Metal screens placed on street car windows to protect motormen during L. A. Railway strike, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Metal screens placed on street car windows to protect motormen during L. A. Railway strike, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

[circa November 24, 1934]

Date

1934-11-24

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, "Street Car Strikers Map campaign as Company equips for Possible Violence," Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov 1934: 11.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934
Text from newspaper caption: workman places heavy screen on the street car to protect motorman from bricks or other missiles as the Los Angeles Railway acts to safeguard its loyal employees from any disturbance during the strike. Schedules were reported normal yesterday.

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.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Street railroads--California--Los Angeles