Word: embarcadero
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...deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted all its trans-Pacific passenger traffic to Los Angeles and the Grace Line had eliminated sailings north to Seattle. The steel doors of the 38 docks on San Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero (see map) had not opened for eight weeks to let a bale of silk, a bag of sugar or anything of the $50,000,000 worth of goods they held pass into commerce. When the first door opened last week, out surged something akin...
...open the port. The spot chosen for the attempt was Norton, Lilly's Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads had been moved safely to a nearby warehouse. Strikers...
...threw themselves fiercely into battle. At times the fighting extended as far north as Pacific Street, the old "Barbary Coast," but police, in pig-snouted gas masks, rounded up the rioters and drove them South of the Slot. Commuters to Oakland bound for the Ferry House and crossing the Embarcadero on the viaduct from Market Street saw the battle from above, felt the sting of tear gas, the impact of missiles...
...view of the fact that we are equipped with rifles, bayonets, automatic rifles and machine-guns, all high-powered weapons, the Embarcadero will not be a safe place for persons whose reasons for being there are not sufficient to run the risk of serious injury...
...Archbishop Hanna and the board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...