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Meeting On Protection Of Historic ILA Strike Central Headquarters & Labor Center | |
Date | Wednesday June 24 |
Time | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
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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. | |
Event Type | Meeting |
Organizer/Author | Committee To Defend Fired SF Hotel Workers |
6/24 Meeting On Protection Of Historic ILA Strike Central Headquarters & Establishment Of Labor Education/Media/Organizing Center
Added to the calendar on Sunday Jun 21st, 2009 11:44 AM
URGENT CALL TO ACTION STRATEGY MEETING ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 AT ILWU LOCAL 34 HALL WHERE: ILWU Local 34 Hall at Berry Street adjacent to AT&T Park (2nd and King) WHEN: 7:00 p .m to 9:00 p.m. WHAT: 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. PRESERVE 113 STEUART STREET, SITE OF ILA HEADQUARTERS AND GROUND ZERO FOR THE 1934 GREAT MARITIME AND GENERAL STRIKE On 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. 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. 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. JOIN the ILWU, Maritime and Bay Area Union activists, Labor Historians, Defenders of Planning that preserves our neighborhoods, labor and community proponents for rebuilding the infrastructure of our city, restoring affordable housing, renewing our decaying schools . 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. Join us on June 24th and be part of the struggle to make this happen! International Longshore and Warehouse Union Thirty-fourth International Convention Seattle, Washington - June 8 – 12, 2009 Resolution #R-17 passed unanimously 113 STEUART STREET WHEREAS: 113 Steuart Street, the landmark building that was ground zero for the Great Maritime and General Strike of 1934 was targeted for demolition by the multi-billion dollar developer Hines Real Estate; and WHEREAS: from 1933 to 1935, the International Longshoremen’s Association (now the ILWU) Local 38-79 was located on the second floor of this very building and that this Local is the direct predecessor of ILWU Local 10; and WHEREAS: Hines Developers concealed the address of the building to prevent Maritime workers and organized labor from discovering their plan to demolish this historic site; and WHEREAS: Hines ordered a false “Historic Study” stating that neither the building nor anyone associated with it had made any significant contribution to the history or development of the city of San Francisco; and WHEREAS: It was that Bloody Thursday occurred at this very site on July 5, 1934, that the funeral of the Longshore martyrs, Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise took place in this Hall, that their bodies lay in state there for four days, that the massive funeral procession for labor’s martyrs across San Francisco began here; and WHEREAS: This great silent march electrified working people around the world and galvanized the broadest support for the General Strike; and 2 WHEREAS: Police and armed goons fired shotguns, tear gas, chemical gas bombs and explosives into the windows of the Hall killing and wounding untold numbers of working people; and WHEREAS: Harry Bridges and the leaders of the ILA emerged from this Hall, and the great struggles that were planned and organized there; and WHEREAS: Hines claimed falsely that the building no longer exists in any recognizable form when it is unchanged in all essentials and the Hall is today as it was in 1934; and WHEREAS: In 1934 the employers sought to make concessions to longshore workers alone, and the newspaper headlines screamed “Strike Over”; and WHEREAS: Harry Bridges refused to allow the employers to pit workers against each other; and WHEREAS: Harry Bridges and the ILA leadership declared that “an injury to one is an injury to all” and that the struggle was for good jobs and decent wages and workers’ power for organized labor; and WHEREAS: Working people everywhere today need good paying union jobs; and WHEREAS: There is vast work to be done in creating decent and affordable housing for all working people, schools that are not collapsing around the heads of the students and teachers, restoration and renewal of the infrastructure of San Francisco and of cities across the United States; and WHEREAS: What Harry Bridges and the Great Maritime and General Strike of 1934 taught us that working people need to stand united as a mighty, mighty union; and 3 WHEREAS: The jobs we want will only come through the mobilization of all working people as in 1934; and WHEREAS: It was the very mobilization of Maritime and organized labor across San Francisco and the Bay Area that exposed the lies of Hines and led to a huge victory for all working people on March 17 when the Board of Supervisors voted overwhelmingly to reject the Hines project and the lies presented about it by the developer and his supporters; and WHEREAS: Hines seeks to impose a ten story glass building 66% over the height restrictions for the entire Waterfront District; and WHEREAS: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted overwhelmingly to reject the Planning Board’s “negative determination” and the demolition of 113 Steuart Street; and WHEREAS: Former seven-year ILWU International President Brian McWilliams led the fight against the destruction of 113 Steuart Street; and WHEREAS: Officers, executive board members and ranks of all major Maritime and other unions joined this fight, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the ILWU Convention calls for 113 Steuart Street to become a landmarked labor history museum, labor education and training center and calls for good union jobs for working people on projects that restore our cities and serve the needs of our people and not the greed of duplicitous developers. RPW/OPIEU29-AFL-CIO Photos is of the memorial in front of the hall after the killing of Nick Bordoise and Howard Sperry on July 5, 1934 |
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