KTVU Second Look July 7, 2014
Areas labor movement. As San Francisco marks the 80th anniversary of the 1934 general strike. The strike began when longshoremen walked off the job protesting brutal working conditions. Ktvus George Watson first brought us this story in 2000. Its the worse industrial disturbance that San Francisco has seen in many years. San francisco was one of the busiest sea ports in the world when 12,000 longshoremen went out on strike. They shut down the ports and peers of the entire west coast. It was may nine, 1934. Completely demoralized through inability of gas stations to replenish their supplies. Ne...
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