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Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1947-2015
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
- Title
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records
- Dates
- 1947-2015 (inclusive)19472015
- Quantity
- 2.19 cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 4552
- Summary
- Records of an organization which sponsors conferences and other events relating to the history of the labor movement in the Pacific Northwest
- Repository
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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
Some restrictions on access. Contact repository for details.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (PNLHA) is a non-profit association dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of workers in the Pacific Northwest. It considers the “Pacific Northwest” to be British Columbia, Oregon and Washington.
Members of the PNLHA include trade unionists, students, academics, and others who share an interest in the history and heritage of workers in the pacific northwest region. The PNLHA believes the labor movement must know where it’s been to know where it’s going. It depends exclusively on memberships to sustain its activities.
Adapted from the "About" section of the PNLHA website (https://pnlha.wordpress.com/about-2/ ) on 3/16/2016
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Conference files, including papers presented, correspondence, CD and DVD recordings, photographs, and related materials about projects sponsored by the association (1947-2015); miscellaneous correspondence files (1972-1990), Board of Directors correspondence files (1990-1993). Additional correspondence, minutes, reports, and agendas document the activities of the PNLHA executive board from 1999-2000. Also includes a file of correspondence between George Underwood and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) dating July 10, 1971 to August 11, 1977.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections unless otherwise specified. See the accessions below for more details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 2 accessions.
- Accession No. 4552-001, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1971-1995
- Accession No. 4552-002, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1947-2015
Separated Materials
Ross Rieder Audio and Video Collection (Manuscript Collection 5930)
Related Materials
The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association website has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2014. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/*/http://pnlha.wordpress.com/
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 4552-001: Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1971-1995Return to Top
Scope and Content: Conference files, including papers presented, correspondence, and related materials about projects sponsored by the association (1972-1995), miscellaneous correspondence files (1972-1990), Board of Directors correspondence files (1990-1993). Also includes a file of correspondence between George Underwood and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) dating July 10, 1971 to August 11, 1977.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Literary rights of representatives of the records-creating organization transferred to the University of Washington Libraries but not those of the presenters at the conferences.
Acquisition Info: Donated by Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, 8/18/1995
Processing Info: Processing completed in 1998.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Organizational Records |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1-19 | 4552-001 | General Correspondence (chronological
Order) |
1972-1990 |
1/20-22 | 4552-001 | Intraorganizational Correspondence |
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Board Correspondence |
1990-1993 | ||
Writings |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/23 | 4552-001 | “The CIO in Idaho: The 1937 Strikes” - paper by
Patricia Snow |
1975 |
1/24 | 4552-001 | “H.I.T. Rebel” Memoirs of Harry Tucker |
1981-1983 |
1/25 | 4552-001 | “Voices of Washington State” - series of
papers |
1992 |
Conferences (incl. Conference Papers) |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/26 | 4552-001 | American Historical Association. Pacific Coast
Branch Conference |
1992 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/1-16 | 4552-001 | Pnlha Annual Conferences (including Conference Papers,
Correspondence, Agendas, Photographs, Ephemera, Schedules, Etc.) |
1972-1995 |
Conference Papers |
1972-1991 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/1 | 4552-001 | Collective Bargaining Practices of the St. Paul
and Tacoma Lumber Company 1935-37 by Eugene Hooper |
1972 |
2/2 | 4552-001 | A Look at Enumclaw's Past by Wayne
Podolak |
1976 |
An abstract for a paper on the Labor Relations
of Pope & Talbot, Inc. by Craig Wollner |
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A Bibliography of Washington State Labor,
Laboring Classes, Radical, Political and Social Movements by Jonathan
Dembo |
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The Ethnic Experience in Western Mining History:
An Examination of the Rosenblum Thesis by Gerald Rosenblum, Immigrant Workers:
Their Impact on American Radicalism |
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Writing B[ritish].C[olumbia]. Labour History
n.a. |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/3 | 4552-001 | The IWA: Its Present As History by Jerry
Lembcke |
1977 |
Unionization of Agricultural Field Workers on
the West Coast by James G. Newbill |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/4 | 4552-001 | The CIO and That "Damnable Bickering in the
Pacific Northwest, 1937-1941 by Hugh T. Lovin |
1978 |
2/5 | 4552-001 | In Pursuit of the Cooperative Commonwealth:
Thoughts on Early Trade Unionism in the Pacific Northwest by Carlos A.
Schwantes |
1979 |
Left-Wing Unionism in the Pacific Northwest: A
Comparative History of Organized Labor and Socialist Politics in Abstract:
Washington and British Columbia, by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes |
1885-1917 | ||
Spokane and the Wage Workers' Frontier by Carlos
A. Schwantes |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/6 | 4552-001 | Al Parkin, Worker, Organizer, Journalist, Teacher
by George North |
1980 |
The Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the
'Wobbly' Connection by Stanley S. Phipps |
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Corruption, Factionalism and Inter-Ethnic
Conflict in the Birth of a Union by Jack K. Masson and Donald
Guimary |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/7 | 4552-001 | The Destruction of the Butte Miners' Union A Study
of the Socialist Party, the I.W.W., Mining Enterprise, and the State by Jerry
W. Calvert |
1981 |
Abstracts: Circumstances of the Death of Ginger
Goodwin by Christina J. Nichol |
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The American Way- Anti-Communism in a Longshore
Local, 1938-1958 by Mary___? |
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White-Collar Workers and the Class Structure:
Changes in the White-Collar Sector of the British Columbia Labour Force and
Their Class Implications by David Coburn and Rennie Warburton |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/8 | 4552-001 | Responding to Economic Crisis: A Comparison of
Anti-Crisis Activity in the Depression and Today by Philip S. Foner |
1983 |
To: Labor Education & Research Center,
Eugene by ILWU President James R. Herman |
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Oral History: The Depression Taught Me One
Thing.To Be a Union Member by Lucille Johnson McKenzie |
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The Fraser Mills Strike of 1931: Class and
Community During the Great Depression by M. Jeanne Meyers Williams |
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The Educator and the Depression by James M.
Wallace |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/9 | 4552-001 | The Western Federation of Miners in the Coeur
d'Alene and Kootenay Region, 1899-1902 by Jeremy Movat |
1984 |
2/10 | 4552-001 | The Congress of Industrial Organizations, the
Wagner Act and the Legitimatization of Labor in Northern Idaho's Mining
Industry by Stanley S. Phipps |
1985 |
2/11 | 4552-001 | Lumber and Labor; Violence in the Pacific
Northwest by Richard M. Brown |
1986 |
Theresa McMahon and the Labor Movement in the in
the Northwest, 1919-1937 by Bradley J. Hillis |
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The Last of the Old-Time Bolsheviks by John
Thomas |
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Reflections on Ralph Chaplin, the Wobblies, and
Organizing In the Save the World Business -- Then and Now by John R. Salter,
Jr. |
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Jay Fox: Anarchist of Home by Mary M.
Carr |
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A Good Song Is Worth an Even Dozen Sermons:
Labour Songs and the Schools by Mark Leier |
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Solidarity and Fragmentation in American
Working-Class History, 1870s - 1930s by Melvyn Dubofsky |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/13 | 4552-001 | Reorganization of the Pacific Coast Longshoremen,
1929-1933 by Ottilie Markholt |
1988 |
The Ledwich Papers by David
Broughton |
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A Gathering Place During Trying Times: the
Seattle Worker's College in the Early 1920s by Sarah Sharbach |
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A History of the Oregon Public Employee
Collective Bargaining Act by Marcus Widenor |
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Red Baiting and Labor in Washington State by
William F. Johnston |
1946-1950 | ||
Seattle Labor's 1920 Bon Marche Boycott by Dana
Frank |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/14 | 4552-001 | World War II and the Unraveling of CIO Labor
internationalism |
1989 |
Labor and Capital During World War II: The
Example of the Boeing Company and IAM District Lodge 751 by John
mcCann |
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World War II: The Remaking of the American
Working Class by Nelson Lichtenstein |
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Policing Class Relations in the Age of Lumber
Production. The Case of Eugene and Lane County, 1897-1960 by Neil
Websdale |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/15 | 4552-001 | The Tacoma Retail Stores Strike by Ottilie
Markholt |
1991 |
Masters Thesis: A Political Press: Policies of
the Washington Commonwealth Federation "A Maverick State Plays Politics" by
Alice Jane Kling |
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The Life of Terry Pettus: Journalist, Trade
Unionist, and Political Activist by Michelle Stillings |
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A History of the Seattle Labor School by Robert
Olson |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/1-4 | 4552-001 | PNLHA Annual Conferences (including conference
papers, agendas, photographs, ephemera, schedules, etc.) |
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Conference Papers |
1992-1995 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/1 | 4552-001 | Abstract: Uniform Labor Go[l]dfish Bowl
Bargaining From |
1934-1957 |
Seattle 1900-1920 From Boomtown, Urban
Turbulence, to Restoration by Richard C. Berner |
1992 | ||
Democracy and Productivity A Brief Historical
Perspective by Del Castle |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/3 | 4552-001 | How Shall We Remember the Seattle General
Strike? By Ottilie Markholt |
1994 |
British Columbia and the Mining West by David
Roth and Allen Seager |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/4 | 4552-001 | The Wise Use Movement and the Politics of
Disinheritance by David A. Mazza |
1995 |
What Jobs in the Woods? Challenge and
Transition for the Forest Workforce by Charles Spencer, Flaxen D. L. Conway,
and Bob Warren |
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Communities Facing the Ax: the Human and
Ecological Consequences of the Narrative of Sustained Yield Forestry by Stan
Beyer |
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Ethnicity and Class Issues in the Muckamuck
Restaurant First Nations Workers; Trade Union Dispute, Vancouver (1978-1983) by
Janet May Nicol |
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Creating a Dialogue Towards Ecounionism by
Christine Micklewright |
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Of Time and Terrain in the American West The
Industrial Interlude by William G. Robbins |
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Job versus Parks: The Environment and
Vancouver's Early Labour Movement by Mark Leier |
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CAW Lower Mainland Environmental Committee
Presentation to CAW National Task Force April 5, 1994 |
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Class and the Environment, Historically and in
the Present by John Bellamy Foster |
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Across Their Backs: Forms of Work Organization
and the Politics of Sustainability Learning From the Columbia River Salmon
Fisheries by Blaine Vogt |
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Of Time and Terrain in the American The
Industrial Interlude by William G. Robbins |
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More Than Mere Survival: Placer Mining in
1930s British Columbia by Lesley Cooper |
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Creating a Dialogue Towards Ecounionism by
Christine Micklewright |
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Subject Series |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/5 | 4552-001 | Beck, Dave |
1977-84 |
3/6 | 4552-001 | Flathead Community College Foundation (Perry
Melton) |
1979 |
3/7 | 4552-001 | Handcox, John |
1985 |
3/8 | 4552-001 | Laborers’ International Union of North America.
Local 348 |
1980 |
3/9 | 4552-001 | Miller, Jack |
1977 |
3/10 | 4552-001 | P-I Strike Commemoration |
1986 |
3/11 | 4552-001 | “Pioneer Alaskeros” Documentary Project |
1986 |
3/12 | 4552-001 | “Seattle 1919” - rock opera by Fuse
Music |
1981-88 |
3/13 | 4552-001 | “Sticking to the Union” - oral history project by
Jeremy R. Egolf |
1984-85 |
3/14 | 4552-001 | Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Spanish
Civil War Commemoration |
1986 |
3/15 | 4552-001 | Washington Commission for the Humanities
Grant |
1987 |
George Underwood |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/16 | 4552-001 | Subject Series - Industrial Workers Of The
World |
1971-77 |
Accession No. 4552-002: Pacific Northwest Labor History Association records, 1947-2015Return to Top
Scope and Content: Printed programs, photos, CD and DVD recordings, and ephemera document the proceedings of the PNLHA Annual Conference from 1947 to 2015. Correspondence, minutes, reports, and agendas document the activities of the PNLHA executive board from 1999-2000.
Restrictions on Access: Some restrictions on access. Contact repository for details.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
Acquisition Info: Ross Rieder, 2016
Separated Material: Relocated from the Ross Rieder Audio and Video Collection (5930-001), 2016-16-03.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Accession | ||
1 | 4552-002 | Conference Proceedings and Speakers
recordings |
1979-2015 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/1 | 4552-002 | Conference programs, photos, ephemera |
1947-1976 |
1/2 | 4552-002 | Conference programs, photos, ephemera |
1976-1979 |
1/3 | 4552-002 | Conference programs, photos, ephemera |
1980-1990 |
1/4 | 4552-002 | Conference programs, photos, ephemera |
1989-1991 |
1/5 | 4552-002 | PNLHA Executive Packets |
1999-2000 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Labor union locals--United States--History--20th century
- Labor union meetings--United States--History--20th century
- Labor union rules--United States--History--20th century
- Labor unions--Congresses
- Labor unions--Northwest, Pacific
- Labor unions--United States--History--20th century
- Labor--United States--History--20th century
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Beck, Dave, 1894-1993--Correspondence
- Handcox, John L., 1904-1992--Correspondence
- Miller, Jack R. (Jack Richard), 1916-1994--Correspondence
- Underwood, G. (George), 1880-
Corporate Names
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Industrial Workers of the World--Correspondence
- Laborers' International Union of North America. Local 348--Correspondence
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Association--Archives
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Association--Congresses
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Association--Correspondence
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Rieder, Ross K (creator)
Corporate Names
- Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (creator)
- Laborers' International Union of North America. Local 348 (creator)
- Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (creator)