Longshore union members remember their own on ILWU’s 90th anniversary

The 70 or so dockworkers who have gone to their jobs over the years but never came home were memorialized during the longshore union’s annual tribute ceremony on Wednesday, May 15.

The annual San Pedro ceremony pays tribute to those who have died on the job at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as Dickie Parker and John Knudsen, who were killed during clashes with police in Wilmington during the 1934 West Coast strike — which established the International Longshore and Warehouse Union 90 years ago.