Images from 1934 Autolite strike

Considered one of the most important strikes in American history, the Toledo Autolite strike is best remembered by its mass pickets and running battles between strikers and police/National Guard.

William Green, President of the AFL, persuaded the unions at Autolite to avoid or delay a strike
Louis F. Budenz, an organizer with the American Workers Party in Toledo, who organized the unemployed to support the strike and engage in mass picketing. Years after the strike, he became a spy for the USSR, and then an anti-'communist' informant.
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
Police arresting strikers, sympathizers, and agitators such as the man on the photo believed to be one.
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
'Rioters' parade a strikebreaker stripped-naked through downtown.
Tear gas projectiles are aimed at the riot area by a guardsman.
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
The Electric Auto-Lite Company's plant on Champlain Street sustained significant damage from a barrage of bricks and stones.
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
Autos of neutral parties overturned and burned by rioting Auto-Lite strikers.
Images from 1934 Autolite strike
The aerial view of the strike riot area around the Electric Auto-Lite plant on Champlain Street, extending to Elm and Mulberry Streets.
Press and news reel photographers perched atop a roof with good view of the events.
An Ohio National Guard officer injured by a brick tossed by rioters is being escorted back to headquarters
Images from 1934 Autolite strike

Comments

syndicalist
Dec 23 2013 16:05

Brecher on the strike:
http://libcom.org/history/toledo-auto-lite-strike-1934-jeremy-brecher

Steven.
Jan 16 2014 12:08

Great stuff doing all these photo galleries JC!

Juan Conatz
Jan 18 2014 06:15

No problem, that's how I spent my lonely Christmas. cry

Steven.
Jan 18 2014 11:41
Juan Conatz wrote:
No problem, that's how I spent my lonely Christmas. cry

spending time with family is a bourgeois distraction