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In the aftermath of the 1901 teamsters' and waterfront strike, Teamsters, Local 85, had been nailed down by a contract clause that read: "The Brotherhood of Teamsters and Auto Truckmen are not in favor of sympathy strikes and will do everything they can to avoid them." That clause was much in the m…

F. J. McGowen, general manager of the Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company at San Pedro, recalled that some of the men housed in a company camp "had not eaten for weeks; some of them had not worked for months and years. When they first came to us they were in pretty bad shape. After we got a couple …

The strikebreakers, Plant said after the strike, "were nearly all Americans, nearly all citizens of San Francisco, nearly all family men, and in the large majority of cases men who had been on relief, willing to work and satisfied with the conditions under which they were employed." 6 On the other …

In Portland, two crews of gang bosses stood by for emergencies. Otherwise, longshoremen -- estimated at from 1,100 to 1,500 -- stayed off the docks. A newspaper told the men that, unless they reported for work by 8:00 A.M. the following morning, they would be fired. The employers counted heavily on…

The convention's final action ordered a strike vote unless the employers complied with the union demands by March 7-the next day. If the union demands were not met by March 22nd, a strike would be called in all Pacific Coast ports at 8:00 A.M., March 23. In its final hours, too, the convention inst…