GREEK AMERICAN COMMUNISTS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL STRIKE OF 1934 By Daniel Frontino Elash Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, March 2007 - Volume 33 , pages 22-38 ----- DANIEL FRONTINO FLASH is a graduate student at San Francisco State University where he earned a BA degree in an interdisciplinary special major, Mediterranean Languages and History, which included the study of modern Greek, Italian, and Arabic. His graduate work focuses on American immigrant and labor history. ----- "While not exactly a household name, Nick Bordoise is a man of some importance to local and national labor history due to his violent death in the course of the 1934 longshoremen's strike in San Francisco. Due to the controversy then and now about the status of immigrants, especially those with radical political commitments, even those who do remember Bordoise do not necessarily remember that he was a Greek and a communist—two characterizations he wo...