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DESCRIPTION:Labor Witch Hunts In California\nThe McCarthyite witch hunts in California 
 in the 1950s played an important role in shaping the labor movement in the 
 state. Trade unionists faced attack on their jobs and their rights to make 
 a living.  The primary purpose of the 1950s witchhunts was to destroy the 
 labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s which was organized in part by 
 communists, Trotskyists and socialists.  \nThe fight back included the 
 large protest and sit-in  at the HUAC hearings in San Francisco in 
 1960.\n\nOn May 13, 1960, the police used high pressure fire hoses on the 
 people INSIDE CITY HALL who were not allowed to enter the hearing room of 
 this Congressional committee at San Francisco City Hall, as was their 
 right.  They threw people down the marble stairs of the City Hall Rotunda, 
 causing blood to spew everywhere, breaking ribs of at least one 60-year old 
 African American woman.  The blood stains remained in the marble stairs for 
 decades.  The next day, a Saturday, we had a double picket line 4 blocks 
 around City Hall, so closely packed, that you could only move if the person 
 in front of you moved.  To us kids, this was a great choo-choo train.   One 
 line went clockwise; the other counter clockwise, both solidly packed for 
 the 4 blocks around City Hall.  When the chairperson of HUAC stepped onto 
 the balcony on the Polk Street side, we all gave him a mock Nazi salute and 
 said "Sieg Heil!"  WW2 had ended just 15 years earlier.  This was a labor 
 picketline, the kind of picketline we need to see again and again.  HUAC 
 never returned to San Francisco.\n\nJoin with participants in this struggle 
 and learn about their experiences and lessons for today.\nSpeakers:\nHoward 
 Keylor, Retired ILWU Local 10 member\nPhiz Mezey, SFSU professor fired for 
 not signing loyalty oath\nHarvey Schwartz, ILWU Historian\nDonna Carter, 
 member CNA and participant in SF HUAC hearing\nDon Watson, Retired member 
 ILWU Local 34\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm\nhttp://www.fsm-a.org/stacks/AP_files/APHUAC60.html\nhttps://diva.sfsu.edu/bundles/190424 
 (KPIX news of May 13, 1960 police & firehose terror) 
 \nhttp://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_House_Un-American_Activities_Committee_(HUAC)_Hearing_and_Riot_of_1960\nBill 
 Mandel, former KPFA programmer who invented listener call-ins, lecturing 
 HUAC on evil they are:\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/MANDEL\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/12/18681648.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Cal Labor Witchhunts & SF HUAC Hearing
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Next to baseball 
 stadium. Walk the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 
 801 Second Street or take public transportation: \nT or N train from 
 Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station; \n30 or 45 bus from Market 
 and Fourth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between 
 Fourth and Third, then walk one block to Second Street; \n47 bus which 
 travels on Van Ness ends at Cal Train Station at 4th and Townsend, then 
 walk on Townsend to Second Street; \n10 bus which runs from Powell on 
 Pacific to Battery, on Battery to Third and Townsend, so get off at Second 
 Street. Also runs from 25th and Potrero, on Wisconsin, Connecticut, 
 Townsend to Second Street.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/12/18681648.php
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