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Nonilex

#Diversions are a key issue for the #ILA, w/the #union's president, #HaroldDaggett, threatening that the #longshoremen would travel to ports where diverted vessels attempt to unload their freight. Daggett has mentioned the #ILWU allowing ILA members to go to the port in the 1977 #strike to stop the unloading of a diverted vessel. Daggett was one of those longshoremen at that time who traveled to the #WestCoast.

#economy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 1, 1938: Police opened fire on 200 unarmed trade unionists protesting the unloading of a ship in Hilo Harbor, on the Big Island of Hawaii, in what became known as "the Hilo Massacre." The protest was in support of striking waterfront workers. 50 workers were injured. Police also used tear gas and bayonets. The workers came from numerous ethnic backgrounds, including Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Luso (Portuguese) and Filipino. They belonged to several unions, including the ILWU. They were fighting for equal pay to dockers on the U.S. west coast and for a closed, union shop. Harry Kamoku (depicted in the original woodblock poster shown in this post) was the primary organizer and leader of the strike, as well as a member of Hawaii’s first union to be legally recognized. He was a Chinese-Hawaiian, a longshoreman, born in Hilo.

Woodblock poster (which I purchased in Hilo, in 2005), depicting local labor organizer, Harry Kamoku. Other images in the poster include a close-up of a cop pointing a gun at viewers, and scenes from the strike. At the bottom it reads, An Injury to One is an Injury to All.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#union
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 30, 1990: Harry Bridges died at age 88. He helped found the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) and led the union for 40 years. Bridges was born in Australia in 1901 and moved to the U.S. in 1920. He joined the IWW in 1921 and participated in an unsuccessful nationwide seamen’s strike. In 1922, he moved to San Francisco, to become a longshoreman. His militancy won him considerable support and he was soon elected a leader of the new longshoremen’s union. He helped lead the 1935 San Francisco General Strike. This was one of the last General Strikes to occur in the U.S. because the Taft-Hartley Act banned them in 1947 (in the wake of the 1945-1946 Strike Wave, with over 4.3 million U.S. workers going on strike, including General Strikes in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Stamford, Connecticut; Rochester, New York; and Oakland, California). One of Bridge’s most famous quotes was, “The most important word in the language of the working class is solidarity.

History of San Francisco mural, "The Waterfront," by Anton Refregier at Rincon Annex Post Office located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California. The mural was commissioned as part of the WPA. The painter had intended to depict Harry Bridges as the central figure, but because of public attacks by Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) he had to make him anonymous. Refregier wrote: "The stories in the Hearst press brought out gangs of hoodlums who were constantly under my scaffolding and I no longer worked after the sun set." The Public Building Administration ordered that panel covered drawing protests from the CIO longshoremen and artists' organisations Photo: Public Domain
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Peter Riley

#ILWU #SanFrancisco Bay Local 10 was “one of a number of #unions expelled from the #CIO and the only #union that survived fully intact.”
In the 1930s, four members of the local were killed fighting fascism in Spain. The #union refused to load cargo for fascist #Italy in 1935 or imperialist #Japan between 1938 and 1940. In 1978, the union’s members refused to load bomb parts headed to Augusto Pinochet’s #Chile.

jacobin.com/2024/03/internatio

jacobin.comInternational Dockworker Solidarity, FictionalizedLabor has the power to halt the war machine. Dockworkers have often exercised this power, and a new novel by Herb Mills tells a tale, rooted in his own experiences, of stevedores refusing to load US weapons for the brutal El Salvador dictatorship in 1980.
#antimilitarism#solidarity
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MikeDunnAuthor

Mural on sculpture at corner of Spear and Mission, San Francisco's Rincon Hill district (now known as South Beach) and site of the 1934 General Strike, in which 9 workers were killed by the police.

Mural contains the IWW slogan an Injury to One is An Injury to All. ILWU leader Harry Bridges had been a member of the IWW, which had tried to organize the Pacific ports in the 1920s, including the San Pedro Maritime Strike, 1923.

There is an accompanying brass plaque, which describes the strike, and pays homage to Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise, killed on Bloody Thursday, July 5, 1934.

The artists of the mural were: Miranda Bergman, Tem Drescher, Nicole Emmanuel, Lari Kiholani, James Morgan, Raymond M Patlan, Eduardo Pineda, James Prigoff, O'Brian Theile, & Horace Washington.

Mural in San Francisco commemorating the 1934 General Strike. shows workers, peace dove. Reads "An injury to one is an injury to all."
#WorkingClass#laborhistory#GeneralStrike
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AccordionBruce

@jtphillipsmnr @blackmastodon
The #ILWU Longshore workers are by far the most powerful union in the country considering the size of their membership

Because they control the ports on the west coast, and can shut down that section of global trade in an instant

IT workers control choke-points and strategic nodes like that all over — just as you say

In the Seattle #GeneralStrike of 1919, hospital workers stayed on the job
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en.m.wikipedia.orgSeattle General Strike - Wikipedia
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