Officials investigating scorched street car on Third and Bixel, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Officials investigating scorched street car on Third and Bixel, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: November 29, 1934
Date: 1934-11-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A street car was targeted on Bixel and Third streets and set ablaze. Two strikers were later arrested on suspicion of arson.
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.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Police Map Drive to halt Violence in Trolley Strike,” Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov 1934: 1, 6.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles Railway
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.057502
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Arson--California--Los Angeles
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Street railroads--California--Downtown Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14469
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j82gh
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Rights Country: US
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