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| Title | Harry Bridges, probably at Sea-Tac Airport, 1940 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1940 |
| Caption | Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast leader of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O.) Longshoremen's Union, flew in from San Francisco to attend an emergency mass meeting. C.I.O. members voted to 'give no recognition, support nor sympathy' to the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) Longshoremen's Union strike. The A.F. of L. stopped work at Tacoma, Port Angeles, and Anacortes nearly a week earlier in protest of 1938 National Labor Relations Board decision giving the C.I.O. union collective bargaining rights for the entire Pacific Coast. The C.I.O. wouldn't support the strike, claiming it was against the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and not against their employers. |
| Notes | AFL-CIO also known as American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Amerikanskaia federatsiia truda-Kongress proizvodstvennykh profsoiuzov, and AFT-KPP [note from the Library of Congress Authority File].
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union also known as ILWU, I.L.W.U., International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union, and International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union [not from Library of Congress Authority File].
Handwritten on negative: Harry Bridges.
Handwritten on sleeve: Union leader Harry Bridges.
Caption information source: P-I research files; P-I article, 9/5/40.
Signs in image include: United Air Line.
Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: September 5, 1940. |
| Subjects | Labor leaders--Washington (State)--Seattle; International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union--Washington (State)--Seattle; AFL-CIO--Washington (State)--Seattle; Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airports--Washington (State)--Seattle; Travel--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Bridges, Harry, 1901- |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.19895 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
