HAYMARKET TO HONOLULU

C.A.. Collins traces back to Haymarket riot in 1886 that had a monumental impact for all labor movements - globally. In carrying out research on labor leader Harry Bridges who is an icon in his adopted city of San Francisco there were no shortage of links between Bridges and author Jack London - quite stunning similarities. Bridges He was born in Melbourne in 1901and went to sea as sixteen as a sailor came to blows with the Captain of a vessel he was on in 1920 and and jumped shop iby the City by the Bay where author Jack London was born in 1876. He struggled to make his name in literature until is Call of the Wild was published in 1903 in the Saturday Evening Post, shortly thereafter as a book that bought the writerJack London fame and fortune.

She was struck by the similarities between Jack London and Harry Bridges in their political passions, of Socialism, workers right and Unionization. It wasnt that as a young man of ten in Melbourne he may have read The Cruise of the Snark and become an ardent fan of jack Londons books he wanted to live in part London 's life - he succeeded in that but in spite of smoking managed to live twice as ling plus eight years longer than London who died at forty whereas Bridges lived to the age of eighty-eight.

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