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 article, “P. E. Offers Union Wage Concessions,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec 1934: 1. Text from newspaper caption: An automobile axle laid across the tracks at the Thirty-seventh street and McClintock avenue last night derailed this south-bound “U” car of the Los Angeles Railway Company, which crashed against a trolley post on the east side of McClintock avenue. An emergency crew replaced the vehicle on the tracks within a few minutes and traffic suffered little delay. Of more than fifty passengers riding on the car at the time, only seven were removed to the Georgia-street receiving Hospital where they were treated for shock. None was injured. Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14482 ark:/21198/zz002j82x7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Railway
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