Warehouse District plaque dedicated to remember violent 1934 truckers' strike

Source: Star Tribune

By Stephen Montemayor

Pickets returned to the Minneapolis Warehouse District on Saturday, nearly 81 years to the day after a strike there turned violent when police shot 67 truckers, killing two and sparking the city’s labor movement.

Their cause this time: To remember the events of July 20, 1934, by dedicating a plaque on the side of the Sherwin Williams building on 3rd Street N., where striker Henry Ness was killed by officers.

“How many slugs did they say he had put in him?” Gail Martinsen asked her sister, Nadine Ness, as they stood on the corner where their grandfather was shot.

“They said that there were 38 bullets in his back,” Ness said, noting many strikers were shot in the back and some were shot before they got out of their trucks.

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