Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Craft workers on strike stand outside Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios in Culver City. Nearly 2500 craft studio workers went on strike against major motion picture studios, including MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. The strike was issued by Charles Lessing, president of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, and the American Federation of Labor. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Strikes - Motion Picture (1937). In pen: Motion Picture Industry; MGM Studios; Warner Bros. Studio; Paramount Studios. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Strikes, movie pickets MGM, Chief Truschel, Culver City.
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b&w nitrate negative
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ark:/21198/zz00288p15
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Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles Strikes--California--Los Angeles Activism Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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