•  What a newspaper that not only covered labor affairs but had a real labor perspective might be like.
•  The class bias of the corporate-controlled media.
•  What factors might lead to people scabbing.
•  How conflicting values come into play with the introduction of new technologies and workplace     re-organization.
•  How the situation of local unions up against a national corporation differs from the circumstances of the longshore strike, in which coastwide solidarity shut down the shipping companies. More broadly, how conditions of struggle differ from industry to industry.

The events at this site are sufficiently recent that there are a number of community resources. Gene Klare probably has more information than anyone else. He is a former editor of the Northwest Labor Press. Before that, he was a reporter for the Oregonian who lost his job for supporting the strike and then worked at the Portland Reporter. With high school students, we invited Robert Porter, one of the policemen detailed to protect the scabs. Bob left the police force after the strke and became a longshoreman. Students heard him speak at the site, themselves becoming reporters, questioning him as if this were a press conference. They then wrote up two different versions of his talk, one that they might expect to see in the Oregonian and the other for a contemporary edition of the Portland Reporter.