In recognition of Labor Day.
1. United Airlines ground workers on strike, July 1968.
Photo by Ralph Crane.
2. The Brown Derby waiters strike of 1934, when waiters were being paid 90 cents a day and were asking for a base of $15/week. This strike lasted three months.
3. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union pickets nonunion dressmakers during the Biltmore Bowl, Jan. 18, 1940.
4. Red car operators picketing during a Pacific Electric Railway strike in 1943.
5. My all-time favorite: the lone picketer who stopped work at the Park La Brea construction site on Sept 15, 1949. More than 2,000 tradespeople refused to cross.
6. Carpenters Union on strike in 1949, looks like Gower with Columbia Studios on the left.
7. Striking workers review their growing “Scab Gallery,” during a Douglas Aircraft strike in Long Beach in 1952. Photo by George Silk.
8. César Chavez marches with farm workers during the five-year Delano grape strike that led to the formation of the United Farm Workers Union. Photo by Ernest Lowe, taken March 15, 1966.
9. “The longer the picket line, the shorter the strike.” Also taken by Lowe during the grape strike - March 16, 1966.
10. Disneyland’s maintenance on strike, taken March 7, 1979. In total, 500 workers marched from 14 different unions.
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Sources: 1,7. LIFE Magazine; 2,4,5,10. @lapubliclibrary; 3,6. @uclalibrary; 8,9. UC Merced.
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