Brotherhood of the sea : a history of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1885-1985 / by Stephen Schwartz ; foreword by Paul Dempster, preface by John F. Henning, introduction by Karl Kortum.
In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it's defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco's Embarcad...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it's defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco's Embarcadero led to the stationing of National Guard troops on the front'. This book looks at the Union from 1885 to 1985. |
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| Item Description: | "First published 1986 by Sailors'Union of the Pacific." Author's Biography and Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781000674897 1000674894 9780429336201 0429336209 9781000659177 1000659178 9781000667035 1000667030 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Stephen Schwartz was born in 1948 and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since he was two. He publishedpoetry and other writings while at Lowell High School, and attended the City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley. At the latter institution, he was awarded a scholarship and other honors. However, like many of his peers in the turbulent generation of the 1960s, Mr. Schwartz turned away from anacademic career to become an activist, in his case in the labor movement. After shipping out as a member of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, he "swallowed the anchor" and served almost ten years as a railroad employee. He has been a leading member of AFL-CIO Railway Clerks' lodges 248 (Western Pacific) and 226 (Santa Fe). Since 1980, Mr. Schwartz has concentrated on his work as a writer. In 1981-83, he was senior editor of Pacific Shipper, the leading West Coast maritime periodical, and he is now editor of the San Francisco-based quarterly Journal of Contemporary Studies. He participated in the massive 1986 study, Unions in Transition, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset with Herman Benson, Lane Kirkland, and others. |