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Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The University of California, Berkeley housed an establishment of the Third World Liberation Front and saw the second longest student strike in US history for reasons similar to that of the TWLF at San Francisco State College: to address the Eurocentric education and integrate into academia conversations about identity and oppression. [7]
San Francisco Anti-Chinese Riots occur. [18] 12 February 1877 (United States) The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 [18]-- U.S. railroad workers began strikes to protest wage cuts. It started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and then spread to many other states. 14 July 1877 (United States) A general strike halted the movement of U.S. railroads.
The San Francisco General Strike of 1934, along with the Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 led by the American Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 led by the Communist League of America, were catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1868 – San Francisco County Medical Society [8] and Women's Co-operative Printing Office established. 1869 California Theatre opens. San Francisco Yacht Club founded. [8] Grand hotel built. [1] Central Pacific Railroad line to Oakland completed. [2] 1870 Golden Gate Park [9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society [24] established. Population ...
United Railroads Strike of 1906 by IBEW1245 in San Francisco; 1906 GE sit-down strike (Schenectady, NY) 1907 1907 San Francisco streetcar strike; Boston garment worker strike; 1907 Skowhegan textile strike; 1908 Pensacola streetcar strike of 1908; 1909 New York shirtwaist strike of 1909; Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909; Georgia Railroad strike ...
A screenshot from the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus's most recent, and controversial, video, since removed from public view. (Photo: Must Read Alaska/YouTube)
Hall of Justice (San Francisco) Andrew Smith Hallidie; Harding Theater; George Hearst; Chet Helms; Francis J. Heney; Hetch Hetchy; Hetch Hetchy Railroad; William Sturgis Hinckley; Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco; History of the Movement from 1854 to 1890; Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District; Art Hoppe; Anson Parsons Hotaling ...