National Lawyers GuildSan Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Testimonial Dinner 1991

HonoringAllan Brotsky

National Lawyers Guild Bay Area ChapterExecutive Board MembersLinda Fullerton, PresidentStan Zaks, Vice President

Barrie Becker, Student Vice PresidentEmily Graham, Co-TreasurerAndy Krakoff, Co-Treasurer

Steve CollierDan FeinbergBob Feinglass

Cindi FoxTerry Koch

Hillary KramerRachel LedermanToby Lieberman

Celia McGumnessBob MeolaTom Meyer

Christopher MillerAnn Noel

Antonio Salazar-HobsonSteve ShermanBobbie SteinJohn True

Terri WallerSchool Representatives

Erica Etelson, Book Hall Law SchoolSteve Greenwood, San Francisco Law SchoolDavid Hershey-Webb, Golden Gate University

Chet Hewitt, New College School of LawCindi Mishkin, University of San Francisco

Beth Morrow, Hastings College of LawPeter Omarzu, New College School of Law

Brett Reid Parker, University of San FranciscoTheresa Swanick, Golden Gate University

Guild StaffLora Dierker, Membership Coordinator

Riva Enteen, Demonstrations Coordinator

Cover photo by Susan Ehmer

I would like to congratulate you on honoring Allan Brotsky. He was my teacher, and an inspiring one he was! His classroom delivery had the smoothness of fine wine, and a hidden punch. It's been ten years and the memory lingers.

- Nancy M. Doctor

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Allan Brotsky and Who OwnsPort Chicago

John Fleming, 21, a student, was arrested late Wednesday afternoon as he placed a Bible and a sign citing the articles of the Nuremburg war crimes trials against the windshield of a truck- load of napalm bombs whose path he’d just blocked. He is among 32 anti-war demonstrators arrested since early Monday morning for attempting to stop delivery of napalm and other explosives to the Naval Weapons Station just outside the town of Port Chicago [Port Chicago Defendants1 Statement: August, 1966].

n August, 1966, the United States was busy dropping bombs on a small Third World country which it had branded as an aggressor (sound familiar?). The country was North Vietnam

and the bombs were napalm. Outraged by that war and the use of napalm bombs, protestors held vigils and demonstrations at the North Contra Costa County Naval Base of Port Chicago (the same base at which Brian Wilson lost his legs 20 years later). Thirty-two people were arrested for placing themselves in front of trucks bringing napalm onto the Port Chicago Naval Base for shipment to Vietnam. Protestors sat on the road and in the two entrance gates to the Port Chicago base. Those sitting in the entrance gates were arrested by military police and charged with trespassing on a federal reservation (the Port Chicago Naval Base).

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Peter Franck, a young lawyer who had just three years earlier begun practicing law in Berkeley, was coordinating a legal defense organization made up of Guild attorneys called ‘The Council for Justice.” Funded by a Santa Barbara millionaire concerned that the young civil rights and anti-war protestors of the time were not getting adequate legal representation, and guided by Francis Heisler, a World War II pacifist and conscientious objectors* lawyer originally from Chicago, The Council for Justice had taken on the

job of providing legal counsel in a broad range of antiwar, civil rights and civil liberties cases for the activists of the Bay Area; its representation extended as far as Cesar Chavez and his (then) new farmworker movement in Delano.

The case of the Port Chicago demonstrators who were accused of trespassing on a federal reserve was to be tried in federal court, which “upped the ante”, in terms of potential penalties and the seriousness of the trial. Knowing this, Franck went to the experienced and highly regarded Guild attorney Allan Brotsky and asked him to handle the federal case. After looking into the case, Brotsky agreed to take it. His assessment was that it would have to go to jury trial. He had one condition, which was that Franck try the case with him.

What Allan knew was that I had been so busy organizing and coordinating that I had had little experience in the courtroom. Not admitting that I was scared of trial, I told him that I was much too busy to take on a jury trial and that he should handle the case himself.

Allan, in his stubborn way, single-mindedly insisted that there was only one way he would take on the case, and that was with my help. I knew, and he knew I knew, that he thought that it was time for me to get out from behind the coordination desk and into the trenches of actual movement trial work. This was the best and most generous type of mentoring of the next generation.

The teaching had only begun. The case went to trial before United States District Court Judge Lloyd Burke on January 11th, 1967. Burke was a crusty Nixon appointee who had neither sympathy nor patience with anti-war demonstrators.

After some preliminary motions, a jury was seated and the government asked the defense to stipulate to a number of routine matters. The stipulations would speed the trial and avoid boring the jury. Among the proposed stipulations was that the U.S. government owned the land on which the Port Chicago Naval Base sat. Since the offense was trespassing on a federal reserve, a key element of the prosecution was that the land in question belonged to the federal government.

Brotsky, being ornery (I thought) and not liking the government much, said we should refuse to stipulate. I thought this was silly and would simply waste time, but bowed to Allan's greater experience.

The government opened its case with an expert on title to the land. In his tenacious fashion, Brotsky started questioning the government witness. Taking him through entire documents, Brotsky

insisted on knowing how the federal government had acquired the land. The expert testified that it was through the equivalent of federal eminent domain. Where were the eminent domain documents? The expert did not know. Where were the references in the records to the particular tract of land on which the defendants had been arrested? Well, they could only find reference to one of the two tracts. The other was not actually referred to in the documents that he had.

It turned out that the federal government had never properly acquired the land at the section of the Port Chicago Base on which some of our clients had been arrested. There had therefore been no trespass, and Judge Burke was forced to dismiss all charges against those defendants.

Throughout this process, Allan exhibited the combination of good humor, seriousness, devotion to his clients and distrust of the government which are his hallmark and the hallmark of all good people's lawyers. He also exhibited a generosity of sharing his experience and a commitment to teaching and passing it on which one young lawyer never forgot.

Allan's argument to the jury, on our clients' peaceful and Nuremburg intent, was so powerful that Judge Burke stopped him in the hall two days later and complimented him on it. Incidentally, it led to a hung jury (ten to two for acquittal) and the subsequent dismissal of all charges by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Allan Brotsky, a lawyer, a teacher, and a role model for all of us.

by Peter Franck

FIRST YEAR TRIUMPHS:Allan Brotsky

By Cindy Ossias

The following article was originally written for The Caveat. the student newspaper of Golden Gate University School of Law, in 1980.

t was a dark and stormy Monday. I slid into a seat in the back of the room hoping to be overlooked. Not only had I not briefed Buckeye Boiler Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles

County, I hadn’t even glanced at it. I’d had a good weekend.I

Al Brotsky leaned against the lectern, his full head of white hair renewing my awe of older men. If I were male, I’d want to look just like him when I grew up.

He called for plaintiff’s counsel to rise.“Would Melvin Belli and Bella Abzug please stand?“And Deborah Halvonik and William Kunstler?”Attorneys for the defense joined them.With the timing of George Bums and the gentleness of Kwang

Kai Chang, Professor Brotsky began leading them through their paces.

“Melvin, whom do you represent?”I kept an ear open while I suffered with my hangover. (Too

many boilermakers...)“I represent a California resident and employee of the

California General Electric Company who was injured when a pressure tank exploded, and who was further injured by a fall in the hospital.”

What a mouthful, I thought, the right side of my head

pounding. Would I ever be able to speak in sentences that long? And not forget the first few words by the time I reach the end?

“Bella, do you agree with your colleague?”At that, I noticed an audible intake of breath from my own

colleagues.“Yes, I do.”The woman on my left leaned over and whispered, “Bella told

us she was representing Buckeye Boiler. I’m glad she changed her mind.”

I opened one eye slowly — the one on the opposite side of the throbbing — and attempted to follow the proceeding more closely.

“What did your client tell you he wanted from thislawsuit?”“Money...” answered Bella emphatically.Carefully, with empathy for the plight of the fourth-week first-

year student, the professor said,“We in the legal community refer to money as 'compensation

for damages or injuries’. You’re doing just fine, though. Let’s go on.”

The throbbing began to subside as I tuned in to the finer techniques of pedagogy practiced by this distinguished gentleman in the charcoal gray suit. Uncle Brotsky (as I’d overheard someone call him ...behind his back) was deliberately, articulately, and with the skill only years of experience can bring, eradicating my hangover. I was one, maybe two, steps away from actually enjoying the learning process.

The time flew. The moderately Socratic interrogation continued and the burden shifted from the Belli-Abzug team to the Halvonik-Kunstler team. All parties involved seemed well prepared. (But what do I know? I am, as a rule, easily impressed...)

It gradually became clear that the “distinct preponderance of relevant evidence in California militates against the defendant’s avoidance of jurisdiction.” (—A. Brotsky)

“Melvin, how do you feel now that your client can bring the action in his home state?”

Silence. A pause.“You’re happy for your client, aren’t you, Melvin?”Melvin gazed straightfaced at Al and said, “Yes. I’m happy for

him.”Still straightfaced, “I’m extemely happy for him.”A slow sardonic grin creased the wizened face at the lectern.

‘Wednesday, we’ll discuss Worldwide Volkswagen v. Woodson.”

I left the room inspired, singing sotto voce:Hey, can’t you remember? You called me ‘Al’It was ‘Al’ all the time...Say, don’t you remember? I’m your pal..Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Anytime, Al...

Allan Brotsky, Union Lawyerby Norm Leonard

& Bill Carder

llan Brotsky has represented unions throughout his long career as a progressive lawyer. In 1948, he joined the San Francisco firm of Gladstein, Anderson, Resner & Sawyer,

counsel to many of the CIO unions in the Bay area. The firm’s clients included the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), the United Auto Workers (UAW), and the United Steel Workers. Allan’s considerable legal talents were immediately put to use by the labor movement in its struggles for economic justice. Among the many important cases he worked on was Tuneau Spruce, a landmark case arising from the ILWU’s organizing efforts in Alaska, which he argued in the United States Supreme Court. Allan also achieved a number of significant legal victories for the Marine Cooks and Stewards, the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and other progressive unions.

In addition to his role as a labor lawyer, Allan also played a key role in defending union activists and others on the left from the vicious attacks of the Government during the McCarthy era. To cite just one example, he was deeply involved in the defense of the Los Angeles Smith Act prosecutions.

In 1957, Allan left the Gladstein office to form a new firm, McMurray, Brotsky, Walker, Bancroft & Tepper. As a partner in that firm, and later as a sole practitioner in San Francisco, he continued to provide outstanding legal representation to Bay Area unions such as Warehouse Local 6 and Ship Clerks Local 34 of the ILWU.

After joining the firm of Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan & Brotsky in 1967, Allan became counsel to the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA), the maritime union with which

he has been closely associated ever since. He also worked closely with the firm’s other partners, including Barney Dreyfus and Frank McTernan, in representing unions such as the Retail Clerks, Painters and Lithographers.

More recently, Allan has worked as Staff Counsel for the MEBA and the newly merged MEBA/NMU District 1. His talent as a legal strategist and his vast experience as a litigator have been invaluable to the union in its battles to preserve the jobs of the seamen it represents and maintain their hard-won wages, benefits and working conditions. This has been perhaps most evident in the complicated maritime and bankruptcy proceedings which arise when a shipping company goes under, leaving unpaid the wages and benefits due the seamen who operate its ships. When battalions of corporate lawyers descend on the remains of such companies, intent on making sure that the banks and insurance companies they represent come out ahead while the workers get nothing, Allan usually leads the charge for the maritime union lawyers. His grasp of the issues and his ability to outplay the downtown lawyers at their own game is nothing short of remarkable. He is the kind of tough, shrewd litigator that you definitely want on your side in a difficult fight.

Just as important, Allan’s energy, enthusiasm and unflagging sense of humor make him a real pleasure to work with. It is obvious that he thoroughly enjoys his job and is as committed as ever to protecting the interests of the working men and women that he represents. Being around him serves to remind the rest of us j ust why it is that we chose to be union lawyers in the first place.

Allan Brotsky -A Lawyer Who Took Over

The CourtroomBy Robert S. Marder

first met Al Brotsky on the picket lines of Automobile Row, circa 1963. I was a fledgling Assistant United States Attorney, active in my spare time in the N AACP and serving as the

Chairman of the NAACP Fair Housing Committee. The latter group was made up, in part, of energetic, idealistic young lawyers like myself, and we all became enthusiastic participants in the NAACP’s and companion civil rights groups* organizational efforts to persuade various employers to hire Blacks.

IFirst, we picketed the Sheraton Palace Hotel and then

turned our efforts to Cadillac Row — the gleaming automobile dealer showrooms on Van Ness Avenue. These dealers were happy to sell Black people “Detroit’s chrome beauties,” but not to employ them as visible salespeople.

The law firm of Garry, Dreyfus and McTernan, later Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan and Brotsky (which I subsequently became associated with in 1968), was legally backstopping the mass picketing campaign—providing logistical planning and preparing to avoid, if possible, and if not, to deal with the mass arrests threatened by a generally hostile San Francisco Police Department.

Allan was in the forefront of the legal and logistic planning sessions, as well as being an active participant in the actual civil rights demonstrations. What I most remember from those times was his effortlessly booming voice as he strung together facts, argument, reason, invective, hyperbole and cajolery all mixed in

beautifully resonant sentences that held the attention of the room. What great vocal cords! When Al got the floor, either sitting or standing, it was difficult for anyone else to break in. Imagine a roomful of enthusiastic and fired-up lawyers all wanting to leave some imprint on the proceedings, but forced to the sidelines by APs bravura oratorical skills.

It was about eight years later, during the San Francisco State University demonstrations and the mass arrests and trials that followed, that I again observed APs powers of oral persuasion. A Municipal Court in City Hall was the setting for the en masse trial of about twenty-five or so students being prosecuted for misdemeanor offenses, principally obstructing and resisting police who were intent on beating them around the body and head with batons. In this charged atmosphere, Al, with his booming voice, gradually assumed the role of the court’s master of ceremonies.

Instead of the judge declaring recesses (and what else are judges supposed to do?), Al would announce, whether he or the District Attorney was examining the witness at the time, “The jury looks tired. I think they could use a break now.” The judge seemed happy that someone other than himself wanted a recess, and was only too happy to oblige Al.

As the case wore on, Al seemed to inch closer and closer to the jury box, and seemed to anticipate the j urors’ every whim and every subliminal, though unexpressed, desire, whether it was for a photograph in evidence to be passed through the jury box, or to go to the bathroom.

At one of APs announced recesses, he began (by then addressing the jurors by their names), “Mrs. Goldstein (Juror No. 1), you can lead the other ladies and gentlemen to the jury room.” As he said this, Al raced from the defense counsel table to the courtroom door to hold it open for Mrs. Goldstein and her fellow jurors as they exited the courtroom. Only with supreme and laudible self-restraint, it appeared, did Al hold back from following the jurors right into the jury room to schmooze with them. As I watched incredulously—I who had been trained in the sacrosanct and sterile federal courtrooms where such antics would have earned immediate time in the U.S. Marshal’s holding cells — it seemed APs presence and voice had taken over the courtroom. Needless to say, the jurors, whether impressed or intimidated by APs masterful performance,

reached a series of acquittals on most counts and hung on the remaining counts.

Al had once again, as he has done countless times in his career, employed his considerable courtroom talents and booming voice as a trial lawyer in the service of constitutional rights, defending, free of charge, people of conscience who had put their bodies on the line for a noble and selfless cause. In Al, they could not have found a finer advocate.

Allan Brotsky:Mentor for the Movement

by Paul Harris

W e were a new generation of lawyers and legal workers.Having graduated in the sixties, we started without the benefit of what would have been our chronological predecessors; McCarthyism had left few radical law graduates in the fifties. As we looked around, we saw a National Lawyers Guild made up primarily of what seemed to us to be “older” attorneys. Not only were they “old,” but they had done significant cases, some of which we had studied in law school. They were intimidating professionally, and, being well over 30, could not be fully trusted politically. This set of historical circumstances left us facing major political legal work with virtually no legal experience, a new left political perspective, and no role models. Into this void stepped people like Allan Brotsky.

Al was an active Guild member and part of an extraordinary law firm. He and his partners, Barney Dreyfus, Charles Garry, James Herndon and Frank McTernan, were a walking, talking history of constitutional and civil rights litigation.

Al played two important and inter-related roles. He acted as a bridge between the old and new left in the Guild, and he offered his time to those of us who barely knew what we were doing in court.

During the McCarthy period, the Guild was forced to close approximately 100 student chapters for fear that graduates would not be granted a bar license. Student chapters were finally established again at Boalt and Hastings, but that was not until 1964. By 1968, recent graduates had joined the organization and many new chapters had been established.

We wanted law students to have full participation in the Guild and that included the right to vote. Many older members were suspicious of these long-haired, militant- talking young people who seemed to have no respect for their elders and less respect for a “Bar Association.” After much disagreement, law students were granted the vote at the 1970 convention in Washington, D.C. Al was one of the few members of the “old guard” I could discuss the issue with. His arguments were reasonable, and no matter how forceful his advocacy became, he always would listen to what we had to say. In the end, he voted to allow law students full Guild membership.

In 1971, the Convention was in Boulder, Colorado, and there was even a hotter debate that was splitting the older and younger members: the admission of legal workers (people working in the law but not admitted to practice and mostly without any law school training) into the Guild. Faye Stender amended the proposal to include “jailhouse lawyers.”

Many of the older generation were afraid the pro-legal worker people would reshape the Guild into a movement group instead of an organization of law people who aided the movement. The debate in the Bay Area before the Convention was heated. People talked of leaving the Guild. Some younger members refused to listen to the concerns of experienced members and treated them with a rebellion usually reserved for their parents. Once again, Al was able to act as a bridge. He was an articulate, strong force who treated everyone with respect.

The Bay Area Chapter and the Convention voted to admit legal workers and jailhouse lawyers. Al’s energy was rewarded as we were able to maintain the Guild as one of the only organizations where there was a combination of political experience from the thirties and the sixties.

Al was willing to put his firm’s resources behind this development of a new Guild. In 1973, Jim Larsen was the first of the younger generation to be elected national president. Al’s office gave Jim a half-time job so he could support himself while donating the other half of his time to building the Guild. Al also took Jim under his wing, teaching him litigation skills and making sure Jim’s legal skills matched his political skills.

Al helped many young lawyers, including myself. One specific incident sticks in my mind. I had helped to organize a law collective in 1970. We had few books and little experience. Still in our twenties, it was hard to approach “famous” older lawyers for advice. Yet Al always had his door open for us to borrow pleadings,

his phone available for an emergency call when a judge threatened to kick our case out of court. Early in our practice I was thrown into a major political case. My client was wanted by the police and her photo was on the front page. I had an immediate decision to make. I called Al and rushed over to his office. There I sat in his room while two of the top lawyers in the country, Al Brotsky and Charles Garry, argued about which alternative I should take. They disagreed - loudly - as I scrunched down in my chair. An hour later I left their office, still confused, but secure in the knowledge that whichever way I decided, I had the best legal counsel on my side.

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HU AC Hearing Eviction —Oct. 23, 1948

(An excerpt from a column in the San FranciscoChronicle by Stanton Delaplane)

House Labor subcommittee combed a half dozen witnesses for alleged subversive labor activities in a wild, razzle-dazzle, noisy hearing in the Post Office building

yesterday morning...The hearing was conducted by Representatives [Charles]

Kersten [R.,Wis.] and O.C. Fisher (D., Texas)...“You’d like to impose the Soviet constitution on ours, wouldn’t

you?” said Kersten, ordering [Hugh] Bryson to sit down. Then he called Dave Jenkins.

Jenkins identified himself as director of the California Labor School...

“Do I have right of counsel? If so, I ask for Mr. Alan (sic) Brotsky.”

Brotsky stood up and was told he could advise Jenkins on his constitutional rights. Brotsky argued that he must know the scope of the inquiry in order to do this. After argument and gavel rapping, Brotsky was pushed into his seat by a bailiff...

He was up before questioning started again.As he and Kersten shouted at each other, Jenkins entered the

fray by demanding why he was called to the hearing.

“I’m no strike leader. I don’t own any ships. Why am I“I have to know what you are going to ask to protect my client,”

yelled Brotsky.“Sit down or get out!” Kersten roared, beating the gavel on the

desk. A bailiff finally led Brotsky out the door.“I don’t get it,” said Jenkins. “First you say I can have an

attorney, then you throw him out. What goes on?”“You can have an attorney,” said Kersten. “But he has to

behave...”“Then I choose Norman Leonard,” said Jenkins.Leonard rose and made the same objections as Brotsky and was

promptly tossed out..

It's The Beatnik Who Pays: Cop Snub Costs $2*50 Tax

(reprinted from an article in theOct. 2, 1959 San Francisco Cronicle)

earded Wilder Bentley paid $2.50 yesterday for declining to help a policeman in distress.B

It was one of those Beatnik things.Not the $2.50. That was a square State tax.But the original thing that brought Bendey before Mu^

nicipal Judge Albert Axelrod yesterday was Beatnik business.He had been jailed Sept. 2 for violating a State law by

refusing to help Patrolman Joe Barlik put the collar on Bentley’s roommate, Norman Rose, who owed the city some long green on traffic warrants.

Judge Axelrod convicted Bentley and placed him on six months probation, on condition he pay a $50 fine.

Bendey didn’t have the $50.Neither did his attorney, Allan Brotsky. But Brotsky had a

suggestion. Since Bendey had spent one night in city prison, he proposed, then why not credit this time against his fine.

Judge Axelrod agreed, but pointed out that Bentley still must pay a $2.50 State tax on this fine. This Bentley had.

And if it’s any consolation to him, the tax goes into a fund for training policemen. So maybe next time Bentley’s assistance won’t be needed.

Allan BrotskyBiographical Notes

by Lisa Honig

llan Brotsky was bom in Detroit, Michigan. His father, Jacob, and mother, Jennie, came to the United States from Latvia in 1915, and his father became an industrial

worker. When Al was eleven, his family moved to Denver, Colorado, in part, because Denver provided a healthier environment for his father, who had contracted tuberculosis from his work at Briggs Auto Body. Al lived in Denver for five years, where he finished high school and attended Colorado University for a year. In 1936, Al moved to Los Angeles to enroll at UCLA, from which he received his Bachelor’s Degree in economics in 1939.

Al first became politicized at Colorado University, where he became active in the Oxford Peace Pledge, a pacifist movement originating in Oxford University, England, which became the basis for the building of a peace movement in the United States. When Al transferred to UCLA, he immediately became active in the American Student Union, a progressive student organization. He also became interested in the labor movement, and began to study the origins of the CIO. It is not surprising, then, that his next major political activity was organizing cannery workers.

Al became involved with the cannery workers in Los Angeles by becoming one. He and his friends were looking for summer work in college, and one of his friends told Al about jobs in the canneries. Al worked in the cannery in the summers of 1938 and 1939, where he experienced first hand the working conditions for cannery workers, including the long hours and low wages. In response to these conditions, Al and his friends suggested to their fellow workers that they consider unionizing. A visit to Dorothy Healy, then Dorothy Ray, who was the staff organizer for the United Cannery, Agricultural, Processing and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA, the predecessor of the CanneryWorkers) put the idea into action, and a union effort began. At that time, the labor board did not cover agricultural workers or those who processed

agricultural products. As a result, the workers could not simply file a petition for an election, but had to go out on strike, which they did, and won, in 1939.

Meanwhile, Al had applied to and been accepted at Columbia Law School, which he began in 1939. By the time he began law school, he knew he wanted to became a labor lawyer. Attending law school did not slow APs political activities. He became involved in organizing the American Law Student Association (ALSA), which became the precursor of the student section of the National Lawyers Guild. ALSA had its founding convention at Howard University in Washington D.C. in the spring of 1941. This was the beginning of APs involvement with the National Lawyers Guild, which continues to this day.

After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1942, Al went to work for a labor law firm in New York City, where he remained for six months before going into the Army. Of course, APs political reputation preceded him, and because he was considered politically suspect (i.e. radical) he was not sent overseas during the war. Al spent three and a half years in the service, during which he was sent to various Army schools, and was eventually assigned to an ordnance plant in Dixon, Illinois, where, in APs words, ‘There is nothing to do.” However, one thing he did do during that time was meet and marry his wife Muriel.

In 1946, Al got out of the service and returned to California, where he passed the California Bar. He and Muriel decided to move back to New York, to be closer to her family. In New York, Al joined the legal staff of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (UE), as assistant general counsel under the supervision of Dave Scribner. After six months, Al and Muriel decided to return to California and they setded in San Francisco.

Al hoped to be able to work for Gladstein, Andersen, Resner and Sawyer, the leading progressive labor firm, when he came back, but the firm had no openings. Instead he went to work at the law firm of Vaughns &. Berkley, the first interracial law firm in the Bay Area. Then in 1947, when there was an opening at the Gladstein firm, Al took the job to continue his practice in labor law. As Al put it, “Here was my big dream, labor law.”

Al says of his early days with Gladstein, Anderson, Resner and Sawyer, “I got into big stuff pretty fast.” That’s putting it mildly. One of the firm’s main clients was the ILWU and its locals. They were at the cutting edge of the wave of post war strikes. Among them was the 1948 maritime strike on the West Coast. This strike

was the occasion for the federal government’s first use of the 80-day injunction against strikes affecting national health and safety, under the Taft Hartley Act.

Then, in 1949, the national CIO began to expel alleged communist-dominated unions. The ILWU and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, both of which were clients of Al’s firm, were expelled. A series of cases ensued between the national CIO and the locals, fighting over who was going to be the legal collective bargaining agent for the locals involved. “We won some, and we lost some,” says Al of those struggles. Shortly thereafter, the McCarthy Era began.

One of the other clients of the Gladstein firm was the Communist Party. Beginning in 1951, the firm, including Al, participated in representing defendants in the Smith Act prosecu- tions. When HUAC began its hearings, Al was involved again.

In 1957, a group of the younger lawyers at Gladstein decided to leave to form their own firm to practice labor and civil rights law. Joining Al in this effort were Lloyd McMurray, Doris Walker, Dick Bancroft and Rubin Tepper. The firm lasted three years; as Al puts it, “We went broke.” Al and Dick Bancroft went off together to share offices, and Al practiced on his own from 1960 until 1967, when he joined the firm of Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan and Brotsky.

Al knew his partners Barney Dreyfus, Frank McTernan and Charles Garry long before he joined their practice. All were members of the Guild. Al had worked with Barney Dreyfus in the fight against a loyalty oath for lawyers. In addition, Barney had been Al’s attorney when the State Bar of California instituted proceedings against Al for entering into a group legal service arrangement with Ship Clerk Local 34 of the ILWU. The very arrangement which the State Bar sought to condemn in the charges against him was encouraged by the State Bar a few years later. The California Supreme Court wrote an opinion in the case Brotsky v. State Bar, 57 C.2d 287 (1962).

Shortly after Al joined the firm, he became the attorney for the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, the predecessor of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association/National Maritime Union, which Al represents to this day. In addition to labor law, the firm was actively involved in civil rights work.

Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan and Brotsky was undoubtedly the largest progressive law firm in San Francisco. It is thus not surprising that it was to this firm that the Black Panther Party turned for representation. Within a year of Al’s joining, the Black Panther

Party became one of the firm’s clients, and everyone in the firm became involved its defense.

As the 1960’s unfolded, Al and his partners became involved in the growing civil rights movement. Al had long been a member of the N AACP, which was then under the leadership of Nat Burbridge. Nat asked Al to chair the NAACP committee coordinating the Sheraton Palace sit-downs and the Auto Row pickets. Al agreed, and as a result of the Auto Row pickets, auto dealers in San Francisco agreed to hire black salespeople.

Next came the San Francisco State College strike. Al, along with other attorneys, represented Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the publisher of the Sun Reporter. In the course of Goodlett’s trial, the prosecution made a systematic challenge of black jurors. The defense team protested, and the judge ordered the district attorney to appear and explain his actions. When the DA refused to appear, Al and his colleagues moved for a dismissal on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct. The judge declared a mistrial, and the defense appealed but lost. Several years later, the California Supreme Court recognized that this kind of misconduct was grounds for dismissal.

The firm also became involved in the peace movement. Among their cases was the 1972 effort to get an anti-nuclear initiative on the ballot in San Francisco. The initiative put San Francisco on record as supporting a nuclear test ban, and urged the President and Congress to sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Al and his firm won, in the California Supreme Court, the public’s right to have such an initiative on the ballot.

During the Vietnam War, Al lent his talents as a progressive attorney to represent draft resisters and demonstrators who had been arrested. When Angela Davis was indicted by a Marin County grand jury, Al led the defense team in the pre-trial stages of the case.

Another case Al took on was that of Elay ne Jones, a black timpanist who was refused tenure by the San Francisco Symphony. Al won her a hearing, and in the process, established that the symphony was an instrument of the state for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment, because it received financial support through tax levies.

In 1975, in the interest of trying something new, Al decided to teach a course on evidence as an adjunct professor at New College in San Francisco. The following year, in 1976, he accepted a one-year visiting professorship at the University of Puget Sound School of Law. He enjoyed teaching so much that after over thirty years of

practicing as a labor and civil rights lawyer, Al decided to become a full-time law professor.

In 1979, Al joined the faculty at Golden Gate University School of Law, where he remained until 1985. In addition to carrying a full load of courses, Al became active in the Citizens Party in the San Francisco Bay Area, through which he worked to further the effort to build a progressive political party. He also continued to represent the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. In 1985, Al left Golden Gate to became the full time West Coast Counsel for the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association/ National Maritime Union. He continued, however, as a Professor Emeritus at Golden Gate, and this fall, plans to return to Golden Gate to teach Labor and Admiralty Law.

Al Brotsky’s career is a tribute to his own deeply held convictions about the role of progressive attorneys. “What I feel is terribly important is the role of lawyers inprotec ting basic freedoms and in defending those who are at the forefront of the fight to change society for the better.”

“In a country like this,” says Al, “which is obsessed with the law, the role of progressive lawyers is clear cut. Whenever there has been a political crisis in this country, serious inroads into freedom and democracy would have resulted had there not been progressive lawyers willing to battle the government.” Al has been one of those willing to battle, and his career has served, and will continue to serve, as a model for many young attorneys who share his commitment to being a progressive lawyer.

Richard Bancroft

Biographical NotesRichard Bancroft served as a judge on the Alameda

County Superior Court for twelve years until his retirement in 1988. While a judge he was honored with the Alameda - Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers* Association designation as ‘Trial Judge of the Year** in 1987. However, as so many progressive lawyers of his generation, he began his career as a labor organizer. In his case, he organized cafeteria workers in Washington, D.C. After his graduation from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1951, Bancroft worked together with Al Brotsky and other National Lawyers Guild attorneys in a practice that focused on labor and civil rights law. Eventually, he and Al went off as young lawyers to open their practice.

Judge Bancroft also served as the director of the Bar Association of San Francisco in 1968, a founding member and di- rector of the San Francisco Lawyers* Committee for Urban Affairs in 1963, a founding member and director of San Francisco Community Boards in 1973, and a founding member of the Charles Houston Bar Association in 1957.

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Barry CommonerBiographical Notes

Al Brotsky and Barry Commoner have been friends since they were student activists. Commoner was an environmentalist before that word was commonly known. As a pioneer in the environmental movement, he now heads the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, a “think tank” which focuses on environmental issues.

Commoner combined his talents as organizer and scientist in his book, The Closing Circle, which has been a major force in making people aware of the importance of this struggle. He has also served as an advisor to the New York City Department of Sanitation, local municipalities in Italy, and many other governmental agencies in the United States. He is perhaps best known for his presidential candidacy in 1980 for the Citizens Party, the predecessor of the Rainbow Coalition which presented a similar platform of humanitarian and environmental concerns.

Rita MorenoBiographical Notes

Rita Moreno is the only female performer to have won all four of the most prestigious show business awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Grammy and the Tony. She was bom Rosa Delores Alveria in Humacao, a small town near the famous rain forest in Puerto Rico. When she was five years old, she and her mother moved to New York and the following year she started dancing lessons. At age 13 she had made her Broadway debut. Then in the true tradition of Hollywood, a talent scout arranged a meeting for 17-year old Moreno with Louis B. Mayer and she was signed to a contract with MGM. Since then her career has advanced steadily.

She also spends time working to help people of color advance in the entertainment world. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Third World Cinema, a company which is interested in creating opportunities in the film industry for minority groups, and has served as a member of the Theater Panel of the Board of Directors of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, as well as many other worthwhile organizations. Moreno is married to Leonard Gordon, who served in the army with Al Brotsky.

Guild members and friends:

As you may remember from other Guild dinners, we used to rely quite heavily on a time consuming “pitch” at the testimonial dinner, and on the generosity of those present.

Six years ago, we started our Sustainer program as a more dignified and reliable way to give our members the opportunity to help put the Guild on a solid financial ground. The Sustainer program allows us to recognize those whose regular yearly contributions are the backbone of the Chapter’s financial stability.

Sustainers contributing, over the course of a year, $1,200 or more get a package of benefits which include their dues, a sponsorship of the holiday party and the program fundraiser, their admission to chapter skills seminars, and two tickets to the annual testimonial dinner. There is a slightly smaller benefits package for people who contribute $750.This includes dues, one dinner ticket and two party sponsorships.

A portion of both Sustainer packages goes to support the National Guild programs.

We want you to consider becoming a Sustainer. If you check the box on the enclosed reply envelope a member of the Financial Advisory Board will be in touch with you to explain the Sustainer program and to get your ideas on Guild programming in general.

For those of you who are not now able to become sustaining members, the enclosed reply envelope is your opportunity to share in the financial support of the Guild with your contribution. (This is our silent pledge, folks!) If you are not a Guild member, your contribution of $50 or more entitles you to become a member of Friends of the Guild and to receive our newsletter and notice of other events.

Thank you for supporting the work of the Guild. It has never been more important.

Sincerely,

Linda Fullerton PresidentPeter FranckChair, Financial Advisory Board

Cristina Arguedas Maxine Auerbach Carolyn Patty Blum M.J. Bogatin David Borgen Anne Brandon Dale Brodsky Colette Brooks Allan Brotsky Lynne Coffin Emily De Falla John Denvir Eggleston & Siegel Cy Epstein Charlotte Fishman Peter Franck Emily Graham David Harrison Terry J. Helbush Jelinek & Samsel Stephen Kasdm Kay Kohler Cathy Komblith Andrew Krakoff Jeffrey Kupers Judy Kurtz

The National Lawyers GuildFinancial Advisory Board

Salutes Allan BrotskyOur Colleague and Inspiration

We would like to thank each Northern California member of the major sustainer program for their special commitment and support of the Guild and its work:

Jim Larson Jody LeWitter Brian McCaffrey Tom Meyer Blythe Mickelson Tanya Neiman Katherine Poss Riordan & Rosenthal David Rockwell Leslie Rose Matt RossRusso, Wemtraub & BelliaAntonio Salazpr^HobsonDavid SalnikerAlan SchlosserBrad SeligmanNancy SmithAlan SparerTom SteelKip Evan SteinbergJearxnie SternbergNorton ToobyRobert E. TreuhaftMarc Van Der HoutMarilyn WallerDoron Weinberg

Allan Brotsky, left, is escorted out of the Congressional waterfront Red hearing by United States Marshal George Vice. Photo by the San Francisco Examiner.

Defense team for Angela Davis, from left to rigfu, Howard Moore, Allan Brotsky, Dermis Roberts, Sheldon Otis and Mike Tigar-

The Men's Group, of which Allan is a member, has met every week for the past fifteen years. Seated from left to right, Allan Brotsky, Bill Moss, Bill Sermett; standing from left to right, Keith Eickman, Victor Honig and Richard Wertheimer. Photo by George T. Kruse

Allan and Muriel Brotsky.

From left to right, China, Dan and Ellen Brotsky.

District No. 1-MEBA/NMU (AFL-CIO)

(Marine Engineers Beneficial Association/National Maritime Union)

is pleased to join

in honoring

ALLAN BROTSKY

its West Coast counsel since 1968.

Congratulations Allan, and thanks for your outstanding service to the labor movement from the officers and staff of ESC-MEBA

ENGINEERS &

SCIENTISTS OF

CALIFORNIA

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"Congratulations, Dear!" "Congratulations, Dad!"

"Yay, Grandpa"You have been an inspiration to three generations in our family.

We love you.Muriel China & Danny

Ellen, Lew, Rachel & Rebecca Dan, Shawna & Leanne

To a man with generosity of spirit and devilish good looks. Thanks for all your help.Larry Engel

'AND FURTHERMORE...CONGRATULATIONS, AL!

THE GANG OF FIVELaura Woodward Peter Franck Cleveland Lee

Francis J. McTernan

Francis J. McTernan Marvin Stender Brian C. Walsh Cliff Weingus Michael Freeman

ALLEN: Your partners and associates treasure your friendship and your wisdom.

Janet King Constance A. Thomas Kathryn A. Stebner James A. Brattan Richard D. Schramm •

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90 New MontgomeryFifteenth Floor

San Francisco, 94105(415) 777-0313

101 Park Center PlazaSuite 1355

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With lovefrom all your

"North Country Girls"

Katrina

Thank you for yourservice to the labormovement. Fromthe officers andmembership of

I.L.W.U. Local 34,San Francisco

Congratulations AllanFrom the faculty and your friends at Golden Gate University School of Law

Leonard, Carder, Nathan, Zuckerman, Ross, Chin & Remar

SaluteAllan Brotsky

For his many years of dedicated service to working men and women and their unions. Keep up the fight.

Congratulations to Al Brotskyfor his committment and struggle

in representing the Labor Movement

Eggleston & SiegelPAMELA ALLEN MATTHEW KUMIN

GAIL BROWN ROBERTA BULL ELENE DALACAS

DONNA DIGIUSEPPE JIM EGGLESTON MARY

LOU HARRIS

JODY LEWITTER THERESA MORTON TIM

SCHOOLEY JONATHAN SIEGEL LISA SIMPSON

HEIDI SMYTH

Jewel & LearySANDI S. ASKINS CHRISTOPHER MILLER

PHYLLIS M. FLAGG HOWARD H. JEWEL BRIAN

OWEN LEARY RICHARD A. MANSOUR

RICHARD L. NEWMAN SHARENE V. ROSS GWENN

E. SPRATT

BEST REGARDS

Bill and Rosalie Marshalland

Myra, Evelyn and Henry

FOR AL,WHO DOBS NOT BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT OWNS ANYTHING (OR SHOULD)With affection,

- Peter Franck

THANKS TO AFRIEND, TEACHER,

INSPIRATION

DAVID E. PESONEN

With this GLLIB tribute, we salute your tireless toilsand sagacious service in the labor movement.

Guild Labor Lawyers In BurlingameA. Eugene Huguenin, Harold L. Jackson, Ramon E. Romero

Diane Ross, Antonio Salazar-Hobson, Beverly Tucker

CongratulationsWe Love Al

to our 'leader"DICK WERTHIMER BRUCE KRELL

The Men's Group JEAN HYAMS MIRK, DENISE PAUL

We salute the Guild andAllan Brotsky for their

commitment to peace and justice.Law Offices, 523 Octavia Street,

San Francisco, CA 94102

Sherry AlhawwashGrace Bautista-Aguirre

Victoria BelcoLynne S. CoffinCecilia GomezJohn HickmanFreya HorneKaren Lester

Brian McCaffreyBernadette Riordan

Dennis RiordanHarold RosenthalMarilyn WallerDoron Weinberg

Nina WilderJocilene Yue

Dear Al:

Thanks for all your training, support, perspective & friendship. I value them all.

Law Offices of Jim Larson

Thank you to the Guild for your leadershipin opposition to the Persian Gulf War.

Law Offices of Thomas Steel

Thomas Steel Stuart Buckley Jon Melrod Debra Bierman Elizabeth Pritzker Farshid Arjam Trish Freddie

Support our troops!!Bring them back to Solano County.

We could use the business.

Marvin BrooknerLinda EpleyPeter FirpoJames Fitch

Susan KaufmanGuy SandlerBrian Yagi

Emily D'OrazioHarvey Bender

Mary Ellen CorreiaFrank Epstein

Thomas HaglerDeborah LevyDavid LoweBrad NelsonBob SchrothMarc Tirrell

Bob & Maryanne WintersDavid WeintraubDaniel J. Russo

Salvatore J. BelliaAmy F. Morton

Axel DuweJill Noonan

Susan Larson

Congratulations to an inspirationfrom the folks at 901 MarketBushnell, Caplan & Fielding• Law Offices of Charlotte

Fishman Law Offices of Janet C. Mangini • Law Offices of M. Gerald Schwartzbach 901 Market St., Suite 230 • San Francisco, CA 94103Rod Bushnell • Alan Caplan • David Fielding • Charlotte Fishman

Marc Litton • Janet C. Mangini • M. Gerald Schwartzbach

We salute the Bay Area Chapterfor its anti-war work.Keep up the struggle!

Saperstein, Seligman, Mayeda & Larkin

Congratulations Allan! It feels great tobe part of the Guild at a time like this.

Law Offices of Norton Tooby516 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609

415-601-1300

IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR OUTSTANDINGADVOCACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

SIMMONS, UNGAR, HELBUSH & STEINBERG

Terry J. Helbush Teresa A.Bright

Kip Evan Steinberg Michael K. UngarDonald L. Ungar, Of Counsel

We salute you, Allan, for your commitment to civil and labor rights and to the Guild and its commitment to peace.

NoelAnne Brandon

CONGRATULATIONS PROFESSOR BROTSKY

DON AYOOB STEPHEN MATCHETT

KENT BARKHURST VICTOR MORSE

PHILIP M. BROOKS MICHAEL PESCETTA

JANA J. CLARK SARAH PLOTKIN

MARGOT GAREY LISA ROMO

NANCY GAYNOR LESLIE ROSE

KENDALL GOH KATHY SCHEIDEL

MICHAEL HERSEK PETER SILTEN

IRENE KIEBERT DAVID SUNDELSON

JOEL KIRSHENBAUM DOUGLAS WARD

SUSAN TEN KWAN JEANNE WOLFE

W.T. LOWE EVAN YOUNG

STATE PUBLIC DEFENDERS (S.F. OFFICE)

GREETINGS TO THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILDand

CONGRATULATIONS TO AL BROTSKYActivist, Lawyer & Teacher Extraordinaire

Dean Jeffrey B. KupersAssociate Dean Sheila M. O’Rourke

Professor Maxine AuerbachProfessor Rodney O. Fong

Professor David B. Oppenheimer

and the Staff and Faculty of

JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL OF LAW547 Ygnacio Valley RoadWalnut Creek, CA 94596(415) 930-6040

We Practice What We Teach

Thank you for your dedication to progressive struggles

Cooper, Arguedas & CassmanPenelope Cooper

Cris A

CONGRATULATIONS AL!

FOR ALL YOUR GREAT WORK THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. Thank you forLAW OFFICES OF MARC VAN DER HOUT SAN

FRANCISCO REDWOOD CITY

your inspiration

368918TH ST. 702 MARCHALL ST. 626-4733 361-1343

COMPLETE IMMIGRATION SERVICES

Linda Fullerton

We Support the Guild for itscontinued struggle on issues

foreign and domestic.

10th Floor Law Office Association1440 Broadway 10th Floor

Oakland, CA 94612(415) 452-1300

STEVE BEDRICK JEFFREY J. CARTER CHRIS CLEARY KYLA CLEARY MARTHA FRIEDBERG SANDRA GEIGER BATIYA JACOBS STEVE KASDIN JAY KOSLOFSKY JOAN MOCINE

MARTY NICOLAUS WILLIAM PETZEL RENA RICKLES CHERYLE ROBERTS ZONA SAGE LESTER SCHONBRUN MARY SHEEHAN LAURA SHEKERJIAN DAVID ASHLEY SMYTH HEIDI SMYTH BOB TREUHAFT

Penelope Cooper

Cris A

In memory ofFred Rosenberg

Cindy A. Ossias Bobbie Stein Billy Coman

Congratulations Al.You are a wonderful

example to us all.

Manuel Furtado Martin

Jaspovice

Rick Simons Robert Furtado

Congratulations to a true friend of laborThe Oakland Office of NTEU

Ken DonnellyCindi Fox

Lorrie GrayAndy Krakoff

Christine RallsMary Ann Tenuto

Greetings From Slgman & Lewis

U.S. Troops Out of the Middle Bast. TOWARD A FREE

SOUTH AFRICA

Stan ZaksBernadette Aguilar Paul

HarrisNLG ANTI-APARTHEID COMMITTEE

Congratulations to you, Allan.Your commitment to the cause

is inspiring.The National Jury Project

NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIASCHOOL OF LAW

The Oldest Public Interest Law School In The Country

Salutes Allan Brotskyfor his lifelong commitment to the creation

of a more just & humane society.

James Bell Joseph Billingsley Stephen Bingham Robert Burch Nalda Crain Martin Dejulia Peter Gabel Paul Harris Richard Ingram

Patricia James Chris Kanios Matthew Kumin Andrew Lichterman Sue Ellen Lunbeck F. Raymond Marks Ahuva Novak Carol Odsess Ora Prochovnick Edward Roybal

David Smith Bobbie Stein Lucia Tanyag Dean Ito Taylor Kathy Voutyras Priscilla Winslow Katharine C. Worden Jackson Wong

50 Fell Street San Francisco, California 94102 (415)863-4111

Business LawCriminal Trial & Appeal

Dispute ArkitrationDomestic Relations

Landlord/Tenant LawPersonal Injuries

Premises LiakilityReal Estate

Berman & Glenn(415) 495-3950

Robert J. Sheppard & Associates (415) 495-0900

CongratulationsAl Brotsky-

Fighter of the good fight

Stave Mayer & Evelyn Frank

^Ve ^aw Offices 0 f ___________________

Berman & Glennand

Robert J. Sheppard & Associatesare pleased to announce

tkeir association of law practices at

Tke Hearst Building, Suite 1100Tkird and Market StreetsSan Francisco, CA 94103

We will continue our empkasis in

fax (415) 495-6900

THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION

NLG Immigration Committee San Francisco

We applaud Allan Brotsky and the Guild for their unfailing commitment to justice.

Traun & McKee

Many thanks for years of inspiration and commitment

Susan B. Jordan Ann C. Moorman

Thank you, Allan-A great lawyer and dedicated friend to working women and men.

HLG Pro-Choice Committee

Colette Brooks Emily GrahamDiana Bullock Colleen O'NealLynda Burton Katie RiggsSusan Dovi Kathleen SchmittJenny Walter

The Staff of the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA salute Allan Brotsky for his exemplary leadership in the struggle for civil rights and civil liberties.

Congratulations!Keep up the good work.

Alameda County Public Defenders Assoc.

CONGRATULATIONS ON

THIS SPECIAL DAYDEBORAH ROSS

BARRY WINOGRAD

May You and the Guild and All of Us Keep Onfrom

214 Duboce AvenueSan Francisco, CA 94103

Flynn BradleyPeter Bresciani

Julie DrousGregor Guy-Smith

Stuart HanlonRandy Montesano

Martha NashMark RosenbushTony TamburelloRobert Waggener

David BellJoanna ChavezKaren Pantaleo

Neal Wach

To Allan Brotsky- Congratulations and best wishes for many more years of service to the labor community.

Winslow & Fassler

Allan: Your good counsel and skills are a credit to the profession.

Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin

WHY CAN'T WE JUST GIVE PEACE A CHANCE??

DELEGATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN

TASK FORCE

DALE BRODSKY JODY LEWITTER LYNDA BURTON DIANE ROSS JUDY KURTZ BRAD SELIGMAN

"Sonoma County Guild Lawyers Salute You"

L. STEPHEN TURERO RICHARD INGRAM PAMELA

HARRINGTON GLENN E. GUTSCHE

WE APPLAUD YOU FOR YOUR CONSTANT VIGILANCE ON THE FRONT LINES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.

CALIFORNIA ATTORNEYS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Dear Al Best Wishes

Elissa M. Matross Richard M. Doctoroff

SAN FRANCISCO

LAWYERS' «LJJSFC-

COMMITTEEFOR URBAN AFFAIRS T ?1F

WE JOIN WITH OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE GUILD IN

CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE , FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

301 MISSION ST.. SUITE 400. SAN FRANCISCO. CA 94105

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALLAN BROTSKY. YOU HAVE

LED BY EXAMPLE.

CINDY DUNCAN & LYNNE ARMSTRONG

(LOVE THE TROOPS-HATE THE WAR.)

PEACE LAW DOCKET: 1945-1990 Ann Fagan Ginger, Editor 500 Cases-U.S., foreign, World Court-on civil disobedience, treaties, conscientious objection, etc. $40.00 plus $5.00 p/h

HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND PERODICALS DIRECTORY

Vital Facts on over 700 human rights and peace organizations. Includes extensive Subject Index. $23.00 plus $5.00 p/h

Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Inst.Box 673 Berkeley CA 94701

GREETINGS TO THE NLGKEEP UP THE FIGHT FOR

SOCIAL JUSTICESFNLAF

San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation 49 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 627-0200

Allan, you have been a pleasure to work with.

The Guild Staff

Peace in the Persian Gulf; Keep the faith

Barbara Rhine Bill Brockett

Honoring your leadershipfor labor and civil rights

Law Office ofGeoffrey V. White

Congratulationsfrom

Don Jelinek&

Bill Samsel

Greetings to Allanfrom:

Lila Abdul-RahimBemal Heights Law Office

Ron BoyerMark CobyStan Dewey

Nancy DoctorNina Gagnon Fendel

Dan FeinbergAlex Green

Aubrey GrossmanImmigrant Legal Resource Center

C. Joseph KefferAJ KutchinsTom Meyer

Patti RobertsDiane Sidd-Champion

Doris Brin Walker

THE EMPLOYMENT LAW CENTER,

A PROJECT OF THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO APPLAUDS THE WORK OF THE NATIONAL LAYWERS GUILD

IN ITS FIGHT FOR HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS

JOAN M. GRAFF, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SUZANNE LUDLUM PATRICIA A. SHIU

BOBBIE CAMACHO CHRISTOPHER HO SUZANNE NEEDLES BETHANY SMITH

INOCENCIA DACUMOS ANA ROSA JAUREGUI WILLIAM C. MCNEILL, III SEBASTIAN STROUGHTER

JOANNE FRANKFURT SOCORRO JAUREGUI cati OKORIE JOHN M. TRUE

ANA GUZMAN PAULINE KIM CATHY RUCKELSHAUS BOBBIE J. WILSON

To Allanwith lovefrom the

Testimonial DinnerCommittee

Anne BrandonDale Brodsky

Gordon GainesSue Gershenson

Emily GrahamDavid Hettick

Vanessa HoltonLisa HonigJudy Kurtz

Ann LehmanJody LeWitterCindy OssiasLeslie RoseLeslie TickTerri Waller

David Weintraub

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONNational Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

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If applicable, of which minority or gay/lesbian bar association are you a member?

MEMBERSHIP DUES:□ Students $20□ Member of minority or gay/lesbian bar association (specified above) $20□ Lawyer or Legal Workers first year as NLG member $36

(subsequent dues based on annual income)□ Also enclosed is a $__________contribution to theAdvocacy Fund

(make out separate check to NLG Advocacy Fund)

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“WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOMCANNOT REST”

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONVENTION

Seattle Washington, July 31 - August 4, 1991Highlights include:

Inti Presentation: > Post-War Middle East

Plus more than 30 fantastic workshops, women’s luncheon, gay and lesbian dinner, and receptions honoring new members, Robert Meeropol (son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg), the American Baptist Church case and minority bar organizations.

Housing for the Convention is affordable: $71.50-89.55 per person for 3 nights.

To register for the convention, call the convention headquarters at (206) 622-5144.

Skills Seminars: > Immigration Act of 1990

Keynote:

> Practical and Progressive Trial Skills> Counseling People in the Military

> Senator Paul Wellstone

Banquet:

Plenary:

> Tribute to Congressperson George Crockett

> Disability Rights and Ableism in the Guild

Major Panels: > Environment and Indigenous PeopleWorkshops: > Perspectives on the Struggle Against White Supremacy

> “Free” Trade Agreements: The Impact Here and Abroad >* Peace and Militarism> Attacks on Lesbian and Gay Men through Art Censorship> Criminalization of Pregnancy: Drugs and Pregnancy> Crisis in the Soviet Union: Can Glasnost Survive?> Homelessness and the Right to Housing

> Plant Closings in the 90’s Reapportionment and the Voting Rights Act as

Political Tool> Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace

> The Politics of Rule 11 Sanctions >* Struggles in Communities of Color

Testimonial DinnerApril 20, 1991

Holiday Inn Golden GatewaySan Francisco, California

PROQRAM

6:00 Cocktails 7:30 Dinner 8:30 Program

Welcome:

Linda Fullerton President, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, National Lawyers Guild

Speakers:Rita Moreno

performer and recipient of the Oscar, the Emmy, the Grammy and the Tony awards will be Mistress of Ceremonies

Richard Bancroft retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge

Barry Commonerauthor and head of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems

Allan Brotsky our honoree

PledgeDance music by DJ Eric Grothkopp