On this day, 5 July 1934 in San Francisco was Bloody Thursday, when police killed two longshoreman strikers and a bystander and hospitalised 115 people. Workers had been on strike against casual hiring methods on the docks. Within two weeks workers across the city launched a general strike against the wishes of the unions, and while the AFL disowned then effectively ended the strike, the longshoremen won the establishment of jointly operated hiring halls. This is Jeremy Brecher’s history of the strike: https://libcom.org/history/dock-workers-strike-san-francisco-general-strike-1934-jeremy-brecher https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1161008490750966/?type=3
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