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 during a violent, daylong battle over efforts to reopen the port using strikebreak- ers. The governor then sent in the National Guard and the port reopened, using strikebreakers. On July 9 Darcy helped organize a funeral march by thousands of silent strikers and strike supporters from the waterfront up Market Street, filling that great thoroughfare as they followed flatbed trucks carrying the caskets of the two men killed on July 5. The police reluctantly agreed to stay away from the route of the funeral procession but specified that there were to be no Communists involved. The ILA funeral arrangements committee instead placed Darcy in one of the lead cars next to Julia Bordoise, widow of Nicholas Bordoise. Bordoise was taken to Cypress Lawn Cemetery, just south of the city, where Darcy delivered a stirring funeral address.