Redstone Labor Temple Timeline

Pre-European History

• Mapping the Redstone
  
• The Mukwema Ohlone People
• Muwekma Ohlone Tribal history
  
• Colored Reflections
• Ohlone History
  
• An Unvanished History
  
• Wikipedia: Mission Dolores
• The First Friends of Sausal Creek
• The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin
• Ohlone Villages of the Bay Area
• Rancheria Act of 1958
  
• California's 18 broken treaties
• Ohlone mural hidden at Mission Dolores
• Andrew Galvan: Bones of Discontent
• The Little Tribe that Could
• Muni destroys Muwekma park
• SL TV: Death of a Park
• Shellmound at San Bruno

Spanish History

• Wikipedia: Mission Dolores
• Foundsf: Mission Dolores
• The Beginnings of San Francisco
• Official Mission San Francisco de assis
• Santa Clara History
• NativeWiki: Ohlone

Mexican History

• California Ranchos
• Wikipedia: Mexican Era
• Wikipedia: Alta California
  

US History 1847-Present

• Inner Mission North 1853-1943 Survey
• City within a City: Mission
  
• Mission Dolores(must see 1868 photo)
• The story of Dogpatch (Potero District)

California Labor History 1849-1900

• Inner Mission North 1853-1943 Survey
• 1849 San Francisco and Sacramento carpenters strike for $16 a day wage
  
• 1850 San Francisco Typographical Society formed by Alta California workers
  
• 1863 to 1866 San Francisco Trades Union formed which included 15 unions
  
• 1860's Charles Crocker import's thousands of Chinese workers for railroad
  
• 1867 Mechanic's State Council formed lasting into the 1870's
  
• 1870-1910 200,000 men die while constructing railroads in the U.S.
  
• 1877 The Workingmen's Party formed
  
• 1878 SF Representative of Trades and Labor Unions formed
  
• 1881 Samuel Gompers forms the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions
  
• 1882 Peter McGuire, the cofounder of the AFL calls for (Sept) Labor day parade
  
• 1885 SF Iron Trades Council is formed
  
• 1886 The Council of Federated Trades is formed with 25,000 members
  
• 1886 Founding Convention of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
  
• 1886 California Governor Stoneman declares May 11th a legal Labor Day holiday
  
• 1890 Typographers go out on strike against the LA Times
  
• 1891 Board of Manufacturers and Employers of California formed
  
• 1892 San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC) formed
  
• 1893 SFLC receives a charter from the AFL
  
• 1896 The San Francisco Building Trades Council is formed
  
• 1894 Nationwide Pullman Strike and Eugene Deb's American Railway Union (ARU) hits Southern Pacific
          SP's Collis P. Huntington pushes to import southern blacks to break the ARU
          Martial law is declared and the national guard is called out in Sacramento
          The death of workers, militia and the public sets the political/labor tone for years to come in California
  

California Labor History 1900-1930

• 1900 217 unions are operating in California
  
• 1901 SF Teamsters Strike
  
• 1901 The SFLC organizes the California Federation of Labor, which was boycotted by the Building Trades Council
  
• 1901 Union Labor Party (ULP) is formed
  
• 1901ULP Elects SF Mayors in 1901, 1903, 1905, (Eugene Schmitz) 1909 and 1911 (PH McCarthy) 
• ULP is a tenant of Labor Temple from 1915-1968
  
• 1902 The Labor Clarion begins publication as the official newspaper of the SF Labor Council with former SFLC Sec. Edward Rosenberg as editor;
  
• 1903 The AFL sends Rosenberg to the Philipines to investigate labor conditions where he starts organizing workers into unions;
  
• 9-1-1908 Labor Clarion: Metal Trades Council wins 8 hour day
  
• 1909 McCarthy pushes the construction of Hetch Hetchy and buyout of the Spring Valley Water Company
  
• 1911 Mayor McCarthy appoints SFLC's Andrew Gallagher and John Nolan to SF Board of Supes
  
• SFLC president Michael Casey is appointed to the Public Works Commission
  
• 7-22-1916 Bomb explodes at Preparedness Day Parade killing 10 with Mooney and Billing setup by a PG&E Pinkerton and prosecuted
  
• 1917 Machinists call for the removal of SFLC pres. Arthur Brouillet for public attacks on Tom Mooney;

California Labor History 1930-1970

Construction on both bridges was suspended during strike. Alcatraz was opened in August shortly after strike.

• *5-1-1934: May Day Rally flyer
  
• 5-10-1934: Maritime strike started
  
• undated 6-34? 3 page SFLC announcement and details of Joint Labor committee
  
• 6-3-1934 Strike protest Flyer
  
• 6-16-1934 West Coast Waterfront employers agreement (4 pages)
  
• 6-19-1934 ILA rally poster at Civic center rejecting
• 6-16 Ryan agreement with waterfront employers
  
• 6-21-1934 Machinists vote to support strike (awesome letterhead)
  
• 6-23-23 SFLC (signed) cover JSMC for resolution passed 6-22
  
• 7-2-1934 O'Connell letter to AFL Pres. Green on how to block
  
• 7-2-1934 Harry Bridges letter to SFLC about JSMC
  
• 7-3-1934 SFLC letter to ILA on status of 3 union strike votes
  
• 7-5-1934 Bloody Thursday
  
• 7-6-1934 SFLC resolution following Bloody Thursday
  
• 7-9-1934 Telegram from AFL (Green) to Governor Merriam
  
• 7-10-1934 Market Street Funeral
  
• *undated July 1934 Flyer: Rossi Kept his promise (pic of 2 dead men)
  
• 7-11-1934 JMSC resolution signed by Harry Bridges
  
• 7-12-1934 Restauraunt Waiver request to SFLC
  
• 7-13-1934 BTC strike committee appointments list
  
• 7-16-1934 General Strike starts
  
• 7-16-1934 AFL President Green letter to O'Connell over radicals; enclosure of July 9th letter to Mayor Rossi
  
• 7-18-1934 Police Roundup (300 arrests) and vigilante attacks of leftists
  
• 7-19-1934 strike ends maritime assoc agree to arbitration
  
• 7-20-1934 SFLC stationary testimony about delivery scandal
  
• 7-24-1934 New Republic commentary on General Strike
  
• 8-3-1934 Arbitration process agreed to
  *undated 1934 United Labor Ticket Election ballot
  
• 10-18-1934 Arbitration agreements completed
  
• *10-14-1934 Anti Hearst Examiner
  
• *Undated "CP suggested" youth front flyer
  
• 6-15-1935 News clipping locking radicals out of SFLC meetings
  
• * 7-17-1935 Strike Bulletin #3 Clyde Deal Attack and ILA actions
  
• 1-31-1936 resolution to clear ILA and radicals by calling for federal hearings on SFCL stationary
  
• 1937 AFL kicks out 8 "leftist" unions CIO formed by ousted unions
  
• 1937 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) kicked out of AFL
  
• 1-2-1939 Democrat Culbert Olson Inaugurated as Cal. Governor
  
• Sep 1939 Tom Mooney and Warren Billings is pardoned, 40,000 celebrate, marching down Market St.
  
• 11-1941 Major strike against Hotels by city unions
  1942 Racial tensions and push to municipalize the private Trolley system in the city goes big time
  
• 10-1-1943 SFLC does memoriam for the passing of Edward Rosenberg
  
• 10-8-1943 SFLC does memoriam for the passing of Edward Vandeleur
• 1945 City takes over old United Railroads company after nearly a 35 year campaign by labor
  
• 9-7-1947 Labor Clarion's last editor resigns
  
• 7-1948 ILWU requests SFLC's endorsement of new Longshoreman strike:
  
• 1950 SFLC releases multimedia presentation with Keenan Wynn called Men on the Job that documents union working conditions in the bay area with a focus on working minority conditions:
  
• 1958 SFLC merges with SF CIO Industrial Union Council
  
• 4-16-1959 The Fair Employment Practices Act is signed with Labor Temple tenant activist Bill Becker looking on
• Note: the above * events were taken from the SFLC's Radical Files
  

SF Labor Temple Timeline

Labor Temple Construction

• 9-14-1906 Formation of the SF Labor Temple Hall Association (SFLTHA) filed with Ca. Secretary of State (9-17-1906)
  
• 9-26-1906 Quit Claim form between William McCabe and Hall Association
  
• 1908 The 14th Street Labor Temple was constructed
  
• 4-15-1910 Public Notice in Labor Clarion of Plan to construct
  
• 5-8-1910 SF Hall Meeting
  
• 5-19-1910 SF Call notice of Labor Temple Hall planning meeting
  
• Dec 1910 (get date) SFLC minutes on delegates from Temple Mtg
  
• 6-17-1911 Spreckles signs over 6 deeds of 2940 property to Hall Association
  
• 6-30-1911 Hall Assoc. purchased Mortgage agreement with Spreckles
  
• 9-14-1911 Ca. Secretary of State certifies change in number of Hall Assoc directors
  
• 1912        Hall Association is leasing 14th Street Temple (ref 10-12-48)
  
• 6-1-1914 Construction Started with Groundbreaking (ref 9-7-1914)
  
• 9-7-1914 (labor day) cornerstone layed by A Gallagher and dedication speech by Mayor Rossi & PH McCarthy (images)'
• Labor Clarion prints Labor Day story on building
  

SF Labor Temple Timeline 1915-1969

• 2-26-1915 Grand Opening of San Francisco Labor Temple
  
• 5-20-1916 Pacific Coast Defense League invitation to attend planning meetings for                   the July 22, 1916 patriot's parade. (3 pages)
  
• 1917 Women's local 125 bindery union merges with mens' local 31
  
• 9-13-1919 SFLC Hall Assoc receipt for rental of auditorium to the Union Labor Party

1920

• 8-1-1921 ULP letterhead delegate invitation for Sept Party convention at the building
  
• 1923 Molders #164 becomes a tenant at Temple
  
• 1927 Machinists #68 becomes a tenant of Temple
  
• 1927 Molder's strike fund reaches over $13,000 in donations
  
• 1928-39 2 page report on PG&E spending against public power initiatives

1930

• May-Oct 1934 SF. General Strike (see above)
  
• undated 6-1934? 3 page SFLC sets up a Joint Labor committee for the strike
  
• 6-21-1934 Machinists vote to support strike (awesome letterhead)
  
• 6-23-23 SFLC (signed) cover JSMC for resolution passed 6-22
  
• 7-2-1934 O'Connell letter to AFL President Green on how to block general strike
  
• 7-11-1934 JMSC resolution signed by Harry Bridges
  
• 7-12-1934 Restauraunt Waiver request to SFLC
  
• 7-13-1934 BTC strike committee appointments list to SFLC
  
• 7-20-1934 SFLC stationary testimony about delivery scandal
  
• 1935 Metal Polishers become a tenant at Temple
  
• 6-15-1935 SFLC locks leftists out of council mtgs
  
• 1-31-1936 resolution proposing investigation of ILA and radicals by feds
  
• 1938 Chinese Garment Workers Strike
  
• 1939 New wing to Labor Temple constructed for $92K paid off in 2yrs
  

1940

• 2-26-1940 Roberts & Moore completes new wing for $92,934.43 (3rd billing)
  
• 1941 SFLC executive comittee members 2 pages
  1941 committee rules
  
• 1941 financial report for sflc
  
• 1941 total expenses for year $27K
  
• 2-11-1941 Annual SFTLHA board of directors List
  
• 1941 sflc resolution in support of the war
  
• 1941 extended financial report with assets
  
• 1941: resolution in memory of Labor Clarion editor's death: Charles Derry
  
• 1941-42 SF Hotel Strike
  
• 8-18-1941 letter to SFCL from Ickes aid in support of November campaign
  
• 9-22-1941 letter to governor olson on sflc support for charter amendment
  
• 9-24-1941 SFLC letterhead supporting public ownership ballot inititiave;.
  
• 10-2-1941 letter from governor olson supporting charter amendment
  
• 10-3-1941 SFLC appointment letter to hetch hetch committee
  
• 10-3-1941 resolution demanding end to attacks on Hollywood actors
  
• 11-13-1941 Citizen's Power committee report on November ballot spending
  
• 1941 Oct?: SFLC resolution endorsing 1941 charter amendment 2 pages
  
• 10-1941 signed resolution of the SFLC on charter amendment
  
• 1942-43 Hall board election
  
• 11-12-1946 Conklin Bros Recreation Hall tile replacement estimate
  
• 11-25-1946 Conrad Johnson itemized estimate for replacing elevator ($7K)
  
• 7-8-1947 Conklin Bros receipt for job completion (11-12-1946)
  
• 8-21-1947 Resignation letter of Labor Clarion editor Charles Brawford
  
• 9-6-1947 Clarion editor Charles Brawford resigns
  
• Undated 1947 estimate of Building Value: $150,000
  
• 12-5-1947 Salaries of SFLC
  
• 1948 Emporium Strike
  
• 1948 John O'Connel dies (sec. from 1913-1948)
  
• 1948 William P. McCabe Dies (sec. of SFLTHA)
  
• 1948 Directory of SFLC Unions (4 pages)
  
• 1948 SFLATHA Report on rental of halls and offices rental
  
• 1-18-1948 Annual SFLTHA board of directors list
  
• 3-1-1948 Travelers fire insurance policy #269888 for $22.92
  
• 6-11-1948 memo to Wm McCabe (before he dies) for receipt of barber's rent
  
• 7-15-1948 8 page Haddow building report on rents
  
• 8-25-1948 SFLTHA Meeting Minutes: Bob Haddow appointed Bldg Manager  and Johns SFLGHA Sec.
  
• 8-31-1948 Max Muldner's (Accountant) quarterly SFLTHA financial report
  
• 9-10-1948 State of Cal. memo on Hall Assoc Execs change (McCabe)
  
• 9-27-1948 Notice of meeting in room 102 (bldg Managers office)
  
• 9-27-1-948 Rental prices for halls and tenants
  
• 9-30-1948 Red Scare PR company
  
• 10-21-1948 Contents of SFLC Safe Deposit Box
  
• 12-29-1948 Hall Assoc Meeting Calendar
  
• 12-29-1948 SFLTHA meeting minutes
  
• 1-31-1949 New Boiler construction contract
  
• 2-1-1949 Hall and Office Rental Report
  
• 2-15-1949 Annual SFLTHA board of directors list
  
• 5-2-1949 Bids ($6K-$7.2K) for painting the bldg
  
• 5-10-1949 Financial report for building
  
• 6-22-1949 Contract from architect 4 painting bldg
  
• 6-23-1949 Painting contract signoff
  1949 Pool Room Report for Jan.-June 1949
  
• 1949 Work Schedule of Janitors and elevator operators
  
• 7-22-1949 Johns order on gambling in Assembly Hall
  
• 9-12-1949 $5K loan from Anglo American Bank
  
• 9-17-1949 Hall Association Financial statement
  

1950

• 1950 Tenants List
  
• 2-28-1950 Building financial statement
  
• 7-14-1950 Sec. Treasurer Johns report on removal of hall slot machines
  
• 12-13-1950 SFLC Bulletin: Men on the Job and more includes brochure copy and instruction sheet
  
• 1-31-1951 example of tenant letterhead: Retail Delivery Drivers #278
  
• undated: example of tenant letterhead: Milk Wagon Driver's #226
  
• 2-24-1951 example of tenant letterhead: Macaroni workers #493
  
• 2-28-1951 Rents receivable
  
• July-1951 $40 SFLTHA amusement device permit stamp
  
• 12-31-1951 city of SF 4 month businss license
  
• 195? Assembly Hall game prices
  
• 1952 Union Label Section campaign and bugs
  
• 3-7-1952 SFLC Minutes
  
• 3-12-1952 SFLC Bulletin on Streetcar system fare increases
  
• 4-11-1952 Plumbing bill for boiler
  
• 5-8-1952 Plumbing bill for boiler
  
• 6-16-1952 Hall Assoc. mtg over building rent prices
  
• undated SFLTHA Hall rental increase plan
  
• 6-24-1952 John's letter (example of 1952 SFLC letterhead)
  
• undated SFLTHA rental price planning document
  
• 6-27-1952 Telegram from Johns to Smith to come to meeting
  
• 7-9-1952 Note of 6-28 permanent closure of pool hall to Treasury Dept.
  
• nodate union-label memo
  
• 9-11-1952 Notice of Hall Association Meeting planned for 9-19
  
• 1-15-1953 example of tenant letterhead: Upholsters #28
  
• 1-16-1953 SFLC Minutes includes notes from SFLTHA meeting
  
• 2-21-953 1953 annual SFLTHA Directors list
  
• 2-9-1954 Annual SFLTHA board of directors list
  
• 1-22-1954 Example of electric bill (8 foot fluorescent systems)
  
• 1-22-1954 Petersen tile bid (I know him!)
  
• 11-15-1954 example of tenant letterhead: Boilermakers #1168
  
• 1955 SFLTHA workers vacation schedule
  2-7-1955 Annual SFLTHA board of directors list
  
• 3-28-1955 example of tenant letterhead: Coopers #65
  
• 6-20-1955 Labor Temple report includes bldg description & renovations Tenants by Rm number
  
• 8-10-1955 McCarthy hit sheet (not from bldg files)
  
• 9-19-195? Pension Trust form for a couple of workers
  
• 1-12-1955 Official report of CIO expulsion of communist members
  note: AFL and CIO would merge together soon after this report
  
• 8-29-1955 example of tenant letterhead: Office Employees #3
  
• 1-26-1956 Annual SFLTHA board of directors list
  
• 1955 W-2 form due on 1-31-1956: SFLTHA employment report had 21 individuals working including 13 janitors
            w-2 forms included for each employee
  
• 3-1-1956 SFLTHA minutes concerning loss of 4 large tenants
  
• 3-7-1956 Note to tenants on SFLC letterhead for
• 3-19 meeting of bldg status
  
• 3-30-1956 SFLC goes public with plans to sell building and abandons 3rd floor
  
• 7-27-1956 agreement to have Commercial Properties Realty to sell bldg
  
• 1-27-1958 Annual SFLTHA board of directors list
  
• 1-27-1959 Workmen's Comp employers report
  
• 5-12-1959 discovery of damage to 3rd floor steel frame of building
  

1960

• 7-26-1960 List of all Temple Tenants
  
• 4-1-1966 meeting called by Hall board for all tenants on 4-7-1966
  
• 4-6-1966 Painter's Union #4 leader Dow Wilson killed
  
• 4-10-1966 Standard Oil of Cal. offers $10K reward over Wilson's death
  
• 7-2-1968 Peter Blasko puts down $5,000 towards $250,000 purchase of property, with Caldwell Banker is broker
  
• 11-8-1968 Sale of building to Blasko goes public and Hall Association is shut down
  
• 6-30-1969 The SF Labor Council lease ends and they leave the building
  

SF Labor Temple Timeline 1970-2009

1970

• 1-13-1970 Escrow # 561945: Deed of Trust assignment to Peter Plasko
  
• nodate        major waterline breaks flooding halls, requiring new tiling
  
• nodate        Auditorium converted into city unemployment office

1980

• 1982 Current oldest tenant moves into building (Abalone Alliance)
  
• 1988 Roger Herried starts building recycling program
  
• 1988 Redstone maintenance man Henry Hawk dies
  
• 1989 MK Blake sells building to David Kimmel
  
• 10-15-1989 Earthquake damages old storage room, building reopens a few days after quake;
  

1990

• 11-1990 tenants organize campaign to get heat
  
• 3-1991 Building Manager Brad Towl retires and is replaced by Roger Herried
  
• 1991 Kimmel goes bankrupt due to damaged properties from 89 quake
  
• 1991 Ahekian and Company reorganize Kimmel properties
  
• 6-1992 Ahekian abandons Redstone Building property
  
• 7-1992 Court appoints Brighton Pacific to take control of Redstone
  
• 8-1992 Kimmel investor, David Luchessi takes control of Redstone
  
• 6-1995 Catholic Charities breaks contract over UMB status and leaves building
  
• 1995 Mission Legal defunded by city over embezzlement and closes
  
• 1997 Mission Area Credit Union funds misuse scandal
  
•          Feds step in and oversee reorganization
  
• 1999 Dot.com era sets off Mission anti-
• displacement campaign
  
• 8-26-1999 attempt to sell building sets off campaign with tenants
  
•                   Big 5 meet in Rhino main theater
                    The 5 biggest tenants sign a letter to the owner
  
• 9-15-1999 first tenants meeting occurs in Rhino basement theater
  
• 9-22-1999 2nd meeting RTA voted on, with concensus suggested as process
  
• 9-29-1999 RTA & Rhino Meet with Mayor's office
  
• 9-29-1999 Bay Guardian article mentions building in article
  
• 10-4-1999 RTA Meeting
  
• 10-25-1999 Lab Fundraising event ($1,320.00)
  
• 11-10-1999 RTA Meeting
  
• 11-29-1999 S.F. Examiner front page article
  
• 12-8-1999 ARIS donation (50.00)
  
• 12-9-1999 SEIU local 535 Donation ($600.00)
  
  

2000

• 1-31-2000 Sister's of Perpetual Indulgence ($50)
  
• 2-1-2000 National Trust for Historic Preservation Grant Deadline
  
• 2-16-2000 RTA Meeting
  
• 2-19-2000 Aztlan Underground/EDN Benefit ($95 of $140 received)
  
• 3-7-2000 National Trust Grant given to us
  
• 3-14-2000 David Spero (75.00 MHEvent)
  
• 3-23-2000 S.F. Examiner article with "Redstone... on the block"
  
• 3-30-2000 RTA General Mtg
  
• 4-6-2000 RTA General Mtg
  
•                 Mission Statement created
  
•                 Job, Appraisal & website committees formed
  
• 4-27-2000 RTA General Mtg (tentative) with Emilio Cruz or MHDC
  
• 4-28-2000 Castro Theatre Fundraising Event
  2001 RTA obtains major grant to investigate purchase of building
  
• 7-31-2004 Tenants celebrate SF historic status for Redstone (#238)
  
• 3-2008 Mission Area Credit Union leaves Redstone after 31 years
  
• 7-2009 Rhinoceros Theater leaves building after over 25 years
  
• 7-24-2009 LaborFest event: Redstone Past and Present