In 1935, bruised and battered by San Francisco's general strike, seamen, longshoremen and other maritime trades banded together loosely in a Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Their slogan: "An injury to one is an injury to all." Within a year they counted 8,000 members of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 17,000 members of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Association, 17,000 members of nine smaller unions.
One thing which made M. F. P. possible was that Harry Bridges of the powerful Longshoremen's Union backed big, tough Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors'...
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