[news] "The Big Strike" of 1934

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

It's the **73rd anniversary** of what's known in labor lore as **"The Big Strike"** -- a remarkable event that brought open warfare to San Francisco's waterfront, led to one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history and played a key role in spreading unionization nationwide...It began in May of the dark Depression year of **1934** when longshoremen finally rebelled against their wretched working conditions in **San Francisco**, then one of the world's busiest ports, and in the West Coast's other port cities.

  


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