War on the Docks:
Puget Sound’s Longshoremen in the 1934 Strike
Slideshow
created by Steven Beda, 2009
“War
on the Docks” research report by Rod Palmquist, 2008
• “Longshoremen on
Tacoma Dock.” Ron Magden
Collection;
• “Chinese
longshoreman…” Ron Magden
Collection;
• “Longshoremen
loading cotton…” Ron Magden
Collection;
• “Tacoma ILA
banner…” Ron Magden Collection;
• “Port Gamble LUP
Charter” courtesy Gene Vrana and the
ILWU Archives;
• “Longshoremen
loading timbers…” Ron Magden
Collection;
• “ILA members
burning blue books…” ILWU Local
19;
• The Waterfront Worker courtesy Gene
Vrana and the ILWU Archives;
• “ILA picketers
in San Francisco…” ILWU Local 19;
• “ILA members
remove the last scab…” Ron Magden
Collection;
• “President, Dean
Warn Strikebreakers,” UW Digital
Collections;
• “Northwest Joint
Strike Committee, 1934,” Ron Magden
Collection;
• Ronald Ginther
painting, Washington State Historical
Society Digital Collections;
• “Striker battles
policeman…” ILWU Local 19;
• “Bloody Thursday
sculpture…” Ron Magden Collection;
• Smith Cove
photos, Ron Magden Collection;
• ILA arbitration agreement, courtesy Gene Vrana
and the ILWU Archives;
• “ILWU members at
Seattle WTO…” ILWU Local 19;
• ILWU local 23
banner, Ron Magden Collection;
• “Longshoreman
moving timbers…” Ron Magden Collection.
Photo
Credits
Film
Credits
• Newsreel footage
of ‘34 longshore strike and ‘35 lumber workers strike from Union Burying Ground, courtesy Ron Magden
• Ron Magden
interview by Rod Palmquist
“War on the Docks:
Puget Sound’s Longshoremen in the 1934 Strike,” and The Waterfront Workers History Project are part of the Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History
Projects, made possible by the Harry
Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of
Washington