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Clarence Townsend and Kenneth L. Mayes, striking street car operators, accused of purchasing dynamite, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Clarence Townsend and Kenneth L. Mayes, striking street car operators, accused of purchasing dynamite, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: Dec. 14, 1934
1934-12-14
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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to Los Angeles Times articles “Dynamiting Case Heard; Witness Tells of Purchase; Asserted Statements Which Accuse Strike Leaders Read Into Record,” 15, Dec. 1934: A1, and “Trolley Strike Case Up; Ex-Conductor, Accused of Conspiracy to Use Dynamite Gets Hearing Today,” 21, Jan. 1935: A1, and “Car Striker Convicted: One Defendant in Dynamite Case Found Guilty and Other Acquitted,” 27, Mar. 1935: A1.
Clarence Townsend and Kenneth L. Mayers, striking street car men, at their preliminary hearing on charges they purchased dynamite with the intent of using it in a plan to bring an end to the strike.
Handwritten on negative: Clarence Townsend
Text from negative sleeve: Townsend, Clarence 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4020
ark:/21198/zz002cpr07
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dynamite
Street railroad employees--California--Los Angeles
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Mayes, Kenneth L
Townsend, Clarence
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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