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The Golden Spike: Chinese and Irish Labor versus The Big Four

Chinese Historical Society of America 965 Clay St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | May 10, 2019 will be the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, a momentous accomplishment which has excluded recognition of the contribution of Chinese railroad workers to the wealth of The Big Four and the building of the American Empire, which connected East Coast to West across the Pacific to the China Trade.

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Film: Killing Floor (114 min) 1984

ILWU Local 34 Hall 801 2nd St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Free | Producer-Writerr: Elsa Rassbach | Director: Bill Duke (1985 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award) | One hundred years ago, a critical struggle was taking place in the slaughterhouses in Chicago to organize a union. This powerful dramatic film focuses on the Polish and African American workers and their conditions as they fight to overcome racism and class hate and greed, in order to build a union of black and white workers.

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