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Detective Lieutenant George Hill shoots tear gas toward Los Angeles Railway strikers, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Detective Lieutenant George Hill shoots tear gas toward Los Angeles Railway strikers, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: November 26, 1934
1934-11-26
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
In November of 1934, members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees confronted the Los Angeles Railway Corporation to contract with their union in support of wage increases ad to operate under union rules. A strike followed when the union was challenged and railway operations were halted or slowed down on a number of occasions.
This photograph appears with the headline, “Police Hurl Tear Gas to Break Up Wild Strike Riot at Seventh and Broadway,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: 3.
Text from newspaper caption: Fleeting from police gas attack at Seventh street and Broadway, hecklers, sympathizers and spectators are given another charge of tear gas at Seventh and Spring streets by Detective Lieutenant George Hill.
Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14465
ark:/21198/zz002j82bf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Tear gas
Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Hill, George James, 1897-1970
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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