Strike parade across Simpson Avenue Bridge — 7/8/1935 — #14116_2_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Hoquiam
Northwest lumber workers went out on strike in May 1935. On July 8, 1935, after Washington State Governor Clarence Martin had called 300 National Guardsmen to Aberdeen to prevent strikers from picketing local mills, an estimated 6,000 striking workers and their supporters paraded along Heron, Wishkah and Market Streets in Aberdeen and later marched to Hoquiam and back.
This photograph looks east as strikers and their supporters march across the Simpson Avenue Bridge into West Hoquiam. Thanks to Steve Leeson for adding information.
Thanks to Sam Talley who adds: "The Hoquiam River Bridge, later renamed the Simpson Avenue Bridge, was built in 1928. The pedestrian walkways are behind the heavy riveted supports on both the right and left sides."
