Pickets - This was the scene yesterday in front of the telephone company’s main office at 430 Bush Street as pickets patrolled the entrance.

Squeeze Play - Striking CIO oil workers yesterday were attempting to shut off the secondary source of gasoline at distribution depots in the Bay area.

Vandalism - This is a picture of one of the three slashed tires on the auto at left. The car's engine also was smashed with some heavy tool

Strike Violence - Arrested on charges of inciting a riot in the Richmond oil strike are, left to right: Floyd C. Selle, Werter L. Vetter, Edward Meindesee and Thomas R. Vandegrift. At right is Jailor S. G. Schofield.

Rushing to Attack, Pickets Swarm on the First Truckload of Spinach

On The Job - Non-union telephone workers are shown as they stuck to their posts yesterday as the strike got underway.

Chief - Police Chief Charles Dullea personally led his men yesterday when word was flashed to headquarters that violence was imminent. Above, Chief Dullea gets into the thick of the outburst and lends a hand in pushing back the demonstrators.

Policemen herd a group of demonstrators in yesterday's strike outburst off the street onto the sidewalk.

Defiant - Officers had a brief but difficult time restraining this CIO picket from remaining in the way of the trucks. The incident threatened for a minute to turn into an outright clash between pickets and police, but serious trouble was averted.

On Picket Line - Here are four of the pickets who kept the entire Pacific coast waterfront closed down yesterday in a renewal of the labor warfare which has hit the coast intermittently for more than a decade.

Truck Halted - H. W. Carr, right, city sales manager for the Richfield plant at Redwood City, talks to two pickets, M. A. Christensen, left and A. A. Jones after the pickets had halted a truck attempting to leave the plant.

Rolling Through - Richmond policemen, many of them steel helmeted and equipped with tear gas guns and masks, stand alerted along the road leading into the Standard Oil plant as a heavily loaded truck and trailer rolls toward the main gate.

The Riddle's

Mount Clark - Echo Ridge

Innocent Victim - Charles Hill, of 608 Beloit Avenue, Berkley was carrying his own typewriter yesterday in the vicinity of the demonstrating Oakland strike mobs. Believing he had purchased the typewriter from a picketed store, pickets pounced upon him,

Casualty! Shot in the mouth in the Stockton labor battle

Jail Bound - This Patrol wagon carried a full load to jail yesterday as the incipient riot in Grant Avenue was quelled. Many of those arrested continued to resist to the very steps of the wagon.

[Women demonstrating during telephone strike, San Francisco]

Strikers -Picketing of Key System cabarns started at 4 a.m. yesterday, with the pickets in uniform. A union spokesman said pickets were ordered to wear uniforms because the strike leaders didn't want "outsiders" joining in any demonstrations.

Reinforcements - Examiner Reporter Dick Pollard, eyewitness to yesterday's violence in Richmond, said infuriated strikers shouted "Heil Hitler" as they rushed into battle with police assigned to keep order.

Scattered - A scene at the peak of the battle as tear gas scattered the rioters. Police remonstrated with the strikers. 'You're only making it worse,' they pleaded. 'Cutout the violence.' The advice of the officers was answered with jeers.

Wrecked Auto - close-up of the damaged interior of a non-striking oil worker's auto after vandals in Richmond had finished their work. - Photo by the San Francisco Examiner.

Struggle - This picture was made at the peak of the oil strike struggle. An unidentified policeman staves off an attack as fists and feet flew in the battle. Although vastly outnumbered, the police eventually restored order.

Minarets, Iceberg Lake