URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Gene Allen
Variants
- Viernes, Gene, -1981
- Viernes, Gene, d. 1981
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1951-08-15
Death Date
- 1981-06-01
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Alaska Cannery Workers Association
Has Affiliation
Descriptor
- Filipino Americans
Descriptor
- Seattleites
Birth Place
- Yakima (Wash.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
Additional Related Forms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Viernes, Gene, -1981
- Viernes, Gene, d. 1981
Sources
- found: NUCMC data from U. of Wash. Lib. for ILWU, Local 37. Papers, 1933-1980(Gene Viernes, d. 1981, sec-treas. of the union)
- found: Domingo, Cindy. Cindy Domingo papers, 1973-2010, finding aid, viewed August 21, 2020:Biographical note (On June 1st, 1981, Cindy's brother Silme Domingo, a KDP organizer and union reform activist in ILWU Local 37, was assassinated along with fellow union leader Gene Viernes) - http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv09942
- found: Wikipedia, August 21, 2020:Gene Viernes (Gene Allen Viernes was a Seattle-based Filipino American labor activist best known for his efforts to reform Local 37, the Seattle chapter of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and for having been murdered on June 1, 1981) sidebar (born August 15, 1951, Yakima, Washington) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Viernes
- found: Churchill, Thomas. Triumph over Marcos, 1995:pages 26-27 (Spring/Summer 1973. Silme [Domingo] and other progressives created the Alaska Cannery Workers Association; the founding members of ACWA included Nemesio [Domingo] Jr., Bruce Occena, David Della, Michael Woo and Gene Viernes)
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Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1988-11-23: new
- 2020-12-12: revised
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