75th Anniversary of Bloody Thursday
On July 5, 1934 two strikers were shot and killed by police men in San Fransisco. This past Monday people gathered to remember.
Several hundred union members and their supporters, many from around the world, marched in a reenacted funeral procession of the fallen men, Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise. As the procession passed the memorial at Mission and Steuart Streets, across the street from the site of the deaths, they took off their hats.
On July 9, 1934 a funeral was held for the two slain workers, Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise, their coffins borne on flat bed trucks, led a solemn procession of over forty thousand people up Market Street. This violence against striking workers was the breaking point in a long series waterfront clashes. The subsequent general strike, shut down San Francisco, and crippled the west coast for days.
Though we’ve come a long way we’ve still not come that far and there are those who would attempt to roll back historic gains.
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