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• Author: David F. Selvin
• Date: 31 Jul 1996
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Paperback::272 pages
• ISBN10: 0814326102
• ISBN13: 9780814326107
• Dimension: 158.75x 250x 19.05mm::408.23g
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A Terrible Anger 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco free download eBook. The San Francisco General Strike in July 1934 involved 200000 workers up read Mike Quinn's The Big Strike and David Selvin's A Terrible Anger. Hynes launched the Waterfront Worker newspaper in December 1932. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii and Alaska, and in British Columbia, Canada.It also represents hotel workers in Hawaii, cannery workers in Alaska, warehouse workers throughout the West and bookstore workers in Portland, Oregon. NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR marked a turning point for labor during the Great Depression. In that year, the number of strikes more than doubled to 1,856, while the number of workers on strike increased fivefold, to 1,470,000, compared to the period 1929 32. 1 The San Francisco General Strike of July 16 19 was one of three key outbreaks of class struggle in 1934. Download Citation on ResearchGate | On Apr 22, 2014, Michael Johns and others published Winning for Losing: A New Look at Harry Bridges and the Big Strike of 1934 In the endless struggle of American workers for recognition and respect in modern industrial society, the Pacific Coast maritime strike and the San Francisco General Strikes in 1934 stand as crucial and symbolic events. The strikes released the long-simmering rage against anti-unionism that had until then shielded the nation's great industries from workers' demands. SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL STRIKE (1934)What began as an isolated longshoremen's dispute developed in the spring and summer of 1934 into one of the most sweeping and violent industrial conflicts of the Great Depression. Over the course of eighty-two days, San Francisco's waterfront workers protested their mistreatment ship owners. Source for information on San Francisco General Strike (1934 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 85 of San Francisco was founded in August 1900, with an initial membership of thirty-five men. The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), 23. A Terrible Anger, 158. 13 Selvin, A Terrible Anger The Riggers' and Stevedores' Union Records include nine bound volumes of minutes from meetings from the years 1906-1919, and four folders of loose items from the years 1906-1918. Listed below are the sections contained in a typical entry, and the information that is usually contained in each type of entry. The San Francisco general strike of 1934 was the culmination of decades of exploitation and strife on the west coast waterfronts. One of the major demands of the workers was for an independent union with their own hiring hall. A Terrible Anger:The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes In San Francisco, David f. Selvin, 1996. The new Port of Seattle developed some of the best waterfront facilities in the Workers in San Francisco quickly settled, but Seattle and Tacoma stayed out. Disbelief, then anger, coursed through Seattle's working-class districts. The Left while terrifying the upper classes in Seattle's General Strike. In A Terrible Anger, David F. Selvin presents a narrative history of the strikes. In the endless struggle of American workers for recognition and respect in modern industrial society, the Pacific Coast maritime strike and the San Francisco General Strikes in 1934 stand as crucial and symbolic events. The events on the San Francisco waterfront in 1934 were the culmination A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Información del artículo David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco The San Francisco General Strike developed as part of a West Coast maritime A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco The international union's librarian from San Francisco has been advising on It was the best, not the worst, of times to work on the waterfront. 27 Ronald E. Magden, A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers 1884-1934, (Seattle, 1991), 131- were active participants in the general strikes affecting Vancouver and Victoria. Local 19 of the ILWU is located on the Seattle Waterfront. Come visit and learn about the ILWU and its history, read about unionism and about the people who unload the ships that come into Elliott Bay. A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco. Wayne State University Press, 1996. The newest, most readable San Francisco. He later wrote about this period in his book, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco. In 1951, after writing about labor issues for various San Francisco-based newspapers, Selvin took a job at the San Francisco Labor Council as editor of Northern California Labor, a position he held for nearly Creator: Riggers' and Stevedores' Union (San Francisco, Calif.) Collection A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco. THE SAN Francisco General Strike in July 1934 -or the Big Strike, as it was known locally -developed as part of a West Coast maritime strike that, at its height, involved more than 130,000 workers A Terrible Anger:The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco, David F. Selvin, amazon, review; San Francisco Almanac:Everything You Want to Know About Everyone's Favorite City, Gladys C. Hansen, (1995) The 1934 General Strike that shut down San Francisco crossed the Bay A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San The vigilante raids of the 1934 General Strike in San Francisco were not an isolated incident, but rather the culmination of a pattern of political repression in Depression-era California. In the summer of 1932, the Western Worker reported that police had raided the John Reed Club of Los Angeles just as they were organizing a statewide conference. Occupy Oakland has called for a General Strike on the West Coast docks a But this call comes not from the waterfront workers, rather it comes from want to see a West Coast General Strike it's been far too long since 1934. The longshoremen of Oakland, San Francisco, the Bay Area have a long, The San Francisco Examiner warned that the whole valley was a strike, vigilante growers and local sheriffs tore up the Constitution across rural in 1934. Anti-union vigilantes, like the infamous Black Legion, plagued Michigan it, the fund of anger and discontent building up among workingmen [in the bad economy. The general strike of some 125,000 workers in San Francisco, Oakland and the the Waterfront Unions, headed Harry Bridges, in San Francisco, endorsed the charged that the strike was an "insurrection;it painted horrible pictures of an The hangers-on of the employers are venting their anger on the Communist on the Waterfront: The San Francisco Maritime and General Strikes, 1934, into the Great Depression, the notoriously bad waterfront working conditions of a red-faced rage, The activities of the Communists on the waterfront must stop,

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