Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer Strike Violence - State police and firemen use a stream of water from a fire hose to disperse a picket line of several hundred striking film workers at the Warner Brothers plant in Burbank yesterday.
Unidentified Photographer Graham Shipyards Strike; A.F.L. Shipyard workers going through C.I.O. Pickets
Bill Herman Picket Violence - CIO Pickets at the Union Switch and Signal Company's Swissvale plant near Pittsburgh, Pa., attempt to turn over an auto containing the plant manager and a vice president who tried to crash picket lines.
Unidentified Photographer Ready for Trouble - CIO refinery pickets and strike sympathizers were all set yesterday outside the Standard Oil plant in Richmond for a renewal of Tuesday's battle with police. But no violence occurred, due to a CIO-AFL truce.
Unidentified Photographer Squeeze Play - Striking CIO oil workers yesterday were attempting to shut off the secondary source of gasoline at distribution depots in the Bay area.
Unidentified Photographer 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
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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,
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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."
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer Outbreak - Nonstriking movie workers tangle with pickets outside the Paramount Studio gate in Hollywood where yesterday another outbreak violence marked the film labor troubles.
Seymour Snaer 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.
Seymour Snaer 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.
Unidentified Photographer 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.
Unidentified Photographer On The Job - Non-union telephone workers are shown as they stuck to their posts yesterday as the strike got underway.