Abstract
From 1934 onward Harry Bridges personiÞed militant, left-wing unionism on the Pacific Coast. Born Alfred Renton Bridges in 1901 in Australia, he began calling himself Harry when he went to sea at age sixteen. By 1922 he was working on the San Francisco docks as a longshoreman. In 1933 the International LongshoremenOs Association (ILA) chartered Local 38Ð79 in San Francisco, and Bridges emerged as leader of its left-wing caucus. In May 1934 ILA members went on strike from Bellingham, Washington, to San Diego, California, in an effort to secure union recognition, a union hiring hall, and improvements in wages and hours. Bridges became a leadingNand uncompromisingNÞgure in the strike. After the strike, he won the presidency of Local 38-79 and then of the ILAOs Pacific Coast
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