Bloody Thursday ILWU Videos Up on YouTube

by brightpathvideo

Thu, Nov 12, 2009 3:39PM

Melvin Mackay, ILWU President, Willie Adams, International Secretary-Treasurer ILWU, Adam Mendez, Jack Heyman, Cleofus Williams, Mike Villeggiante, Sabrina Williams and a host of other incredible ILWU speakers are featured in these high quality videos on the 75th Anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike of 1934.

The San Francisco general strike and West Coast maritime strike in 1934 was one of the most important and successful strikes in the history of the United States. This strike along with the Minneapolis Teamsters strike and Toledo strike were high points for the American labor movement. In the San Francisco general strike, Bloody Thursday was on July 5, 1934 when strikers Nick Bordoise and Howard Sperry were killed and 109 people were wounded as a result of the police attack on strikers and their supporters. Despite the calling of the National Guard and the violent attack on unions and workers in San Francisco this strike was won.

Listen to what the most militant union on the entire west coast has to say about the importance of organizing and labor unions.

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