Derailed street car crashes into trolley post, Los Angeles, 1934

Description: An automobile axle was laid across the tracks at McClintock Ave and 37th, presumably by union railway strikers, and caused the derailment of a trolley on the yellow line carrying over fifty passengers.
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.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “P. E. Offers Union Wage Concessions,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec 1934: 1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: L. A. Ry. Strike. 6546 Car wreck at 37th & McClintock 1934

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles
Names: Los Angeles Railway
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.020425
Latitude: -118.290080
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_14491
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j837c
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