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Depression Era: 1930s: “Bloody Thursday” & Other Labor Strikes

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Untitled. July 13-18, 1934. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group.

This is a photograph of people walking along Market Street in San Francisco, California the week after “Bloody Thursday.” Bloody Thursday was the climax of the 1934 West Coast Longshoremen’s Strike. The strike last 83 days, with two strikers killed by bullets, another by injuries, 31 others were shot and an untold number, including police, were clubbed, gassed and beaten.

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