This Emmy®-winning documentary tells the story of longshoremen fighting for their rights in the midst of the Great Depression. Faced with unsafe labor conditions and unfair treatment, they decide to form a union for protection. On July 5, 1934 police killed two longshoremen at a massive dockworker strike in San Francisco, a tragedy known as Bloody Thursday.
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