Fatal Waterfront Clash in Tacoma
A labor dispute involving longshoremen and nonunion workers results in death and injury at the Milwaukee docks.
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Tacoma—Rangval Leinann, a strikebreaker, was shot and killed and S. James, a union longshoreman, sustained a probably fatal gunshot wound in a pitched battle Sunday when union men attacked an automobile carrying nonunion workers to the Milwaukee docks.
“a pitched battle Sunday when union men attacked an automobile carrying nonunion workers”
The waterfront battles of the early 20th century were defining moments in the Pacific Northwest labor movement. The struggle for worker protections and the use of strikebreakers were frequent sources of violent civil unrest that shaped current labor laws.
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