Strike supporters at Canal Streetcar Barn
This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike
The crowd surrounding the Canal Streetcar Barn on July 5, 1929 waits for the first strikebreaker car to emerge. Logs, rails, cement, dirt, and other materials were used to slow down the car and make it easier to brickbat.
Mizell-Nelson Collection
This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike
1929 Streetcar Strike
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.…