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. A street car was targeted on Bixel and Third streets and set ablaze. Two strikers were later arrested on suspicion of arson. This photograph is likely related to the article, “Police Map Drive to halt Violence in Trolley Strike,” Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov 1934: 1, 6. Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14469 ark:/21198/zz002j82gh
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arson--California--Los Angeles Street railroads--California--Downtown Los Angeles Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Railway
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