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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."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 16 cm. Photographic prints
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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