Protesters and a cloud of tear gas during Los Angeles Railway strike, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Protesters and a cloud of tear gas during Los Angeles Railway strike, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: November 26, 1934
Date: 1934-11-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the headline, “Police Hurl Tear Gas to Break Up Wild Strike Riot at Seventh and Broadway,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: 3.
Strikers and protesters running away from tear gas sprayed by officers on 7th and Broadway.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.045202
Latitude: -118.253387
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Tear gas
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14471
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j82jj
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Rights Country: US
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