The Fighting Business Agent — Peter Peyton
Longtime ILWU leader, Peter Peyton tells the story of his grandfather, Pete Grassi, a longshoreman who was part of the waterfront strike in 1934 that won West Coast dockworkers their union, the ILWU. Grassi, a man of few words, was known to be a business agent for the ILWU who settled disputes between workers and bosses with a shot to the jaw. .