(6587) Strikes, Violence, Dock Workers, Seattle, Washington, 1934

Mounted police drive dockworkers from Smith Cove Piers during the Seattle dock strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Mayor Charles L. Smith of Seattle personally led 300 police in a drive to disperse 2,000 pickets from the vicinity of the dock in Seattle [on July 21]. The photo shows mounted police, advancing information and using night sticks, driving pickets from the Smith Cove Piers.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection