Myrtle Edwards Park

This guide to Myrtle Edwards Park in Seattle starts on a night in June 1934, when longshoreman Shelvy Daffron was shot in the back at an oil dock along this same shoreline while trying to stop strikebreaking tankers. Six thousand waterfront workers marched behind his coffin as the whole West Coast walked off the docks that summer, turning this stretch of Elliott Bay into a battlefield. The guide traces the trail north along today's path to Smith Cove, where sailor Olaf Helland stood on the picket line, and asks what the strikers were still fighting for months later.