Hundreds of port union members and their families gathered on Monday, July 5, for the 87th anniversary of Bloody Thursday, commemorating the events that led to the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
This year’s gathering was held at Peck Park in San Pedro and included a daylong picnic with barbecues, live music and games. The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are closed on July 5 each year in recognition of the official ILWU holiday.
This year’s event came amid what appears to be the end of the coronavirus pandemic that kept the 2020 observance more subdued. Both ports also are still riding a long streak of record-breaking cargo months ports that have kept ILWU members working full shifts.
The union grew out of a workers’ strike on July 5, 1934, in San Francisco, then the West Coast’s major shipping port, During the strike, police fired into the crowd.
Leading up to that event, on May 15, 1934, the movement’s so-called “first blood” was shed when union men Dickie Parker and John Knudsen were killed during clashes with police in Wilmington.
Parker, 20, of San Pedro and Knudsen, 43, of Wilmington, are buried at Roosevelt Memorial Park in Gardena and are considered the first two casualties of the movement.
A 2010 documentary about the union’s founding was produced by Jack Baric of San Pedro and co-produced by KOCE-TV, Baric Entertainment and Redtail Media, in association with the Harry Bridges Institute.
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