National Guard troops in Aberdeen during strike — 7/8/1935 — #14116_5_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
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.
In this picture, National Guard troops with rifles and fixed bayonets escort men across Heron St.
