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Labor Bids for Power: Riot Guns in San Francisco
de Ford, Miriam Allen | July 18, 1934 issue

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At the southeast corner of Steuart and Mission streets, in San Francisco, California near the headquarters of the International Longshoremen's Association, men chalked a rough square. in it they lettered the words: Two men. killed here, murdered by police." Others came and heaped the square high with flowers; men knelt and prayed, or stood watching with hats in their hands. Then the police came, rubbed off the chalked words, and dumped the flowers into a patrol wagon. The attitude of the police is a curious one. Many of the regular waterfront police were once Longshoremen themselves. Then men were moved to the waterfront from all over the city, 750 of them, led in person by Police Chief William J. Quinn.

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CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; STEVEDORES -- Labor unions; QUINN, William J.; POLICE administration; POLICE -- Complaints against; SAN Francisco (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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