Union Longshoremen Boycott Lodging House
A seaman is assaulted for refusing to leave a blacklisted boarding house in a labor dispute.
Paddy Glinn, the well-known longshoreman, was arrested yesterday morning by Officer George Sheehan for assault and battery upon a seaman named Peter Jensen. It seems that the union longshoremen have a boycott upon the Chicago lodging house, and Jensen, who is a union man, was ordered to leave there. Because he refused, he was assaulted.
“Because he refused, he was assaulted.”
Then · 1894132 years apartNow · 2026
This 1894 incident highlights the intense social and labor pressures placed on housing during the depression era. In a time when boarding houses were central to the life of the working class, a boycott was a potent and sometimes violent civic tool.
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