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. Members of the Los Angeles Railway Employees Association replaced strikers. This photograph appears with the headline, "Vandals Upset Two More Cars as Strike Terror Continues," Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov 1934: 1, 10. Text from newspaper caption: [above:] Shrieks of Police Sirens Save This Car from Tumbling on Its Side [below:] Broken wheel carriers held this inbound street car from crashing to its side at Seventh and Los Angeles streets last night at the peak of the rush hour. Strikers, who beat Motorman D. E. Moore as they forced a capacity load of passengers to dismount, struggled for several minutes to rock the vehicle from the tracks but had to flee before their vandalism was completed when wailing police sirens signaled the approach of officers. Emergency crews righted the car and cleared the tracks in less than an hour. Lines of both the Los Angeles and the Pacific Electric Railways were blockaded by the disabled car. (Wide World photos) Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14484 ark:/21198/zz002j830r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Railway
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