Communications Workers of America members pointing at a door where strikers threw eggs and smashed windows at the 6th Avenue exchange of the Southern Bell Telephone Company in Birmingham, Alabama.
They are carrying signs that reads, "C.W.A. on Strike Against Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co." and "C.W.A. on Strike Because Southern Bell Rejected Arbitration." In 1955, CWA members staged a successful 72-day strike against Southern Bell. This photograph was publishe...
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| Summary: | They are carrying signs that reads, "C.W.A. on Strike Against Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co." and "C.W.A. on Strike Because Southern Bell Rejected Arbitration." In 1955, CWA members staged a successful 72-day strike against Southern Bell. This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on April 9 with the following caption: "Pickets at the Sixth-av exchange of Southern Bell Telephone Co. here point to doors of the building where strikers and their sympathizers threw eggs and smashed windows early Saturday." |
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