Karl Yoneda and Elaine Black Yoneda - Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Project - Oral History Transcript

Oral History interview with Karl Yoneda and Elaine Black Yoneda of ILWU, local 10 and the US Communist Party. Completed on January 26, 1984. This interview is part of the Howard Kimeldorf Oral History Collection by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org Karl Yoneda was a known Communist and a San Francisco longshoreman of Japanese descent, he was sheltered by his co-workers when government officials came to the docks early in the war to take him into custody for internment in a relocation center. The Communist Party suspended Yoneda during the war, and the ship-owners opposed his registration in the industry. Only the ILWU came to his defense, as they did for other persecuted Japanese-Americans. This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and full text transcription (.pdf).