| Garcia & Maggini Warehouse |
128 King St. |
San Francisco |
CA |
On July 3, 1934, employers tried to break the strike that had closed down Pacific coast shipping since May. Trucks began to move goods from the warehouse but striking waterfront workers resisted during a five-hour battle, a prelude to "Bloody Thursday." |
| Garment Worker Statue |
7th Ave. & 39th St.; Manhattan |
New York |
NY |
A garment worker sits at his sewing machine portraying generations of immigrant needle-trades workers. |
| "Generations" Sculpture |
Sheet Metal Workers Pension Fund Headquarters; Edward Carlough Plaza; 601 N. Fairfax St. |
Alexandria |
VA |
The sculpture represents three generations of sheet metal workers. The senior generation hands the tools of the trade onto the apprentice, as the journeyman looks on. One figure is missing part of the thumb, reflecting the hazards of work. |
| Gompers, Samuel, House |
2122 1st St. NW |
Washington |
DC |
Samuel Gompers served as president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) from 1886 until 1924. He lived in this house from 1902 until 1917. |
| Gompers, Samuel, Memorial (DC) |
park at 11th St. & Massachusetts Ave. NW |
Washington |
DC |
Gompers was a Jewish immigrant cigar maker from England who founded the AFL in 1881 and was re-elected as its president 42 times until his death in 1924. |
| Gompers, Samuel, Memorial (TX) |
Riverwalk (across from Convention Center) |
San Antonio |
TX |
Samuel Gompers was the founding president of the American Federation of Labor and the architect of the International Labor Organization. He died in San Antonio in 1924, while attending an international trade union gathering. |
