Two men died July 5 on the street near the ILA hall. One was Howard Sperry, a longshoreman, ILA member, and World War I veteran. The other was Nick Bordoise, a Marine Cooks’ union member and a Communist. He had been recovering from an operation when the strike broke out and left his bed to volunteer in the kitchen set up to prepare meals for the strikers. The morning after their deaths strikers made a sidewalk memorial on the spot where Sperry died. A square of flowers surrounded large words drawn in chalk. On two sides was written “Police murder.” In the center it read “Two ILA men killed” and, below that, “shot in the back.”