Walter Macarthur

American labor leader

Walter Macarthur (March 9, 1862 – December 8, 1944) was a Scottish-American labor leader and writer who served nearly twenty years as a United States Shipping Commissioner.^[1] He was one of the founders of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, and was the longtime editor of its official organ, the Coast Seamen's Journal.^[2] He was involved with the San Francisco Union Labor Party before disavowing it over its corruption,^[3] and was a co-founder of the Asiatic Exclusion League.^[4] In 1910 he ran for Congress against Julius Kahn.

Works

• Coast Seamen's Journal

References

1. "Ex U.S. Port Executive Dies". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco. 9 December 1944. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
2. "Two fine books of sea and its life by a Californian". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento. 19 September 1925. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
3. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Ruef's San Francisco. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 264.
4. Buell, Raymond Leslie. [1922] 1992. "The Development of the Anti-Japanese Agitation in the United States." Political Science Quarterly 37(4):605-38. doi:10.2307/2142459. JSTOR 2142459.