Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, Bloody Thursday 1934: The Strike that Shook San Francisco and Rocked the Pacific Coast. Still, longshoremen are not without resources of their own. They set a strike date. The ILWU rejoined the AFLCIO in 1988, and disaffiliated with it in 2013. On May 9, 1934 West Coast longshoremen struck, shutting down docks along 2000 miles of coastline, including all its major ports: Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, San Pedro, San Diego. The Trips Festival on January 2123, 1966 was the most attended and advertised of the early Acid Tests. [51], The general strike began on the 16th, involving some 150,000 workers. [47] The Teamsters had already been out for two days by that point. The strike would last 83 days. [29] They encouraged the strikers to take what they could get from the employers and threatened to use Teamsters as strikebreakers if the ILA did not return to work. A third man, Nick Bordoise a Greek by birth (originally named Nick Counderakis) who was an out of work member of the cook's union volunteering at the ILA strike kitchen was shot but managed to make his way around the corner onto Spear Street, where he was found several hours later. The Coast Committee chairs and administers the Longshore Division Caucus. The ILWU represents tens of thousands of workers who load and unload ships (traditionally called longshoremen) and others in the transportation industry, especially in warehouses and canneries. Harry Bridges; Paddy Morris; Jack Bjorklund; Joseph P. Ryan, Frank Merriam; Angelo Rossi; Julius Meier. It believed it could succeed in doing this, in alliance, when possible, with the conservative leaders of the AFL, then the CIO, including those in the San Francisco Labor Council, whom they never doubted. Annualmeetings of the Longshore Caucusmake decisions for the Coast Longshore Division byenumerating local officers votes. 3 Ways to Become a Longshoreman - wikiHow Resources - ILWU13.com Rather it was in conservative leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), above all, Joe Ryan of the ILA.
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