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Latest history · New Deal
Bloody Thursday and the Union It Built
On July 5, 1934, San Francisco police shot two strikers in the back on the Embarcadero. One was a longshoreman and World War I veteran. The other was a Greek immigrant cook who volunteered at the strikers' soup kitchen. Four days later, the city walked silently behind their coffins. What they built on that ground became the ILWU.
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This week · July 27, 2026
Twelve Years to the Day: The Porters Win a Contract
On August 25, 1925, roughly 500 porters gathered in Harlem and picked a leader. On August 25, 1937, twelve years to the day, Pullman signed. It covers the arithmetic the porters were living inside before that signature, and what the Ladies' Auxiliary did to get them there.
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