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