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DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0375
title: Harvill Corporation plant during a labor strike, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a building and parking lot at Harvill Corporation, a die casting company located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. Members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, struck the company on Jan. 28, 1948 in a dispute over wages and benefits. Harvill placed "Help Wanted" signs at its plant to seek replacements for the strikers. The company also urged members of other unions to dishonor the strike by placing a sign on its building with the following message: "Attention! Teamsters & Others. This strike was called by Mine, Mill & Smelter, the outfit that was kicked out of the C.I.O. It is an honor to cross this picket line." The strike lasted three days, and ended on Feb. 2, after Harvill agreed to the union's demand for a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and the addition of Memorial Day as a paid holiday.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0389
title: Picket line at Phelps-Dodge, circa 1946/1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of picket line during a strike at Phelps-Dodge Cooper Products, located at 6100 Garfield Avenue in Los Angeles. The picketers are members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, who have struck the company for improved wages and benefits. The three men in the foreground are, from left, Rito Valencia, Bob Hawkins (with back to the camera) and Bill Duke.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0384
title: Local 700 members at union headquarters, circa 1957, 3823 E. Gage, Bell

description: Photograph of members of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, Local 700, posing in front of the local's headquarters. The local's union hall was located at 3823 E. Gage in Bell.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0396
title: Retail employees picket during strike at Lucky, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of employees picketing during a strike at Lucky. The strikers are members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 55.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0382
title: Strikers at Union Die Casting demand a wage increase, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of strikers picketing at Union Die Casting Co. in Los Angeles. The strikers are members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Union members who worked at Union Die Casting and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0405
title: Local 558, State, County & Municipal Employees, hold a meeting, circa 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of four members of Local 558, State, County and Municipal Employees, holding a meeting. The members are, standing, left to right, Katherine Van Buren, Pasadena, and Lillian Mahoney, Alhambra; seated, Betty Selden, Los Angeles, treasurer, and Martha Wayne, Pasadena.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0387
title: Strikers picket at Phelps-Dodge plant, circa 1946/1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of strikers picketing the Phelps-Dodge Cooper Products plant at 6100 Garfield Avenue in Los Angeles. The strikers are members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. The striker in the foreground holds a sign demanding that Phelps-Dodge give Local 700 members the same wages and benefits that the company had provided employees at its other plants around the country.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0386
title: Strikers picket at Central Metals, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700 during their strike at Central Metals Inc. The company, located at 7000 Avalon Boulevard in Los Angeles, was one of numerous die casting and metal plants in the Los Angeles area that had contracts with employees of Local 700. The pickets in the photograph hold signs demanding union conditions.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0371
title: Union members march to prevent passage of Taft-Hartley Act, June 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a protest march along Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, featuring picketers from labor unions denouncing the Taft-Hartley bill. Two marchers carry a sign with the words "All labor, all progressive A. F. of L., Railroad Brotherhood, C.I.O., Join to fight the Taft-Hartley Slave Bill." Despite the protests, the bill was adopted, and the Labor Management Relations Act (commonly known as the "Taft-Hartley Act") became law in 1947. The law posed numerous restraints on trade unions, including a well publicized clause requiring all union officers to sign oaths that they were not Communists. The law also banned mass picketing and secondary boycotts, abolished the union closed shop, and authorized employers to interfere in workers' attempts to join a union.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0391
title: Strikers gather outside Eldon Manufacturing Co., circa 1941/1950, 1010 E. 62nd Street, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of strikers gathered outside the Eldon Manufacturing Co., located at 1010 E. 62nd Street in Los Angeles. The strikers, members of the International Union of Mill, Mine and Smelter Workers, Local 700, struck the company during a contract dispute. Roger Byrd, the man in the hat standing by himself on the right, was one of the leaders of the strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0406
title: Mine, mill and smelter workers hold meeting, circa 1947, CIO Regional Headquarters, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, holding a meeting at Regional CIO headquarters in Los Angeles. The CIO headquarters was located at 5851 Avalon Boulevard, the same place where Local 700 was headquartered until the late 1950s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0400
title: Harlem Hospital employees, May 19, 1929, New York City

description: Photograph of the employees at Harlem Hospital in New York City taken on May 19, 1929.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0401
title: Food supplies to be delivered to striking employee, circa 1946/1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of food to be delivered to Willie Jones, one of the employees on strike at Phelps-Dodge Copper Products. The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700 struck Phelps-Dodge sometime in the late 1940s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0403
title: Chrysler employees hold union meeting, circa 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Chrysler employees holding a meeting for members of the U.A.W., Local 230. The union struck Chrysler in the late 1940s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0376
title: Strikers gather at Harvill Corporation, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of strikers gathering outside Harvill Corporations, located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. One of the strikers carries a picket sign reading "Harvill on Strike. No scabs allowed." Another picketer's sign declares "We need a wage increase." The strikers were members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Union members who worked at Harvill and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. When company officials failed to propose an alternative salary hike, union members struck the four firms on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0380
title: Strikers at Universal Die Casting demand a wage increase, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of strikers picketing at Universal Die Casting, located at 5001 S. Santa Fe Avenue in Los Angeles. The picketers, members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, include, from left, Claude Morris holding hands with Eleanor Albino, Rita Serna, Celestino Marquez (in leather jacket), and Gertrude Valdez (holding sign). Union members who worked at Universal and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0379
title: Employees and musicians join the picket line at Universal Die Casting, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of two musicians joining a picket line during a strike at Universal Die Casting. The company, located at 5001 S. Santa Fe Avenue in Los Angeles, was one of four struck by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700 in January 1948. Musicians featured in the photo are Rich Dehr (wearing a hat), a member of Furniture Workers Local 576, and Eddie Mann of Peoples Songs. The picketers, members of Local 700, are, from left, Jess Knapp (holding a sign and partially hidden), Atheline Pearson, Eleanor Albino linking arms with Claude Morris, Rita Serna, and Gertrude Valdez (standing behind picket sign). Union members who worked at Universal and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0378
title: Harvill Corporation advertises for help, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a security guard keeping watch outside the Employment Office at Harvill Corporation, a die casting plant located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. Harvill hung the "Help Wanted" signs after members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700 struck the plant in a wage and benefit dispute. Union members demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. Employees struck Harvill on Jan. 29, 1948, after company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0395
title: Bubbles Williams protests the Taft-Hartley Act, 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Bubbles Williams, holding the sign, giving Carlos Kennedy information about the proposed Taft-Hartley Act. Her sign reads "Perfect Crime, Mr. Taft and Mr. Hartley." This photograph was published in "700 Reporter," the publication of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Despite protests by labor unions throughout the nation, the Labor Management Relations Act (commonly known as the "Taft-Hartley Act") became law in 1947. The law posed numerous restraints on trade unions, including a well publicized clause requiring all union officers to sign oaths that they were not Communists. The law also banned mass picketing and secondary boycotts, abolished the union closed shop, and authorized employers to interfere in workers' attempts to join a union.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0393
title: May Co. employees urge management to end discriminatory hiring, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of May Co. employees writing a letter to Tom May, vice-president of the department store chain. The letter, partially visible in the photograph, reads: "Dear Mr. May: We urge you to stop discriminating in hiring sales and clerical personnel and to establish a fair employment policy at your store."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0372
title: Strikers picket at Harvill Corporation, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of strikers picketing the Harvill Corporation, located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. The strikers were members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Union members who worked at Harvill and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0404
title: Union members hold meeting, circa 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of union members holding a meeting. The members are, seated, left to right, Ethel Levine, vice-president, Local 558, State County and Municipal Employees, AFL, and Rene De Maestri, editor, Union News; standing, Ralph L. Davis, Executive Board Member, and Fred Eisman, representing Local 685, Los Angeles County Probation Officers Union, AFL.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0388
title: Rito Valencia on the picket line during a strike at Phelps-Dodge, circa 1946/1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Rito Valencia picketing at the Phelps-Dodge Cooper Products plant at 6100 Garfield Avenue in Los Angeles. Valencia and other members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, struck Phelps-Dodge to demand higher wages and improved benefits.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0381
title: Strickers picket at Los Angeles Die Casting, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of strikers picketing at Los Angeles Die Casting, located at 340 Crocker Avenue in Los Angeles. The strikers are members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Union members who worked at Los Angeles Die Casting and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0385
title: Strikers picket at Anderson Die Casting, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700 during their strike at Anderson Die Casting and Engineering Corp. The company, located at 1000 E. 60th Street in Los Angeles, was one of numerous die casting plants in the Los Angeles area that had contracts with employees of Local 700. The pickets in the photograph hold signs demanding a wage increase and a union shop.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0023
title: Joseph Blackburn Bass welcomes Olympic athlete Eddie Tolan to the California Eagle, 1932, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Joseph Blackburn Bass, left, in front of the California Eagle offices with athlete Eddie Tolan, second from right, and two unidentified women. Tolan, who is holding what appears to be an award, won two Olympic Gold Medals in the 100 and 200 meter dashes during the 10th Olympic Games held in 1932 in Los Angeles. Bass, the husband of Charlotta Bass, was editor of the Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0009
title: Charlotta Bass with her high school class, Providence, Rhode Island, ca. 1900.

description: Photograph of a group of high school students, including five African-American children. Charlotta Spears is seated in the center of the second row.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0011
title: Charlotta Bass and three women, circa 1901/1910

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, second from left, and her sister, Victorine Spears Kinloch, left. The other two women may be Bass' other sisters, Lillian and Lena.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0019
title: John Kinloch in his U.S. Army uniform, circa 1943, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of John Kinloch, (left), in his U.S. Army uniform, with a group of people, including his mother, Victorine Spears Kinloch, (second from right). Kinloch was the nephew of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. Charlotta and her husband, Joseph, did not have any children, and Charlotta was grooming Kinloch to become the Eagle's publisher.. But her plans were shattered when Kinloch, who was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943, died two years later in combat in Germany.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0022
title: Joseph Blackburn Bass and Leon H. Washington, circa 1930, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Joseph Blackburn Bass, left, editor of the California Eagle, and Leon H. Washington, the newspaper's advertising manager. Bass and his wife, Charlotta, worked together to publish each weekly edition of their newspaper. Under their leadership, the newspaper crusaded against racism in D.W. Griffith's film, "Birth of a Nation," protested injustice in the military during World War I, and fought restrictive covenants that forced African-Americans and other minorities to live in segregated neighborhoods. Bass became ill in 1932, and died on Nov. 1, 1934. Charlotta continued to edit and publish the newpaper until 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0006
title: Formal portrait of Charlotta Bass, circa 1951/1960, New York City

description: Formal photographic portrait of Charlotte Bass, probably taken in the 1950s. The bottom of the photo contains the words "Proofs only, Pan-American Photo Serv(ice), 20 W. 57th St., N.Y.C."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0018
title: Charlotta Bass and John Kinloch, July 4, 1937, Los Angeles(?)

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass and her nephew, John Kinloch. John was the son of Charlotta's sister, Victorine. He came to Los Angeles from New York City when he was 14, lived with his aunt and attended Polytechnic High School. He later took courses at USC while working as managing editor of his aunt's newspaper, the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0004
title: Charlotta Bass in her later years, circa 1961/1969

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, apparently taken in the 1960s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0012
title: Victorine Spears Kinloch and Alexander Kinloch (?), July 12, 1920, Atlantic City

description: Postcard portrait of Charlotta Bass' sister, Victorine Spears Kinloch, most probably with her husband, Alexander Kinloch. Written on the back of the postcard are the words "July 12, 1920," and "Atlantic City."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0021
title: Lewis K. Beeks of the California Eagle, 1912, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of an African-American man, dressed in a business suit, with a pen in the pocket of his jacket. On the bottom of the photo are written the words "Lewis K. Beeks of Calif. Eagle, 1912." Beeks was an attorney whose law office was located above the California Eagle's office at 8th Street and Central Avenue.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0003
title: Charlotta Bass in her later years, ca. 1961/1969 Elsinore

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, when she had retired and moved to Elsinore (now Lake Elsinore), California. The back of the photo contains a sticker listing her name and address, "Charlotta A. Bass, 709 West Heald Avenue, Elsinore, California." Bass moved to Elsinore in 1960.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0020
title: Private John Kinloch in his U.S. Army uniform, circa 1943, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Pvt. John Kinloch in his U.S. Army uniform. Kinloch, the nephew of Charlotta Bass, was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943. He was sent to Europe, where he was a correspondent for several military publications and American newspapers. In 1945, he volunteered to serve in the infantry and was among the first African-American soldiers to engage in a desegregated U.S. Army battle on the German front. Kinloch was killed while fighting in an attack against the Germans on April 3, 1945.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0016
title: Joseph Blackburn Bass and Frederick Madison Roberts, circa 1921/1930, Los Angeles(?)

description: Photograph of Joseph Blackburn Bass (left), editor-in-chief of the California Eagle and husband of Charlotta Bass, with Frederick Madison Roberts, the first African-American elected to the California Assembly. The men appear to be attending a convention of a fraternal organization because Bass is wearing a fez and a medallion. Roberts served in the California Assembly from 1919-1933. The California Eagle supported Roberts' candidacy and his legislative initiatives aimed at eliminating racial discrimination.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0008
title: Charlotta Bass climbing a flight of stairs, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles(?)

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass climbing a flight of stairs.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0007
title: Head shot of Charlotta Bass, circa 1931/1940

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, which may have been taken in the 1930s, at an unidentified location.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0005
title: Charlotta Bass in her later years, circa 1961/1969

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, apparently taken in the 1960s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0001
title: Charlotta Bass at her desk in the office of the California Eagle, circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass sitting at her desk in the offices of the California Eagle, a weekly newspaper covering Los Angeles' African-American community. The newspaper was published for more than 85 years, and its editorial offices were located at various places along or near Central Avenue, the main thoroughfare of the city's African-American community. Bass (then Charlotta Spears) came to Los Angeles in 1910 and took a job selling advertising for the newspaper. In 1912, upon the death of the newspaper's founder and editor, John J. Neimore, Bass became managing editor and publisher of the newspaper. In 1914, she married Joseph Blackburn Bass, the Eagle's editor-in-chief. She remained the paper's owner until she retired in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0002
title: Charlotta Bass speaking, with outstretched arms, ca. 1941/1950, Los Angeles(?)

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, with her arms outstretched, delivering an address at a dinner.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0010
title: Ellis Spears outside his home, circa 1901/1910, East Providence, Rhode Island

description: Photograph of Ellis Spears, Charlotta Bass' older brother, standing outside his home in East Providence, Rhode Island. Three unidentified children are in the background. Charlotta moved to East Providence from Sumter, South Carolina around 1900 and lived with Ellis Spears.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0014
title: Charlotta Bass and her two sisters at Knott's Berry Farm, June 12, 1947, Buena Park, California

description: Postcard with photograph of Charlotta Bass, right, sitting in a covered wagon at Knott's Berry Farm Ghost Town "Pitchur Gallery." The other two women are Bass' sisters, Victorine Kinloch, left, and Lillian Carter, center.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0013
title: Victorine Kinloch, July, 18, 1948

description: Photograph of Victorine Kinloch, sister of Charlotta Bass, standing on a roof at an unidentified location. On the back of the photo are written the words "'Aunt' Victorine Kinloch," and "Henry Manning took this picture on the roof here." The back of the photo lists the date of the print as July 18, 1948.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0017
title: Young relative of Charlotta Bass (?), circa 1901/1910, Providence, Rhode Island

description: Photograph of a young African-American boy, who may be one of Charlotta Bass' nephews. The photo is mounted on a frame that states it was taken by "W.H. Smith, 830 Potters Avenue, Providence, R.I."