Strikers Attack the Canal Car Barn & Burn Cars

ID: 1931 ~ Source: Courtesy of Michael Mizell-Nelson.
This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike

Excerpt from video documentary Streetcar Stories.

This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike

By Michael Mizell-Nelson
Following increasingly heated contract negotiations, New Orleans streetcar motormen and conductors struck beginning July 1, 1929. The survival of the carmen's union and 1,100 jobs was in question.…