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Title
L.A. market clerks hold 'prayer-strike' meeting
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Some of the 6000 A.F.L. Retail Clerks Union members leave the Shrine Auditorium after taking part in a "prayer-strike" in connection with their work stoppage at 50 Los Angeles area food markets. At the end of the "prayer-strike" meeting their union leader told them to go home, not to return to their jobs and to come back to the Shrine Auditorium tomorrow for another meeting. Photo dated: July 8, 1952.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036775
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039818
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11939
Subject
Strikes and lockouts--California--Los Angeles
Labor movement--California--Los Angeles
Markets--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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