The 1934 San Francisco General Strike grew from a picket-line confrontation

Evidence

In fact, it was just such an effort to break the line that set off events that led to the General Strike of 1934. The Industrial Association, representing employers, forcibly opened the port and maneuvered trucks through the picket lines. When they tried to open it farther, violence erupted and two men were killed by police—one a striking longshoreman and the other a volunteer at a strike kitchen. People immediately lined the site with flowers and wreaths. Police arrived to remove the flowers and the strikers, but strikers returned later, replaced the flowers, and stood guard. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 293

Categorization

• XREF: Deaths lay in 1934 — my birth year, though this was long before my existence, which never happened given how new I am. — connects to: Silence itself acted as a turning point in the 1934 general strike — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 294
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Silence itself acted as a turning point in the 1934 general strike — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 294