Harry Bridges

They'll suspect we're angling to pass for Connecticut or Nantucket, not the City of Harvey Milk and Harry Bridges.

Nato Green: San Francisco Mayor's Race 2011, AKA Jonestown 2011 Nato Green 2011

A waterfront that no longer bustles with shipping, a sad reminder of all the things that Harry Bridges fought for and now are long gone.

Christopher Caen: Friday Footsteps: San Francisco Nostalgia Christopher Caen 2012

Edgar Hoover, Davis felt safe in acknowledging that his friend Paul Robeson “enthusiastically supported the idea” and that union honcho Harry Bridges greased the skids for him in Hawaii.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Edgar Hoover, Davis felt safe in acknowledging that his friend Paul Robeson “enthusiastically supported the idea” and that union honcho Harry Bridges greased the skids for him in Hawaii.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

She had refused to give orders to deport Harry Bridges, the Australian longshoreman who had led a successful general strike in San Francisco in 1934.

On being called a bigot and/or racist 2010

On the one hand, this was true—his true antipathy was never toward the rank and file but toward union leaders such as Walter Reuther and Harry Bridges, whom he regarded as tinpot dictators.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

Harry Bridges has been quoted as saying: "There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life."

OpEdNews - Diary: Go Fremantle **ckers! 2009

But the Longshore union, which was strongly antiwar, supported Alioto--I think because he promised Harry Bridges a seat on the Port Commission, though that could just be my chronic cynicism.

The Last Waltz Salon for Joe Lynn sfmike 2009

Harry Bridges has been quoted as saying: "There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life."

Dharma Bumming Around 2009

As a young lawyer in San Francisco, Crum amassed friends ranging from press tycoon William Randolph Hearst to Harry Bridges, the union activist long reviled as a communist.

Defender Of The Hollywood 10 2008