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Title
Five women jailed, garment workers' strike
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1941
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photo shows five women who were arrested in the strike outbreak at the garment worker's strike in Los Angeles. Left to right: Jennie Lechtman, booked on suspicion of malicious mischief; Edith Mann, charged with assault and battery; Rose Pesotta, union organizer held on a charge of battery; Wilma De Angilis, who assertedly struck a worker; and Pearl Axlerod, booked on a charge of battery. Photo dated: July 29, 1941.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00040725
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6533.
CARL0000044631
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12614
Subject
Textile industry--California--Los Angeles
Factories--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--California--Los Angeles
Clothing workers--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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