Police clubs against union pickets on the waterfront

1934

Archival footage of San Francisco police fighting union pickets as employers tried to move cargo off the docks. The confrontations ran through early July 1934 and culminated on the fifth, when police and vigilantes fired on strikers and killed longshoreman Howard Sperry and cook Nick Bordoise. CriticalPast presents the reel unedited and without a broadcast narration track.