Bill Bailey - Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Project - Oral History Transcript

Oral History interview with Bill Bailey of ILWU, local 10. Completed on September 15, 1981. This interview is part of the Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Collection by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org Bill Bailey grew up in poverty in New York, he was considered an antifascist in his youth. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and was a business agent for MFOW during World War II. He joined the Marine Workers Industrial Union in 1934 and attended the Communist Party's national training school after which he was sent to several difficult organizing posts across the United States. He would eventually be elected dispatcher at ILWU Local 10 in San Francisco. He continued to be an activist until his death in 1995. This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and full text transcription (.pdf).