Depression Era: 1930s: “Bloody Thursday” & Other Labor Strikes
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Untitled. July 4, 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 two police officers and a striker in San Francisco, California in 1934 during the West Coast Longshoremen’s Strike. The police, one armed with a club, and one armed with a shotgun, charge the striker to the clear the way for the first trucks to move from San Francisco’s piers two months onto the strike.