Railway strikers and protesters react to “loyal workers” operating street cars, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Railway strikers and protesters react to “loyal workers” operating street cars, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

November 26, 1934

Date

1934-11-26

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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, “Police Hurl Tear Gas to Break Up Wild Strike Riot at Seventh and Broadway,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: 3.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Jeers and threats assailed loyal workmen on the street cars as they took thousands of workers to their destinations through a cordon of hecklers at Seventh street and Broadway.
Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Railway

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.045178

Latitude

-118.253379

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles