Herb Mills: Family Man, Longshoreman, Student Movement Leader, Labor Leader, Strategist, Actor, Scholar, A Tribute

A Collection of his writing, stories about him, interviews with him, articles about him including analyses of his intellectual and public life, and tributes to him, with accompanying documents and photography. 

A Collection of his writing, stories about him, interviews with him, articles about him including analyses of his intellectual and public life, and tributes to him, with accompanying documents and photography. 

Mike Miller, editor

Joe Blum & Patricia Goudvis, photography

As many of you will remember, Herb was an important contributor to the Berkeley student movement.  He played a major role in SLATE, the campus political party, and the 1960 student-led anti-HUAC demonstrations.  He traveled throughout the country discrediting the right-wing film that claimed to document the HUAC events.

In 1963, he left a promising academic career to become a San Francisco Bay Area longshoreman, and a leader in the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU)–one of the most progressive unions in the country.

During those years, and in his retirement, Herb wrote numerous articles, papers and monographs on the student movement, the ILWU, the pre- and post-containerization nature of longshore work, and related matters.  Some of these have been published–usually in specialized labor history or labor economics journals.  

During his leadership in Local 10, he was the chief organizer of the union’s actions against dictatorships in Chile, El Salvador, Philippines and South Korea.  He was invited to the inauguration of Kim Dae Jung as President of South Korea—as a “thank you” for saving Kim’s life.

These stories and more are part of this book, as well as wonderful photographs by Joe Blum and Patricia Goudvis.

In addition, in 1999 Herb did an oral history with ILWU oral historian Harvey Schwartz.  Excerpts from the oral history are part of the book as well.

The book is nearing completion.  We are now raising funds for its publication and distribution (it will be self-published).

We’re writing to ask for your financial support for this project. Checks should be made to “OTC” and mailed to:

Herb Mills Legacy Project
442 Vicksburg Street, San Francisco, CA  94114
Please write “HMLP” on the memo line
Or:
You can use PayPal, HERE

If you do not want your donation acknowledged in the book, please let us know.   

Many thanks in advance for your support, and for past support to those who have already given.

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Note: Mike Miller is a contributer to the Stansbury Forum and Peter Olney, who has contributed an essay for the book, is the Stansbury Forum’s co-editor.

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