UNION BATTLE
CLASH ON SAN FRANCISCO WATERFRONT SEAMEN & LONGSHOREMEN. FIGHT ENDS WITH FORTY INJURED. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. Hundreds "of seamen were involved in a street fight between members of the International Longshoremen’s Union, of which Mr Harry Bridges is the head, and the Independent Sailors’ Union. The trouble started when members of Mr Bridges’s faction charged the pickets guarding the pier gates. The police broke up the battle after 40 had been injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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74UNION BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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