In New Orleans in 1907 a general strike on the levees, involving ten thousand workers {longshoremen, teamsters, freight handlers}, black and white, lasted twenty days. The head of the Negro longshoremen, E. S. Swan, said: The whites and Negroes were never before so strongly cemented in a common bond and in my 39 years of experience of the levee, I never saw such solidarity. In all the previous strikes the Negro was used against the white man but that condition is now past and both races are standing together for their common interests….
( Howard Zinn )
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