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Title: Craft workers on strike stand outside Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: July 31, 1937
1937-07-31
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.
Craft workers on strike stand outside Paramount Studios. 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: Strike - Motion Pictures.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00288p36
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Economy
Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles
Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Arts
Activism
Business
Paramount Pictures
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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