comes from financial statements to the 1938 Convention. This will be updated regularly as I dig deeper into UOPWA history. 1 - Hartford, CT 2 - Philadelphia, PA 3 - Boston, MA 4 - Akron, OH 5 - Cleveland, OH 6 - Akron, OH 7 - Newark, NJ 8 - Newport??????? 9 - Los Angeles, CA 10 - Pittsburgh, PA 11 - New Haven, CT 12 - Baltimore, MD 13 - ????????????? 14 - Denver, CO 15 - Newark, NJ  16 - New York, NY - General Office 17 - Bayonne, NJ 18 - New York, NY - Publishing 19 - New York, NY - Social Service 20 - New York, NY 21 - Philadelphia, PA 22 - Philadelphia, PA 23 - Phoenix, AZ 24 - Chicago, IL - dual charter? Insurance division 25 - Indianapolis, IN 26 - Detroit, MI 27 - Washington, DC 28 - Chicago, IL 29 - Toledo, OH...

Westinghouse Industrial Union - Springfield Massachusetts. UE Locals 202 & 220. The earlier pins from 1937 have UERW before they added the M apparently.

This is a new member packet from UE-CIO. I believe this was printed in 1947. One year later the UE was expelled from the CIO and remains independent and left wing to this day. This first group of pictures is the packet folder. What follows are the contents. 3 small one page foldovers... "UE News", "You and Your Steward" and "People In Action" UE News You and Your steward People In Action

"MASS VIOLENCE MILWAUKEE, WISC - CIO Strikers at the Alliis Chalmers Plant wasted no time in turning over an automobile attempting to enter the plant, April 1. Because authorities were unable to control the rioting, Gov. Heil ordered the plant closed. Credit Line: ACME 4/2/41"

These were likely produced in 1954 or 1955. The first 2 were published by the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union. The last was published by the National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards. All 3 address the Seafarer's International Union attempting to raid jurisdictions and absorb the other maritime unions through the National Labor Relations Board. Here is a link to a corresponding "Dispatcher" article... htt p://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/19540122.pdf Here is a link to the NLRB ruling: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/218/913/61378/