Stanley Weir - Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Project - Oral History Transcript

Oral History interview with Stanley Weir of ILWU, local 10. Completed on April 22, 1981. This interview is part of the Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Collection by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org Stanley Weir was the co-founder of Singlejack Press in San Pedro, California. He was a merchant seaman for several years until 1945 when he fought union leaders over their segregation policies. He became a "B-man" in the ILWU in 1959 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was expelled in 1963 with many other activists, just after the "B-men" achievement full ILWU membership, for lodging complaints against the union and its leader Harry Bridges. Weir then became a professor of labor and industrial relations at the University of Illinois until 1980. This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and full text transcription (.pdf).