Talk:1934 West Coast waterfront strike

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Great article. Glad to see the folks at work here. --71.36.251.182 22:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Could be vastly expanded
This could be greatly expanded. I don't really have the expertise to take it on, but just from what I know of Seattle history, there is a lot that could be added (e.g. Seattle strike leader Shelvy Daffron was ambushed and killed on June 30, 1934). One consequence of the strike for Seattle was a major loss of Asian trade, which shifted to Los Angeles.

I don't want to blow the Seattle part of the story out of proportion, and I'm not sure how large the Seattle events were relative to those in the Bay Area. I do know that the belong as a section in a larger article. - Jmabel | Talk 06:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Good point, Jmabel. The same could apparently be said about Portland, where the strike ended in lethal violence. See . Some more research and expansion would be good. -Pete (talk) 23:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

West Coast Waterfront Strike and San Francisco General Strike are not the same thing
Someone created a re-direct from San Francisco General Strike to this page, but the topics would be better served as two separate pages. The West Coast Strike hit cities up and down the west coast, whereas the General Strike took on its own character in San Francisco, involving the general population. Cleshne (talk) 05:34, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Footage Used Deceptively in WW2 Nazi Propaganda
In the May, 17th, 1944 release of the German newsreel Die Deutsche Wochenschau, footage from this strike is claimed to be current. The narrator says "Strikes and lockouts in America and England typify again and again the real social conditions of our enemy." Might this be worth including in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RugTimXII (talk • contribs) 00:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * User:RugTimXII: From the quote you give it doesn't really sound like they're implying it to be current, just saying that it happens often. Do you have a source, though? Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 08:15, 30 March 2021 (UTC)


 * User:DesertPipeline: The source is at []. This one doesn't have subtitles, but at 4:27 the narrator makes the above statement, as well as "This is how it looks in the plutocracies." --RugTimXII

Additional possibly useful source
Carl Winslow, [https://www.thestand.org/wp-content/uploads/2024-Cal-Winslow-1934-Seattle.pdf Seattle 1934 The Strike of the Longshoremen], The Stand, 2024. The Stand is the online daily newsletter of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 17:59, 26 June 2024 (UTC)