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Title
Idle buses
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
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
Buses, buses, everywhere and not a one to ride. Greyhound buses stand idle at in a company lot at 7th and Lawrence Streets. The union is asking that wages be increased from $7.26 to $8.50 per 100 miles and hourly rates for short-run drivers be increased from $1.64 to $2.04. Greyhound buses carry 5,000 passengers in and out of Los Angeles each day. Photo dated: March 3, 1952.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068663
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7452.
CARL0000071656
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24213
Subject
Greyhound Corporation
Strikes and lockouts--Bus drivers--California--Los Angeles
Picketing--California--Los Angeles
Buses--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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