The State - News from March 9, 1988

Twenty construction workers were arrested as San Francisco police moved swiftly to prevent a second day of raucous protests by union members who disrupted the opening day of a contractor’s convention. The arrests were for isolated incidents of egg tossing and disturbing the peace in what was otherwise a subdued protest outside a meeting of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc., an employer’s organization that hires mostly non-union workers. On Monday, a crowd of 5,000--the largest workers’ protest in the city in 40 years--mobbed the street outside Moscone Center, hurling eggs and tomatoes at conventioneers and shouting, “Get out of San Francisco.”