Honoring Harry Bridges
It is with great pride that I will march with the longshoremen in San Pedro on Saturday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Harry Bridges (July 21). It will remind me of marching down Broadway (Pico Boulevard to First Street) in the ‘30s, holding my father’s hand as his union local, the longshoremen and all the other Southern California unions celebrated Labor Day.
Bridges’ accomplishments in the ‘30s set the stage for what Cesar Chavez carried on from the ‘50s on. Let us honor Bridges for what he was--one of California’s and America’s great labor leaders of the past century.
Sam Caminker
Los Angeles
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