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Title: May Day Conference
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Quillen, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
A large crowd of labor union members have gathered to participate in a May Day demonstration at La Plaza. One sign reads, "We Demand Representation on Citizens Relief Committee" and another reads "Free Tom Mooney," referencing the prison sentence of the American labor leader who was accused of being behind the Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916 in San Francisco.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print:b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069992
Harry Quillen Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
L.A.-Protests.
CARL0000075961
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120448
Subject: Communist Party of America
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
May Day (Labor holiday)
Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.)
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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