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San Francisco Labor Leader Profiled in Play.
By Debbie Cafazzo, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 28--During the Great Depression of the 1930s, working on the waterfront meant long hours, brutal conditions and meager pay.
Cargo that now moves efficiently in truck-sized containers manipulated by giant cranes was carried into and out of the holds of ships by human beings. Desperate workers were hired as casual day laborers -- sometimes after they had agreed to a kickback of part of their wages -- and had no on-the-job rights. A man named Harry Bridges helped change all that, with the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Bridges, ...
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