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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.
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Back to Work - CIO picket lines were crossed yesterday at the Standard Oil refinery in Richmond by non striking AFL and independent union workers after the word went out: "We're not going to be pushed around by a lot of Communists."
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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.
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Preparation - State Highway Patrolman Joe Blake, left, and Sergeant Dillon unload tear gas equipment from a truck as the highway forces concentrated at Martinez yesterday on orders of Acting Governor Knight to quell violence in the oil strike
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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.
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Outbreak - Nonstriking movie workers tangle with pickets outside the Paramount Studio gate in Hollywood where yesterday another outbreak violence marked the film labor troubles.
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Defiant - An unidentified man at the left raises a clenched fist at the officer who is pushing him toward the side-walk. Only those who physically resisted police orders to disperse were placed under arrest.
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Scuffle -- Scenes such as the above were frequent in yesterday's "Battle of Grant Avenue," as police stemmed a mob of striking telephone workers. Here a policeman pushes a man away from the center of the milling mob.
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Thumbs Down - Acting on instructions from their CIO bosses, these longshoremen hold their noses and turn thumbs down at a sign outside the Army transport hiring office at Fort Mason. Later, pickets were formed to urge longshoremen not to accept work.
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On The Job - Non-union telephone workers are shown as they stuck to their posts yesterday as the strike got underway.
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Pickets - This was the scene yesterday in front of the telephone company’s main office at 430 Bush Street as pickets patrolled the entrance.
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