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Men and women affiliated with the Los Angeles Railway strike, Los Angeles County, 1934

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Title: Men and women affiliated with the Los Angeles Railway strike, Los Angeles County, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: November 1934
1934-11
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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.
The Los Angeles Railway strike has been termed "industrial warfare" by strikers. The strikers assemble daily at Labor Temple Auditorium, 540 Maple Avenue.
Throngs of men and women are seen associating with one another from an aerial shot of the room. Some of them look into the camera and some wear uniforms.
Photograph appears with the article, "Leaders try to Hide War Plans of Strike," Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov 1934: 2.
Text from newspaper caption: Here are some of the members of the union on strike against the Los Angeles Railway assembled in the Labor Temple for their daily meeting. The women, members of an affiliated organization, were barred from yesterday's meeting.
Text from negative sleeve: Street Car Strike L.A. 1934 Duke L.A. Ry Strike 6546
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14487
ark:/21198/zz002j8339
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles County
Crowds--California--Los Angeles County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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