BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18603271 SEQUENCE:18654425 CREATED:20090621T184400Z DESCRIPTION:6/24 Meeting On Protection Of Historic ILA Strike Central Headquarters & Establishment Of Labor Education/Media/Organizing Center\n\nURGENT CALL TO ACTION\n\nSTRATEGY MEETING ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 AT ILWU LOCAL 34 HALL\n\nWHERE: ILWU Local 34 Hall at Berry Street adjacent to AT&T Park (2nd and King)\n\nWHEN: 7:00 p .m to 9:00 p.m.\n\nWHAT: Preparing the fight to preserve the Waterfront, itsr labor legacy and to create a landmark Labor Educational, Media and Organizing Center at 113 Steuart Street that enhances the Waterfront and preserves its historic, environmental and architectural legacy.\n\nPRESERVE 113 STEUART STREET, SITE OF ILA HEADQUARTERS AND GROUND ZERO FOR THE 1934 GREAT MARITIME AND GENERAL STRIKE\n\n\nOn March 17 after five hours of public testimony in which the ILWU, Maritime Unions, Labor Historians, Waterfront Residents and Preservationists exposed the attempt by developers to demolish the nerve center of the 1934 General Strike on this its 75th anniversary, the Board of Supervisors voted overwhelmingly to reject the Planning Commission decision to allow Hines Real Estate to raze 113 Steuart Street and put up a high rise that violates planning criteria for the Waterfront.\n\n\n\n This is our opportunity to set the agenda: to organize for a project at 113 that preserves the Hall and fulfills the historic role and purpose of this labor landmark.\n\n\n\n Contribute to the discussion on how to transform 113 Steuart Street into a labor educational center that celebrates our living history and provides organizing and media center for labor and the community.\n\n\n\n JOIN the ILWU, Maritime and Bay Area Union activists, Labor Historians, Defenders of Planning that preserves our neighborhoods,\n\nlabor and community proponents for rebuilding the infrastructure of our city, restoring affordable housing, renewing our decaying schools .\n\n\n\n THE ILWU INTERNATIONAL AND THE LONGSHORE CAUCUS FOR THE ENTIRE WEST COAST AT THE ILWU CONVENTION IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON (JUNE 8TH TO JUNE 12TH 2009) PASSED UNANIMOUSLY THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION THAT CALLS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF 113 STEUART STREET AS A LANDMARKED LABOR HISTORY MUSEUM, LABOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTER.\n\n\n\n Join us on June 24th and be part of the struggle to make this happen!\n\n\nInternational Longshore and Warehouse Union\nThirty-fourth International Convention\nSeattle, Washington - June 8 – 12, 2009\nResolution #R-17 passed unanimously 113 STEUART STREET\nWHEREAS: 113 Steuart Street, the landmark building that was ground\nzero for the Great Maritime and General Strike of 1934 was\ntargeted for demolition by the multi-billion dollar\ndeveloper Hines Real Estate; and\nWHEREAS: from 1933 to 1935, the International Longshoremen’s\n Association (now the ILWU) Local 38-79 was located on\n the second floor of this very building and that this Local is\n the direct predecessor of ILWU Local 10; and\nWHEREAS: Hines Developers concealed the address of the building to\n prevent Maritime workers and organized labor from\n discovering their plan to demolish this historic site; and\nWHEREAS: Hines ordered a false “Historic Study” stating that neither\n the building nor anyone associated with it had made any\n significant contribution to the history or development of\n the city of San Francisco; and\nWHEREAS: It was that Bloody Thursday occurred at this very site on\n July 5, 1934, that the funeral of the Longshore martyrs,\n Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise took place in this Hall,\n that their bodies lay in state there for four days, that the\n massive funeral procession for labor’s martyrs across San\n Francisco began here; and\nWHEREAS: This great silent march electrified working people around\n the world and galvanized the broadest support for the\n General Strike; and\n2\nWHEREAS: Police and armed goons fired shotguns, tear gas, chemical\n gas bombs and explosives into the windows of the Hall\n killing and wounding untold numbers of working people; and\nWHEREAS: Harry Bridges and the leaders of the ILA emerged from this\n Hall, and the great struggles that were planned and\norganized there; and\nWHEREAS: Hines claimed falsely that the building no longer exists in\nany recognizable form when it is unchanged in all essentials\nand the Hall is today as it was in 1934; and\nWHEREAS: In 1934 the employers sought to make concessions to\nlongshore workers alone, and the newspaper headlines\nscreamed “Strike Over”; and\nWHEREAS: Harry Bridges refused to allow the employers to pit workers\nagainst each other; and\nWHEREAS: Harry Bridges and the ILA leadership declared that “an injury\nto one is an injury to all” and that the struggle was for good\njobs and decent wages and workers’ power for organized\nlabor; and\nWHEREAS: Working people everywhere today need good paying union\njobs; and\nWHEREAS: There is vast work to be done in creating decent and\naffordable housing for all working people, schools that are\nnot collapsing around the heads of the students and\nteachers, restoration and renewal of the infrastructure\nof San Francisco and of cities across the United States; and\nWHEREAS: What Harry Bridges and the Great Maritime and General\nStrike of 1934 taught us that working people need to stand\nunited as a mighty, mighty union; and\n3\nWHEREAS: The jobs we want will only come through the mobilization\nof all working people as in 1934; and\nWHEREAS: It was the very mobilization of Maritime and organized labor\nacross San Francisco and the Bay Area that exposed the lies\nof Hines and led to a huge victory for all working people on\nMarch 17 when the Board of Supervisors voted\noverwhelmingly to reject the Hines project and the lies\npresented about it by the developer and his supporters; and\nWHEREAS: Hines seeks to impose a ten story glass building 66% over\nthe height restrictions for the entire Waterfront District;\nand\nWHEREAS: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted\noverwhelmingly to reject the Planning Board’s “negative\ndetermination” and the demolition of 113 Steuart Street;\nand\nWHEREAS: Former seven-year ILWU International President Brian\nMcWilliams led the fight against the destruction of 113\nSteuart Street; and\nWHEREAS: Officers, executive board members and ranks of all major\nMaritime and other unions joined this fight, THEREFORE BE\n IT\nRESOLVED: That the ILWU Convention calls for 113 Steuart Street to\nbecome a landmarked labor history museum, labor education\nand training center and calls for good union jobs for working\npeople on projects that restore our cities and serve the\n needs of our people and not the greed of duplicitous\n developers.\nRPW/OPIEU29-AFL-CIO\n\nPhotos is of the memorial in front of the hall after the killing of Nick Bordoise and Howard Sperry on July 5, 1934\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/21/18603271.php SUMMARY:Meeting On Protection Of Historic ILA Strike Central Headquarters & Labor Center LOCATION:A meeting on June 24 at ILWU Local 34 will be held to report on the protection of the historic 1934 ILA strike headquarters. Plans are being made to turn the building into a Labor Education/Media/Organizing Center. URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/21/18603271.php DTSTART:20090625T020000Z DTEND:20090625T040000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR