Union squabbles were part of life on Portland waterfront

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 2 p.m.

Every few years, in the early 1900s, burly and hard-fisted dock workers got into a battle of wills with the autocratic sea-captains who ran the shipping companies. Most of the time, the dock workers got the worst of it. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890-1919) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1303e-union-squabbles-on-portland-waterfront.html)