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During the general strike, anti-Communist actions erupted across the Bay Area. On the first day of the general strike, Oakland police raided that city’s CP office and beat and arrested those inside; 50 men attacked the party office in Hayward, beat its occupants, and burned its furnishings; and 150…

On July 5—known on the waterfront ever after as “Bloody Thursday”—police killed two unionists, Howard Sperry, a longshoreman, and Nicholas Bordoise (George Counderakis), a party member and member of the cooks’ union who was volunteering in the union’s soup kitchen. A hundred more were injured durin…

Disputes within the local CP leadership escalated during the longshore and maritime strikes. Hynes was gone, but Harrison George remained to defend ideological orthodoxy against Darcy’s more flexible approach. George, under various pseudonyms, wrote long letters to Browder complaining about Darcy. …

Bridges, Schmidt, and another Albion Hall militant won election to the local’s executive committee. In March 1934, as ILA locals all up and down the Pacific Coast moved toward a coastwise strike, the San Francisco local elected a large strike committee that then elected Bridges as chair. On May 9 t…

In July, Darcy encouraged radicals among the longshoremen to join the newly chartered local of the International Longshoremen’s Association and to form a militant, but not exclusively CP, caucus there. The caucus included Harry Bridges, Henry Schmidt, and other militants who were neither CP members…