happy? - July 5 (SF longshoreman's strike)

Subject: happy? - July 5
From: Abby Sale
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 10:33 AM

In protest of severe & dangerous working conditions, a longshoreman's strike broke out in 1934 in San Francisco. It was violence-ridden; a number of workers were killed and many were injured.

          Four hundred strikers were brutally wounded;
          Four hundred workers and I left to die;
          Remember the day, sir, to all of your children,
          This bloody Thursday the fifth of July.
  
                  "The Ballad of Bloody Thursday," Anon., per John Greenway's book,
                   American Folksongs of Protest; also sung on Folkways, The Unfortunate Rake

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Subject: RE: happy? - July 5
From: Gedpipes
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 11:19 AM

...and the point is?

Subject: RE: happy? - July 5
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 11:28 AM

It happened on the 5th of July is the point!

Subject: RE: happy? - July 5
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 11:34 AM

Gedpipes - Abby's Happy?/Happy! postings are little trivia nuggets appropriate to the date.