On July 9, beginning near the waterfront at the ILA hall on Steuart Street where services were held for Sperry, a huge funeral parade moved up Market Street. Conservative estimates placed the number of marchers at 25,000. No police were present; the marchers had asked to provide security for the event themselves, and the mayor, perhaps shocked at Bloody Thursday’s horrible outcome, agreed. The coffins were placed on trucks, with more trucks carrying flowers behind those. Harry Bridges rode in one open car with Tom Mooney’s mother, and Bordoise’s widow with Sam Darcy in another. Darcy was a Communist Party leader and an editor of Waterfront Worker. A union band played a slow Beethoven funeral march. The flow of people, silent except for the music and the sound of shuffling feet, moved forward beneath the hot summer sun, row upon solemn row, for two miles. Mike Quin reported that there was

not one smile in the endless blocks of marching men. Crowds on the sidewalk, for the most part, stood with heads erect and hats removed. Others watched the procession with fear and alarm. Here and there well-dressed businessmen from Montgomery Street stood amazed and impressed, but with their hats still on their heads. Sharp voices shot out of the line of march: “Take off your hat!” The tone of voice was extraordinary. The reaction was immediate. With quick, nervous gestures, the businessmen obeyed.