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West Coast longshoremen launch coastwide strike

On May 9, 1934, longshore workers along the U.S. West Coast walked off the job in a coordinated strike that shut down major Pacific ports from San Diego to Seattle.

West Coast longshoremen launch coastwide strike

The strike marked a turning point in American labor history—escalating militant organizing on the waterfront, precipitating wider labor confrontations later that summer, and helping to shape subsequent New Deal labor policy and the strength of dockworkers' unions.

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