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Title: Washing off gasoline after wild strike riot
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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: Firemen play streams of water on one of two trucks overturned during the wild hour-long riot by 500 pickets at Meyer & Welch engine rebuilding plant in Vernon. Besides these two trucks, seven other cars were overturned. Several people, including two newspaper photographers, were injured. Photo dated: September 21, 1951.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036795
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039832
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11954
Subject: Meyer & Welch (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Strikes and lockouts--California--Los Angeles
Labor movement--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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