1934 San Francisco General Strike – Presentation by Gifford Hartman (Zoom event)

By Gifford Hartman
Eighty-six years ago a great battle took place between striking workers and the police and National Guard along the waterfront besides the piers of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. 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? And how did the union invite black workers into its ranks to prevent racist exclusion from breaking their strike? This Zoom presentation will show photos and video clips from the strike, with a chronology of how a two month long waterfront strike along the entire West Coast exploded into a 4-day general strike that shut down all commerce in San Francisco.