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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family:
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Thursday, June 21st, in Cambridge [<a
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Bloody Thursday tells the story of how West Coast
dockworkers overcame huge obstacles to form a union.<br>
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Set in the midst of the Great Depression, the film
shows how longshoremen were fighting for their rights
at the same time that most of their families weren't
sure where their next meal would come from. The odds
were stacked against the longshoremen. <br>
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Mainstream newspaper publishers, fearful of
unionization efforts at their own papers, launched
brutal attacks against the dockworkers and drove
public sympathy against them. In addition, politicians
and the police openly used their resources to side
with the shipping companies against the striking
dockworkers. <br>
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On July 5, 1934 police killed two longshoremen at a
massive dockworker strike in San Francisco, a tragedy
known as <b>Bloody Thursday</b>. The tragic events of
Bloody Thursday turned public opinion against the
shipping companies and lead the citizens of San
Francisco and other west coast port towns to go on a
general strike in support of the dockworkers that lead
to the formation of the International Longshore and
Warehouse Union, now known worldwide as the ILWU. <br>
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<b>Bloody Thursday</b> tells the human stories of the
dockworkers who stood up against these odds and
changed the course of American labor history.<br>
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"<i>This strike is the best thing that ever happened
to San Francisco. It's costing us money, certainly.
We have lost millions on the waterfront in the last
few months. But it's a good investment, a marvelous
investment. It's solving the labor problem for years
to come. Mark my words. When this nonsense is out of
the way and the men have been driven back to their
jobs, we won't have to worry about them anymore.
They'll have learned their lesson.</i>" ~William H.
Crocker, a prominent San Francisco banker <br>
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<p><span><img alt=""
src="cid:part4.00060903.08000100@mynas.com"
align="left" height="240" hspace="10"
width="308">"<b><i>An Injury to One is an Injury
to All</i></b>" Rallying cry of the Wobblies
[IWW], and the name of a sculpture at the corner
of Mission & Steuart Streets, San Francisco,
where much of the violence took place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>"<i>We're not a democracy. It's a terrible
misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of
democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a
plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.</i>"
~Ramsey Clark , former U.S. Attorney General<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>"<i>To destroy this invisible government, to
dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt
business and corrupt politics is the first task of
the statesmanship of the day</i>." ~Theodore
Roosevelt's 1912 Platform of the Progressive Party<br>
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243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and
Windsor,<br>
entrance on Windsor<br>
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