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Contrasting views of San Francisco circa 1906 and 1934
Scenes from 1934 movie about Westward Expansion of the United States at end of the 19th Century. View of San Francisco harbor with a steamer passing in the background. Inserted scenes from 1906 film of Market Street taken from a cable car headed toward the Oakland Ferry. It shows hectic uncontrolled vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the street. Change of scene shows current (1934) views of San Francisco from a vantage point above the city.
The General Strike in San Francisco, during July 1934
Brief view of people crowded at Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, near the Owl Drug store, during a general labor strike. The San Francisco City Hall is seen across the street. Crowds mill about in various areas of the city (This strike, in July 1934, grew out of a Seamen and Longshoreman strike and was soon joined by other labor organizations.) Vehicular traffic making its way with difficulty through the crowds on the street. Vigilantes with clubs keeping people away from side street where business owners cars are parked. Silhouette of California National Guard troops manning machine guns. Rioters gather on a road. Police or vigilante officers with rifles and gas canisters disperse crowd. Men run on the streets as policemen scatter the crowd. A sign for "H.A. Hopkins & Co" in background. Lamp lights and buildings on the street.
1934 West Coast waterfront strike and other labor strikes; scenes of violence between strikers and police
Labor riots and strikes on streets in San Francisco, California. Striking workers of Maritime Union on street. Strikebreakers and strikers start a riot in the street. Several men are hit by strike breakers, with clubs. and are beaten. A man sits with blood streaming down his face. A man sits near him. Men grab a man and push him along the street. Policemen fire tear gas into crowd. Police officers mounted on horseback push back the huge crowd. Soldiers with bayoneted rifles push back strikers. Man with cut on his head receives medical attention from another man. Police push back protestors. Strikers of the International Seamen's Union (I.S.U.) on picket line. Signs for Ship's masters, mates, and Pilots on strike. Striking workers use clubs and smash windows of a warehouse during violent protest. Final scenes show unrelated labor strife, elsewhere, with United States soldiers standing guard near railroad tracks at entrance to a coal mine.
Police battle the Union pickets to quell rioting Longshoremen at San Francisco, California.
Police battle the Union pickets at the port of San Francisco, California. Police officers on horses, clash with demonstrators during labor stirke. Officers fire guns and tear gas to quell rioting Longshoremen. People gather around a wounded man. Riot scene with vehicles toppled, on the streets of strike-paralyzed port.
Longshoremen (dock workers) meet in San Francisco, California.
Transpacific ships lie idle at a port in San Fransisco, California. Longshoremen (dock workers) meet to force recognition of their union demands.
Longshoremen in San Francisco, California, and farm workers in Bridgeton, New Jersey, demonstrate strikes.
Aerial view of waterfront dock areas at San Francisco Harbor. Longshoremen dock workers in San Francisco demonstrate during a labor dispute and strike for better wages. Police fire tear gas guns at the demonstrators to restore law and order. Farm workers on strike in Bridgeton, New Jersey clash with authorities as they protest and demonstrate for better work conditions. Protestors throwing rocks and men spraying water from hoses. Police grab an African American woman near a farm truck. The police make many arrests to restore law and order.