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Laborfest: Walk: SF General Strike of 1934
Date:
Saturday, July 08, 2017
Time:
4:00 PM
-
6:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Laborfest
Location Details:
Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza Tower - Embarcadero at Market, San Francisco, in front of the Ferry Building, at the south side tower. Embarcadero BART.
Walk - San Francisco General Strike of 1934
Join the walk with Gifford Hartman and others.
Eighty-three years ago at this location, a great battle took place by workers and residents of San Francisco against the police and National Guard.
We will look at the causes of the 1934 General Strike and why it was successful. How was the strike organized and why are the issues from that strike still relevant to working people today? We will also view some of the key historical sites in this important US labor struggle.
Laborfest began in 1994 to commemorate the 1934 general strike that made San Francisco a union town, and together with the 1934 General Strikes in Minneapolis and Toledo, made possible in 1935, the passage of the Social Security and Unemployment Insurance Act, and the legalizing of the right to organize labor unions with the Wagner Act. See
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1p1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act (Wagner Act)
See also: http://www.laborfest.net/2017/2017schedule.htm
http://www.laborfest.net/welcome.htm and http://www.laborfest.net/aboutLF.htm
Join the walk with Gifford Hartman and others.
Eighty-three years ago at this location, a great battle took place by workers and residents of San Francisco against the police and National Guard.
We will look at the causes of the 1934 General Strike and why it was successful. How was the strike organized and why are the issues from that strike still relevant to working people today? We will also view some of the key historical sites in this important US labor struggle.
Laborfest began in 1994 to commemorate the 1934 general strike that made San Francisco a union town, and together with the 1934 General Strikes in Minneapolis and Toledo, made possible in 1935, the passage of the Social Security and Unemployment Insurance Act, and the legalizing of the right to organize labor unions with the Wagner Act. See
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1p1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act (Wagner Act)
See also: http://www.laborfest.net/2017/2017schedule.htm
http://www.laborfest.net/welcome.htm and http://www.laborfest.net/aboutLF.htm
For more information:
http://www.laborfest.net/2017/2017schedule...
Added to the calendar on Tue, Jun 13, 2017 5:59AM
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