Laborfest: Irish Labor Walk & Rincon Murals Tour : Indybay

A Walk - Irish Labor Helped Build San Francisco
With IBEW electrician Peter O’Driscoll and labor writer and UAW NWU member Larry Shoup.
This tour will focus on the history of San Francisco’s famed waterfront and the role of its Irish and Irish-American workers, leaders, and martyrs. It will also include the cases of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings who faced a labor frame-up in the Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco in July 1916 and the successful struggle for their release. The tour will also include the sculpture dedicated to the waterfront strikers of 1934 and other historic markers along the way. The tour will end inside Rincon Center discussing the historic murals dedicated to the labor movement in San Francisco.
See also:
http://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmooneycase.htm
http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/mooneyBillings.xml
http://www.dickmeister.com/id331.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Gentry
http://www.sfcityguides.org/public_guidelines.html?article=197&submitted=TRUE&srch_text=&submitted2=&topic=The%20Arts
http://kqed.info/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=23737

Laborfest: Irish Labor Walk & Rincon Murals Tour
Date	Sunday July 17
Time	12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Location Details
Marine Firemen’s Hall - 240 2nd St. San Francisco. Montgomery St BART/Muni Metro Station. Any bus on Market or Mission to 2d. Also buses 9, 10, 12
Event Type	Teach-In
Organizer/Author
A Walk - Irish Labor Helped Build San Francisco With IBEW electrician Peter O’Driscoll and labor writer and UAW NWU member Larry Shoup. This tour will focus on the history of San Francisco’s famed waterfront and the role of its Irish and Irish-American workers, leaders, and martyrs. It will also include the cases of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings who faced a labor frame-up in the Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco in July 1916 and the successful struggle for their release. The tour will also include the sculpture dedicated to the waterfront strikers of 1934 and other historic markers along the way. The tour will end inside Rincon Center discussing the historic murals dedicated to the labor movement in San Francisco. See also: http://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmooneycase.htm http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/mooneyBillings.xml http://www.dickmeister.com/id331.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Gentry http://www.sfcityguides.org/public_guidelines.html?article=197&submitted=TRUE&srch_text=&submitted2=&topic=The%20Arts http://kqed.info/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=23737 For more event information: http://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule... Added to the calendar on Friday Jun 17th, 2011 6:42 AM

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