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Deputy District Attorney Edwin Meyers during the Douglas Aircraft sit-down strike trial, Los Angeles, 1937

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Title: Deputy District Attorney Edwin Meyers during the Douglas Aircraft sit-down strike trial, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Deputy District Attorney Edwin Meyers holding a big stack of papers during the Douglas Aircraft sit-down strike trial in which 352 defendants were prosecuted for conspiring to illegally enter and occupy the aircraft plant. The trial opened May 11, 1937 and ran for several months.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Averre, E.C. - Court Clerk; Meyers, Edwin - Dep. D.A.; VanCotta, A.A. - " "; Barnes, John - " "; (Douglas Aircraft Sit-down Strike Trial 3-9-37).
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Dep. D.A. Edwin Myers
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00288h8c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
People
Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Activism
Legal
Meyers, Edwin
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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