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. Members of the Los Angeles Railway Employees Association replaced strikers. This photograph appears with the headline, "Street Car Strikers Map campaign as Company equips for Possible Violence," Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov 1934: 11. Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934 Text from newspaper caption: workman places heavy screen on the street car to protect motorman from bricks or other missiles as the Los Angeles Railway acts to safeguard its loyal employees from any disturbance during the strike. Schedules were reported normal yesterday.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14480 ark:/21198/zz002j82v6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Street railroads--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Railway
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