Opened on November 12, 1936 and one of the country’s most iconic structures; the cost of the Bay Bridge in lives. Their names, ages, occupations, and addresses.

‘To the Memory of the 23 Who Died Building the Bridge’ from Western Worker. Vol. 5 No. 92. November 16, 1936.

AS SAN FRANCISCO celebrates the completion of a great achievement–the opening of the Bay Bridge, let us not forget the memory of those 23 workers on the bridge who died in the course of its construction.

Let us not forget that they died victims of a system which sacrifices the lives of workers on the altar of greed for profits, for these 23 men died due to lack of safety nets and other proper protection.

The 23 were:

LOUIS R. KNIGHT, 24, 1004 Eighteenth street, Oakland; rigger; killed November 25, 1933.

WILLIAM H. MOROTZKE, 1068 Seventy-first avenue, Oakland; carpenter; December 8, 1933.

E.S. HILL, calker; December 10, 1933.

LLOYD H. EVANS, 40, 391 Valencia street, San Francisco; diver; December 14, 1933.

HAROLD SCHWANTES, 22, 2218 107th avenue, Oakland; construction worker; April 21, 1934.

GEORGE J. WEIKERT, 33, 1030 Larkin street, San Francisco; bridgeman; September 18, 1934.

DONALD MCEACHERN, 21, 440 Hyde street, San Francisco; bridgeman; October 25, 1934.

BERNARD HAUFFMAN, 31, 1273 Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco; electrician’s helper; November 12, 1934.

R.L. POOLE, 34, 1159 Hyde street, San Francisco; rigger; December 5, 1934.

ADOLPH SIVERSTEIN 51, 975 Moultrie street, San Francisco; carpenter; January 21, 1935.

CHRISTY THOMPSON, 47, 506 Oak street, San Francisco; carpenter; March 6, 1935.

HENRY DENNINGTON, 44, 693 Eighteenth street, Oakland; bridgeman; June 5, 1935.

ARTHUR LAMOREAUX, 30, 1042 Forty-fifth street, Oakland; bridgeman; June 17, 1935.

MICHAEL EDWARD MARKEY, 31, 1351 Ellis street, San Francisco; bridgeman; July 2, 1935.

WALTER VANDENBURG, 39, 1161 Rhode Island street, San Francisco; bridgeman; September 16, 1935.

MARION TAVARES, 40, 837 Camelia street, Berkeley; concrete laborer; November 6, 1935.

ED CORRELL, 31, 951 O’Farrell street, San Francisco, foreman painter; December 5, 1935.

PAUL SHELTON 26, 350 Grove street, San Francisco; bridgeman; March 28, 1936.

CHARLES BAZZILL, 39, 391 Valencia street, San Francisco; bridgeman; April 9, 1936.

ROY C. BISHOP, 35, 856 Fifty-eighth avenue, Oakland; rigger; April 21, 1936.

PAUL GURLEY, 24, 632 Twenty-fifth avenue, San Francisco; bridgeman; June 3, 1936.

GEORGE ZINK 40, 325 Capistrano Way, San Francisco; carpenter; June 7, 1936.

W. AGUADO, 22, 241 Eighth street, San Francisco, July 10, 1936.

Western Worker was the publication of the Communist Party in the western United States, focused on the Pacific Coast, from 1933 until 1937. Originally published twice monthly in San Francisco, it grew to a weekly, then a twice-weekly and then merged with the Party’s Daily Worker on the West Coast to form the People’s Daily World which published until 1957. Its issues contain a wealth of information on Communist activity and cultural events in the west of those years.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1936/v5n92-w353-nov-16-1936.pdf