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DESCRIPTION:The 1934 San Francisco General Strike: An Educational Conference with 
 Video: Harry Bridges, A Man And His Union\nSpeakers including: Harvey 
 Schwartz, Ralph Schoenman, Brad Weidemier, Akio Masuda, Cleophus Williams, 
 Gifford Hartman, Clarence Thomas and Jack Heyman.\n\nThe 1934 San Francico 
 General Strike and West Coast Maritime Strike was a pivotal point for the 
 working people in San Francisco and the West. This strike which was 
 organized from the bottom up showed that the rank and file have the power 
 to successfully form a union despite the resistance of the bosses, the 
 media, the politicians and the government. The lessons of workers today for 
 this strike are vital when millions of workers are unorganized and facing 
 concession after concession with the economic collapse of our economy. 
 \n\nAlso in 1934 were the general strikes of Minneapolis and Toledo.  These 
 3 general strikes made possible the passage of the 1935 National Labor 
 Relations or Wagner Act making it legal to organize and join labor unions; 
 the 1935 Social Security Act and unemployment insurance.  It will take 
 ANOTHER GENERAL STRIKE NOW to win socialized medicine, the kind of 
 universal healthcare that exists in the rest of the industrialized world, 
 including Germany where it has existed for 126 years, along with old age 
 pensions and unemployment insurance.\n\nHosted by ILWU Local 34 & Local 10, 
 Transport Workers Solidarity Committee\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.sfgeneralstrike.org\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/12/18601470.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: 75th Anniversary of The 1934 San Francisco General Strike
LOCATION:Marine Firemen’s Hall, 240 2nd St., San Francisco near Howard Street, 
 Montgomery Street BART station\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/12/18601470.php
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