Published by
the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union.
Produced and printed at
Inkworks, Berkeley, California.

©Copyright by the ILWU. 1997.

Text and Research by
Eugene Dennis Vrana,
ILWU Associate Director of Education and Librarian,
ILWU Department of Research & Education.

Additional research by Harvey Schwartz.

Edited by
Steve Stallone,
Assistant Editor of The Dispatcher,
ILWU Communications Department,
and Marcy Rein,
Editorial Assistant.

Graphic design by
Warren Lee and Steve Stallone.

Photographs:
Otto Hagel (from "Men and Machines" and "Men and Ships" pages 3,16,83)
ILWU Library
The Dispatcher
Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific
The Port of Seattle page 17

Oral history excerpts
edited by Harvey Schwartz from original interviews in 1996 and interviews conducted in the 1980s as part of the ILWU Oral History project co-sponsored by the union and the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. The project was initially co-directed by UC Professor David Wellman and Daniel S. Beagle, then editor of the ILWU's newspaper, The Dispatcher. 

Schwartz was the project coordinator. A number of Labor Studies students at San Francisco State University assisted with the project. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation of Oakland, California, provided funding for the project in the 1980s. Their generosity made the project possible.

Additional funding by the ILWU allowed Schwartz to transcribe and edit portions of interviews for publication in 20 installments in The Dispatcher 1994-1997, and to conduct new interviews on subjects not included in the original project. The Labor Archives at San Francisco State University gave permission for inclusion of interviews conducted by Schwartz under its sponsorship.

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