Big Strike 90th Anniversary Presentations (1934)

Synopsis

On the 90th anniversary of “Bloody Thursday” (July 5, 1934), a series of presentations revisit the actual Big Strike on San Francisco’s waterfront that led to a General Strike in 1934, as well as tracing the pat of the Longshoremen’s Union (ILWU) in the subsequent decades. In 1960 the ILWU signed the Mechanization & Modernization Agreement, the first trade union deal of its kind. Following that they later conceded to the rise of “steady men” running container cranes, undercutting the power of their unique institution, the Hiring Hall. Further discussion on the long arc of deskilling and automation, the many episodes in which the ILWU rank and file blocked cargoes and refused to unload ships, and recent organizing on the Alcatraz ferry are all addressed too. Speakers: Chris Carlsson, Joel Schor, Gifford Hartman, and Jack Calvin. Editing problems!)

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Running time

104 minutes

Collection

Ephemeral Films

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• Unions
• Big Strike
• 1934
• General Strike
• automation
• redevelopment
• deskilling
• mechanization
• modernization
• progress

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