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

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Or view larger version. Untitled. July 10, 1939. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group.

This photograph shows Harry Bridges, his daughter, Jacqueline Betty Bridges, and Mr. Bridges’s attorney, Miss Carol King as they left by boat from San Francisco on July 10, 1939 for Angel Island for the beginning of Bridges’s deportation hearing. Harry Bridges was the west coast CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) leader, and was charged with being a member of the Communist Party.

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