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Lithuanian Jew growing up in the Bronx; education, UCLA, UC Berkeley; Communist candidate for Berkeley City Council, 1933; 1936 warehouse strike, San Francisco; the new International Longshoremen's Union, 1937: Harry Bridges, West Coast director, Goldblatt, Northern California director; secretary-treasurer, California CIO Industrial Union Council, 1938-1942; return to ILWU as Mid-West organizer, secretary-treasurer; first ILWU Longshore Hawaiian contract, 1945; assault on Hawaii Big Five; strikes: sugar, 1946, pineapple, 1947, Hawaii longshore, 1949; attacks on ILWU, Bridges, by government, Teamsters; effects of cold war furor; Jack Hall indicted, vindicated; Paul St. Sure; Goldblatt-Bridges schism; ILWU and Teamsters form Northern California Warehouse Council; Jimmy Hoffa; Bridges' attempt to oust Goldblatt; events of the 1960s; peace mission to Israel; retirement, 1977, and travel to China.

Title
Louis Goldblatt: Working Class Leader in the ILWU Volume II
Creator
Goldblatt, Louis, interviewee
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 1980
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Commerce, Industry, and Labor Oral Histories Individual Interviews
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Advocacy and Philanthropy
Commerce and Industry
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Text
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Oral histories.
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Goldblatt, Louis. "Louis Goldblatt: Working Class Leader in the ILWU Volume II." Interview by in . Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
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