Archie Brown - Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Project - Oral History Transcript

Oral History interview with Archie Brown of ILWU, local 10. Completed on September 12, 1981, and September 7, 1982. This interview is part of the Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Collection by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org Archie Brown became a committed communist in 1928 after he helped organize a newspaper strike, joining the Young Communist League in 1929. He joined the waterfront union movement after the 1934 Strike in San Francisco. He participated in both the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Most notably he was the West Coast longshoremen's union leader involved in the 1965 Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Communists to serve as union officials. He retired from the longshoremen's union in 1976. This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and full text transcription (.pdf).