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NO. 1021 LIBERTY HILL SITE - In 1923 the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union 510, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), called a strike that immobilized 90 ships here in San Pedro. The union protested low wages, bad working conditions, and the imprisonment of union activists under California's Criminal Syndicalism Law. Denied access to public property, strikers and their supporters rallied here at this site they called "Liberty Hill." Writer Upton Sinclair was arrested for reading from the Bill of Rights to a large gathering. The strike failed but laid a foundation for success in the 1930s. The Syndicalism Law was ruled unconstitutional in 1968.
Location
Vicinity of 5th St. & Harbor Blvd., San Pedro. (In front of 100 W. 5th Street, San Pedro)
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NO. 1021 LIBERTY HILL SITE - Road Sign
NO. 1021 LIBERTY HILL SITE - Marker
NO. 1021 LIBERTY HILL SITE - State Plaque
NO. 1021 LIBERTY HILL SITE - Address