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 photograph shows the San Francisco Embarcadero on July 4, 1934 as two mounted police officers escort a rioter to jail. The rioter, a longshoreman, attempted to prevent trucks full of cargo to leave the Embarcadero. The longshoremen were striking for better wages, shorter work hours, and for the right to unionize.