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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation 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 negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934 Text from newspaper caption: Detective Lieutenant Jack Stambler fires first tear gas charge over heads of rioters and spectators at Seventh street and Broadway after an hour and a half of agitation and traffic tie-up of street cars.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14466 ark:/21198/zz002j82cz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Strikes--California--Los Angeles Labor unions--California--Los Angeles Railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles Tear gas Police--California--Los Angeles Stambler, Jack A., 1906-1982
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