Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job
Stan Weir
It was noon, an hour and twenty minutes before the scheduled sailing time of the freighter SS Hanapepe, September 28,1943. I went to the crowded mess room and took the seat left vacant for me. My arrival meant that all eleven members of the Deck Gang were present. We did not order lunch. The on-ship delegates or representatives of both the Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers union (MFOW&W) and the Marine Cooks and Stewards union (MC&S) looked at me, the delegate of the Deck Gang and the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific (SUP),
The Oakland General Strike 1946, by Stan Weir
A short history of the general strike in Oakland, California, one of the biggest little-known strikes in the US. Initiated by the rank-and-file, it was called off by union leadership..........
FROM CLASS WAR TO COLD WAR, by John Newsinger
At the end of the Second World War the United States was gripped by the greatest strike wave in its history. Whereas the number of strike days a month had averaged less than 2 million in the first..........
The Bay Area General Strikes; '34 in SF & '46 in Oakland by Gifford Hartman Monday, Jan. 16, 2006
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1946 Oakland General strike. To commemorate, a presentation of the '46 Oakland strike will be presented--along with Chris Carl's son description and ..........
Dancing in the Rain, by Dick Meister
It was in the heart of downtown Oakland, California, at 7 a.m. on a wet, chilly December day in 1946.
Dozens of strikers, picket signs held high, were gathered outside the city's two major department stores. Suddenly, some 200 policemen, many in riot gear, swept down the street. They roughly pushed aside pickets and pedestrians alike as they cleared the street in front of the stores and the s...........