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Title
50 phone clerks halt for pickets
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Dean, Gordon
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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
Photograph caption dated September 17, 1957 reads, "Clerks won't cross picket line - Women clerks, right, refuse to cross Western Electric telephone installers' picket line around Van Nuys accounting office of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Fifty women, nearly half belonging to same local, 9503, as strikers, stayed off work."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 16 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00115618
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d017_f17_i4
CARL0005318807
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49500
Subject
Western Electric Company
Western Electric Company--Employees
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company--Employees
Telephone companies--Employees--Labor unions
Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles
Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles--Employees
Women--California--Los Angeles
Palms--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Sidewalks--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Men--California--Los Angeles
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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