Scrapbooks about Los Angeles and the Hollywood Strike, 1945-1947.

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Scrapbooks about Los Angeles and the Hollywood Strike, 1945-1947.

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Collection consists of scrapbooks, including clippings, photographs, a book, and ephemera concerning the Hollywood Studio Strike, 1946-47, compiled by H.K. Sorrell, labor union representative and president of the Conference of Studio Unions. Includes material relating to the hearings on the strike conducted in Los Angeles by the Special Subcommittee of the US House of Representatives' Committee on Education and Labor, and Gene Price's book, The story of the Hollywood film strike in cartoons.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Conference of Studio Unions.

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History The 1940s was a period of tumult in the Hollywood labor movement. It came to a head during the Hollywood Studio Strike of 1945-1946, the last in a series of strikes involving the major studios, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU). It pitted the rank-and-file labor federation, the CSU, led by the militant organizer Herb Sorrell, against IATSE, which, following year...

Sorrell, Herbert Knott, 1897-1974.

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The Hollywood studio strike began on Mar. 12, 1945 when the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), consisting of nine unions and nearly ten thousand workers led by Herbert Sorrell, went on strike to protest the studios' delay in granting a contract renewal for interior decorators despite opposition from the larger, more established International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators of the United States and Canada (IATSE). In early Oct. 1945, CSU concentrated its picket...