Members of the Pacific Electric Trainmen's strike committee receiving news that their 2:00 am worker walkout would be postponed due to intervention from President Roosevelt, Los Angeles, November 2, 1937

Item Overview

Title

Members of the Pacific Electric Trainmen's strike committee receiving news that their 2:00 am worker walkout would be postponed due to intervention from President Roosevelt, Los Angeles, November 2, 1937

Date Created

November 2, 1937

Date

1937-11-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

C.T. Nolan, strike chairman of the Pacific Electric section of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, with O.R. Newhouse, J.S. Newman, W.P. Cook, and L.R. Spindel, other members of the strike committee, receiving news that their planned 2:00 am worker walkout had been blocked by President Roosevelt. The President had appointed a commission to negotiate the Brotherhood's disputes over unfair wages and hours. It was agreed that, during the negotiations, the strike would be postponed.

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Pacific Electric Trainmen's Strike Committee; O.R. Newhouse; J.S. Newman; C.T. Nolan; W.P. Cook; L.R. Spindel
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: P E trainmens strike committee - J. S. Newman, O.R. Newhouse, W.P. Cook, C.T. Nolan & L.R. Spindel

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Pacific Electric Railway Company
Cook, W.P.
Newman, J.S.
Newhouse, O.R.
Spindel, L.R.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Nolan, C.T.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Committees--American--California--Los Angeles
Government
Railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Activism
Labor unions--California--Los Angeles