Dockworkers gather to remember ‘Bloody Thursday’ in San Pedro

Thousands of dockworkers gathered on Friday, July 5, to mark what’s known as “Bloody Thursday,” the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that loads and unloads cargo from the ships that call at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Friday began with a trip to the Roosevelt Memorial Park in Gardena, where San Pedro High School graduate Dickie Parker and Lomita resident John Knudsen are buried. Both union supporters died in 1934 during a strike when they joined a...