Liberty Hill

Liberty Hill (HMS8I)

Location: Los Angeles, CA 90731 Los Angeles County
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Country: United States of America
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N 33° 44.439', W 118° 16.833'

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In 1923 the Marine Transport Industrial Workers Union 510, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), called a strike that immobilized 90 ships here in San Pedro. The Union protested low wages, bad working conditions, and imprisonment of union activists under California's criminal syndicalism law. Denied access to public property, strikers and supporters rallied here at this site they called "Liberty Hill." Writer Upton Sinclair was arrested for reading from the Bill of Rights to a large gathering. The strike failed but laid a foundation for success in the 1930s. The syndicalism law was ruled unconstitutional in 1968.
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HM NumberHMS8I
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Marker Number1021
Year Placed1998
Placed ByState Department of Parks and Recreation, San Pedro Bay Historical Society, American Labor Movement
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Date Added Friday, October 17th, 2014 at 8:40pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)11S E 381381 N 3734136
Decimal Degrees33.74065000, -118.28055000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 33° 44.439', W 118° 16.833'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds33° 44' 26.34" N, 118° 16' 49.98" W
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Area Code(s)310, 562, 424
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 140-184 W 5th St, Los Angeles CA 90731, US
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