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Description:: Los Angeles Country Relief Administration workers strike due to salary cuts. The strike signs demand a 25% increase in budgets and support the unionization of workers.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles Country Relief Administration workers strike due to salary cuts. The strike signs demand a 25% increase in budgets and support the unionization of workers.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Group of maritime workers holding hooks at the end of a 98-day coast maritime strike which included longshoremen, cooks and stewards, firemen and sailors
Date:: February 5, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Maritime workers gathered around a posted Western Union telegram, probably announcing the end of the 98-day coast maritime strike which included longshoremen, cooks and stewards, firemen and sailors
Date:: February 5, 1937
1937-02-05
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Culver City Chief of Police C.T. Truschel watches craft workers on strike at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Nearly 2500 craft studio workers went on strike against major motion picture studios, including MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. The strike was issued by Charles Lessing, president of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, and the American Federation of Labor.
Date:: July 31, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Strikers during the Conference of Studio Unions strike 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 19, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Studio employees drinking coffee during the Conference of Studio Unions strike 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:: 1945
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:: Police officer talking to a little girl with an A.F. of L. Picket band on her lap. Other men are presumably AFL-Conference of Studio Unions member during their strike 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:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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