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Man sleeping in car with picket signs reading "On Strike against Construction Teamsters Local 420" posted outside, Los Angeles, Calif., 1971

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Title: Man sleeping in car with picket signs reading "On Strike against Construction Teamsters Local 420" posted outside, Los Angeles, Calif., 1971
Contributor: Olender, Ben
Date Created and/or Issued: November 24, 1971
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4430
Description: WEARY PICKETER--A tired Teamster picketer takes time out for a snooze in sports car at 2nd and Figueroa Sts. About 11,000 of the 16,000 Teamsters in the area are striking against construction contractors in 11 Southern Californian counties. The strike began Monday.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b687_269624B-1
ark:/21198/zz0002nhg5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--Construction workers--California--Los Angeles County
Picketing--California--Los Angeles County
Activism
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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