Occupation – Longshoreman
Leo Lythel Robinson (1937–2013)
“Image Courtesy of David Bacon” A rank-and-file activist in the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Leo Robinson was best...
Benjamin Harrison Fletcher (1890-1949)
Benjamin Fletcher, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1890, was the most important African American in the most influential radical union...
Isaac Morrow (1940- )
Isaac Morrow, a former foreman at the Port of Tacoma, introduced the concept of on-dock intermodal shipping, which raised the...
Ernest C. Tanner (1889-1956)
Tacoma, Washington labor leader Ernest Charles Tanner (Ernie) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 5, 1889. His father was...
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Local 8 (1913-ca. 1928)
Local 8 was an interracial, multiethnic local that was part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a militant,...
