Subject: Strikes--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Works Progress Administration strike leaders gathered together in a dusty field
Date:: [March 4, 1938?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike. Twenty or more seamstresses participated in the strike and demanded that women who had been laid off get re-hired.
Date:: December 6, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women and children gather in support of the United Mill, Mine, and Smelter Workers Union. 1000 union workers walked out of the San Jacinto Tunnel project, part of the Colorado River Aqueduct, on August 15, 1937. The women and children assisted the protesting workers in continuing to strike. The workers had requested that Mine, Mill and Smelter be the sole bargaining agent for all tunnel construction workers. Approximately 500 non-union workers continued to operate essential maintenence and machinery for the tunnel project. Circa August 16, 1937.
Date:: August 16, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The Conference of Studio Unions strike was against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:: October 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Conference of Studio Unions strike was against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:: October 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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