SF Rincon Hill Sailors Union (0485)

"You can put me in jail. But you cannot give me narrower quarters than as a seaman I have always had. You cannot give me coarser food than I have always eaten. You cannot make me lonelier than I have always been." Furuseth's credo, on the memorial to Andrew Furuseth, a Norwegian who became an American labor leader in the very contentious seafarer labor battles of the 20th century. He formed and led for many years the Sailors Union of the Pacific.