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1935 Redwood Lumber Strike

Plaque text:

1935 REDWOOD LUMBER STRIKE

Striking sawmill workers gathered in a mass picket at a redwood mill due west of Fort Humboldt on June 21, 1935, trying to convince local redwood mill owners to bargain with their union.

Police ordered the strikers to disperse. As they were leaving, a tear gas canister was fired into the crowd. It knocked Jerrine Canarri to the ground, unconscious. The strikers, believing she had been killed, turned and fought. In the clash that followed, three strikers were killed and scored injured. Those killed were:

Harold Edlund, Wilhelm Kaarte, Paul Lampella.

Three groups of strikers were prosecuted on charges arising from the confrontation, but no one was convicted. No one was brought to trail for the deaths of the three strikers.

Central Labor Council of Humboldt & Del Norte Counties, AFL-CIO
Building Trades Council of Humboldt & Del Norte Counties, AFL-CIO

Plaque located at the former mill site, now the site of the Bayshore Mall. Photograph taken 2014. The redwood mill's former gate is now located at the entryway to Sequoia Park. Submitted by Tyler Cline.

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