Photograph courtesy of the ILWU Library, San Francisco. Wayne Morse at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Photograph courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Dock workers compete for jobs.
Photograph courtesy of the ILWU Library, San Francisco. In their strike of '34, San Francisco dock workers were violently confronted by police and hired thugs. Photograph courtesy of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York. After the ILWU ignored one of his orders, Morse would not return to his work until Frances Perkins pled with him to do so. Wayne Morse Papers, Coll.