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Title: Counting votes that ended transit strike threat
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Union men work far into the night counting ballots on a Los Angeles Transit Line offer of 9-cents an hour wage increase. The offer was accepted, 1199 to 973, averting a strike set for midnight Sunday. Ballots are counted at union headquarters, 656 South Los Angeles Street.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028843
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5410.
CARL0000034539
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8016
Subject: Los Angeles Transit Lines
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Transportation--California--Los Angeles
Labor unions--Officials and employees
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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