The Shipboard Murder Case: labor, radicalism, and Earl Warren, 1936-1941
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interviews conducted 1972-1975 by Mimiam F. Stein for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1976 :
Contributors: Stein, Mimi.; Ramsay, Ernest G., 1909-; Grossman, Aubrey, 1911-; Harris, Myron, 1888-1973.; Resner, Herbert, 1909-; Johnson, Miriam Dinkin.; Odeen, Peter.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1972
Subjects: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.; Bridges, Harry, 1901-; Laborers -- California.; Strikes and lockouts -- California.; Labor unions -- California.; California -- Politics and government.
Description: Interviews with six participants in the 1936 murder case (known also as the King-Ramsay-Conner case) which involved Earl Warren as Alameda Co. district attorney and members of the Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Association as defendants. Copies of photographs and documentary material included. Ernest G. Ramsay: Reminiscences of a Defendant in the Shipboard Murder Case. Aubrey Grossman: A Defense Attorney Assesses the King, Ramsay, Conner Case. Myron Harris: A Defense Attorney Reminisces. Herbert Resner: The Recollections of the Attorney for Frank Conner. Miriam Johnson: The King-Ramsay-Conner Defense Committee, 1938-1941. Peter Odeen: Captain of the Point Lobos. Interviews also include comments on the labor movement on the Bay Area waterfront in the 1930's, Harry Bridges, the influence of the communist party in maritime unions, etc.

Other topics in interview recordings: law enforcement in Alameda County, maritime labor, the Julia Vickerson affair, Tong wars in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, International Labor Defense and American Civil Liberties Union, the 1934 strike in San Francisco, Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, etc.
Table of contents: value: Phonotape 916, Grossman interview, Feb. 6, 1973. Track 1: 943 ft., track 2: 943 ft.; value: Phonotape 917, Harris interview, July 14, 1972. Track 1: 1004 ft., track 2: 336 ft.; value: Phonotape 918, Johnson interviews: Reel 1: Apr. 30, 1970. Track 1: 1031 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 2: Nov. 17, 1975. Track 1: 1022 ft., track 2: 1039 ft. Reel 3: Nov. 17, 1975. Track 1: 1037 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 4: Nov. 24, 1975. Track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: 1038 ft. Reel 5: Nov. 24, 1975. Track 1: 645 ft., track 2: blank; value: Phonotape 919, Odeen interview, Sep. 26, 1972. Track 1: 1056 ft., track 2: 456 ft.; value: Phonotape 920, Resner interview, Oct. 10, 1972. Track 1: 691 ft., track 2: blank; value: Phonotape 921, Ramsay interview, May 17, 1972. Reel 1: track 1: 731 ft., track 2: 717 ft. Reel 2: track 1: 563 ft., track 2: blank. Note: Reel 1, track 2 off speed around 520 ft., last 100 ft. inaudible.; value: Phonotapes :