Vintage Political Protests & Activists Photo Gallery

The power of protest is a timeless expression of objection, disapproval and dissent. SuperStock's Vintage Political Protests & Activists Photo Gallery captures the spirit of these historic moments in time. Our collection of images showcases the passion and commitment of those who have taken a stand against injustice and inequali...Read more

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016), directed by RAOUL PECK.

San Francisco, California: 1970 An anti Vietnam War peace march up Post Street.

Washington, D.C., April 22, 1971 Viet Nam veterans, who are opposed to the war in Viet Nam, demonstrate on the steps of the Supreme Court Building.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Half-Length Portrait during Press Conference, Dick DeMarsico, New York World-Telegram & Sun Photo Collection, June 1964

Back To Work -- And Now Too Many Dockers -- Dockers back to work at the Royal Albert Docks to-day.Forty-four Thousand dock strikers reported for duty today - but there was not work for all of them. At London; Southampton, Merseyside, Birkenhead and Hull all the men reported for work. There was a full resumption of work except at London, where a National Dock Labour Board spokesman said that there was a "surplus of labour" all over the docks. Of the 26,000 men who lied up outside the dock gates more than 2,000 found themselves without jobs when they got to the call stands. At the Royal Group about 1,050 men found themselves unemployed - about one-fifth of the pool strength. November 1, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Pictures).

London Dock Strike -- Sam Mott, Chairman of yesterday's mass meeting of five thousand dockers addressing the men in Victoria Park, Bethnal Green. London.July 12, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

In glorious sunshine, with the temperature in the 80s, thousands of holiday makers packed London again to-day to see the Coronation sights. It was the third day of the London invasion. And it was a day of sports clothes for the men and colourful summer dresses for the women.The crowds flocked to the Coronation route. The Queen is at windsor, but thousands still gathered outside Buckingham place. They overflowed the pavements in the Mall and walked sometimes five abreast, in the road. May 25, 1953. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).

Bank Rate Soars - Brokers rush from the stock exchange after the Bank Rate was raised to 5½ percent today, February 16 - the highest it has been since 1931. The bank rate was raised from 3 to 3½ percent on January 27, 1955; then raised to 4½ percent on February 24 1955. It was now been raised from 4½ percent. February 23, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Premier Leaves For Rome - Unemployed stages a demonstration among the cheering crowds at Victoria station to-day as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, the Foreign secretary, left on the first stage of their journey to Rome for talks with Mussolini,Demonstrator outside Victoria with the famous black coffin and banner "Appease the Unemployed, not Mussolini". January 10, 1939. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Mr. F.C. Millin wrote: "A number of ratepayers have approached me. Their intention was to present a petition against this, but they have authorised me to write this letter on their behalf."Sir Colin Stephen's telegram read: "Desire protest on behalf estate Edward Knox against relaxation of flat restrictions". September 10, 1935. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).

The most sensational pictures of the war, this series of photographs just reaching US from America shows the almost incredible brutality of Germans in Poland. They are the first pictures ever to show the working of Nazi justice in the ravaged land. Violent German protests were raised to have the pictures stopped when it was learned that they had been smuggled through to America, and the successful agency issuing them appended a request that no credit should be mentioned. June 5, 1941. (Photo by

Wendy - Protesting - Is Led Away -- Police Stop Meeting Demanding Return Of 'Stone' -- protesting strongly, Miss Wendy Wood, 57-year-old leader of the Scottish Patriots' Leagna is lead away by Police after they had stopped her form speaking at a meeting in Trafalgar Square to demand the return of the stone of Destiny - the Coronation stone to Scotland. A big crowd of Scots, in London for the England V Scotland international football match at Wembley, gathered for the meeting, banned by the olice as they had not been given 48 hours notice of it. April 14, 1951.

Striking Canadian Seamen march along the Embankment to Trafalgar Square.July 17, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).

Picketing Nato Opening - ***** parade in front of the Parliament building ***** afternoon protesting the North Atlantic peace pact ***** Some pickets shouted, "Yanaks Go Home" and "We ***** Want War". September 15, 1951. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Palestine Protest March In London --The head of the procession matching along commercial road, with Thomas Gould (third from right), the only Jewish V.C. of this war and a former Petty Officer in submarines of the Royal Navy. A Palestine protest march ***** by the Zionist Federation tool place this afternoon (Sunday) when members of the Federation marched along Commercial road for a demonstration in Trafalgar Square where a deputation will be sent ***** No. 10., Downing Street. July 07, 1946.

Kids Join Mom On Picket Line -- Pretty Mrs. Gery LaBaugh, 27, is joined by her children as she walks in picket line fore telephone exchange here. April 13, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Meat Ration Protest...... Miss Olive D'Oyle a 38yr old Teddington butcher carried a paper mache 'joint' in a car board coffin en route for speakers corner in Hyde Park where she led a meat ration protest meeting. February 26, 1951. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).

The Riots in Belfast -- ***** street, Falls Road, one of the many thoroughfares in this ***** where the roads were torn up to obstruct the armoured *****. November 21, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

Dockers Mass Meeting in Trafalgar Square -- A general view of the strikers listening to speakers in Trafalgar Square this afternoon (Sunday).Thousands of striking London dock workers marched seven miles from dockland to Trafalgar Square this afternoon (Sunday) for a mass meeting. Starting from Beckton Road, Canning Town, they marched by way of East India Dock Road, Commercial Road, Tower Hill, and along the Thames Embankment, being joined at various points by other contingents. July 17, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

On Their Way To School -- Students returned to classes at Southern High School today, accompanied by ministers and parents. Heavy details of police patrolled the area, scene of an angry demonstration Friday by a crowd of several hundred whites protesting integrated classes. A police cruiser, equipped with loud speakers (background, across street) warned today against unlawful assembly. October 04, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

The Strike Goes On -- London Dockers at a meeting in Victoria Park, East London, today October 12, raise their hands to vote for the continuation of their nine-day-old strike. there are 26,000 men out. October 12, 1954. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

"Babs Hutton" Take off By Woolworth Pickets -- Woolworth warehouse employees and members of local 65, wholesale and warehouse union, picket the Woolworth Building in New York City, June 30, demanding re-signing of the union contract. The girl in evening gown is doing a takeoff on heiress "Babs" and men in striped, trousers and frock coats picket the pickets. July 22, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Seek release of hunger strikers, Section of the crowd which demonstrated yesterday as a protest against detention of Max Thomas and Horace Ratliff. July 12, 1941.

Danes Demonstrate Against France -- A general view of the crowd in the Gronttorvet, in the centre of Copenhagen, during the anti-Franco demonstration on April 15.Two hundred thousand people marched through the streets of Copenhagen on April 15 in a demonstration sponsored by the Danish Community Party, urging the Government to break off diplomatic relations with the Franco regime in Spain. April 30, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Railway men vote no ***** after tomorrow at meeting today. December 19, 1947.

Extensive mass meetings of the Party Ra'jat Pasoendan took place at Buitenzorg, Bandoeng, and Batavia during the month of May. Aim of these meetings was to stand up for the position of the Soenda-lands as a separate State in the federal connection with the prospective United States of Indonesia. Various speakers advocated with ardour, the establishment of a separate State of Pasoendan and opposed the remaining of Soenda-lands under the Government of the Republic. Members of the General Committee leading the march. Some of the leaders of thought and political progress in Indonesia marching to a meeting to discuss the formation of the Republic. December 20, 1950. (Photo by Regerings Voorlichtings Dienst).

British Housewives Protest At Meat RationA deputation of British housewives arriving at the House of Commons today to protest to members of Parliament about the meagre meat ration of 8d per head per week. They come by lorry bearing "figureheads" showing comparisons in the meat rations "then and now" and carried placards, some in rhyme, demonstrating against the recent meat ration cuts. February 07, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.).

A traffic block caused by the crowd watching the hunger marchers demonstrating in Trafalgar Square. December 12, 1932.

Police In Action As Dockers' Trail Ends -- A policeman uses his hands to urge a man away from the scene as foot and mounted police cleared dockers who massed near the old Bailey, London, to-day (Tuesday) when the trail of seven dockers - alleged to incite dockers to strike illegally - neared its end.Amid shouting, jeering and some scuffling, men who had gathered near the Old Bailey were driven by the police into side streets and roads away from the building. April 17, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Back To Work On Monday -- The show of hands for "back to work" at the meeting today.By an overwhelming majority on a show of hands, London dockworkers, meeting this morning in Victoria Park, Bethnal Green, decided to return to work on Monday. July 22, 1949. (Photo by Fox Photos).

New Delhi Riots -- Some of the demonstrators including a number of women and small children are seen waving their arms, shouting slogans and carrying banners in a main street in New Delhi.The old city of Delhi was completely cordoned off during the recent disturbances which broke out. Demonstrators wrecked a number of trucks, turned them over and then set fire to them. The trouble started when 10,000 troops were Victory Parading before lord Wavell in New Delhi. When the rioting broke out, a curfew was imposed and meeting between more than five persons was banned. March 27, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Phone Picket Seized -- Russell Bridge, President of Local 65, Association of Communications and equipment worker is seized by police after a picket line argument as installers and maintenance men renewed picketing of some New Jersey phone exchange because of a still unsettled dispute. June 04, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Misc - Strikes - General - 1989 & Prior. April 12, 1943.

Violence At West Hartford Strike -- Police and strikers tangle as violence of breaks out at the Pratt-Whitney aircraft plant at West Hartford, Conn., 13. The disturbance started when persons described by company spokesmen.As workers sought to enter the plant by walking through picket lines. May 31, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

'Nazis' Strut Through Scarborough -- On the eve of the Socialist Party conference, steel-helmeted 'Nazi Storm Troopers' jack-boot their way through Scarborough, Yorkshire to-day (Sunday) in a procession arranged by the West Yorkshire Peace Organization as a 'welcome' ***** delegates.Some 200 women ***** children headed the procession, ***** which the black cross of the ***** regime mingled with banners ***** the names of notorious ***** camps. One banner ***** 'Don't arm the Nazis.' September 26, 1954. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Police and Pickets Clash -- Members of Canadian Seamen's Union Scuffle with police in attempt to board the SS Riverside here this morning in vain effort to keep Seafarers' International Union men from boarding. SIU members climbed rope ladders seaward side, pulled up gangplank, and readied ship for sailing. May 12, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

***** to unload fruit from the Murada had been refused, Brisbane watersiders marched to ***** unloaded her cargo. Women marched with them and helped in the work. May 12, 1946.

Deputies Salute Flag As Film Demonstrators March -- Deputy sheriffs salute the flag being carried at the head of a column of Labor demonstrators who marches nine times around Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio today before disbanding. The scene is the same as that where a bloody clash between the police officers and strikers occurred yesterday. October 2, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

The Riots in Belfast -- ***** many caged armoured cars used to dispel the *****. November 21, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

He Leads 'Work On' Move -- Bob Crosbie, 46 (in buttoned raincoat, centre), reports for work at the Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, after again persuading his followers at the dock not to strike. Extra police had been drafted to the Gladstone Dock to hold back more than 1,000 strikers who tried to block the dock rates. October 20, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Scuffle On The Picket Line -- Police, AFL unionists and spectators scuffle in front of Hasting's store here today in first abortive violence in the AFL protest walkout. Note expression on bus driver (lower right center) as police move in to quell disturbance. December 3, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Auto Production At Willow Run Delayed: Graham-Paige Motors Corp. Employees picket the Auto plant today demanding assurance that seniority rights be protected when the transfer of operations to Willow Run is completed. The Bomber plant has been leased for production of the Frazer and Kaiser automobiles. November 26, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Northern Ireland - Riots & Demonstrations in 1930. November 21, 1932. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

"Down With Franco Spain" - Part of an estimated 50 pickets mill about near 515 Madison Avenue, New York, May 15, as demonstrators picket the Spanish Consulated which occupies the 31st floor of the building. The demonstration was staged in protest against seizure of several hundred prisoners by the Spanish government from metal works and smelters who staged "Food Strike" in Bilbao some weeks ago, according to Milton Wolff, commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. May 17, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Violence Flares At SKF Plant -- Police Remove a picket today at the strike-bound SKF plant here after a scuffle which occurred when pickets attempted to keep automobiles carrying office workers from crossing their lines. October 23, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Pickets Rip Wiring From Auto -- While police seek to restrain thee, pickets at one of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio gates halt an automobile attempting to enter the lot and rip out the ignition wires yesterday. September 28, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Striker Shouts Against Settlement - A worker of the Philadelphia Transportation company shouts against settling the transit strike here early today during a mass meeting of strikers after negotiators had reached agreement in the ten-day strike. Other strikers applaud or shout during the stormy session. February 20, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Engineers who marched to Chamber of Manufactures. March 12, 1947.

Misc - Strikes - General - 1989 & Prior. December 19, 1947.

London Dock Strike -- One against many.....Jimmy Serutton, the only speaker to ask for a return to work; "I think the time has come for common sense". And there were shouts of "Never". July 12, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

The Belfast Riots -- Troops on guard with fixed bayonets in York Street - the seat of the trouble - in Belfast today, July 14.Troops were called out in Belfast last night, July 13, when rioting between unionists and Nationalists, high began on Friday, flared up again. July 14, 1935. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

***** -- This was London going home last night ***** the second day of the unofficial bus strike. Policemen and policewomen held hands to control the great rush-hour crowds that surged to the Tube stations because nearly a third of London's peak-hour buses were off the streets. This picture was taken at Oxford circus. October 26, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Down Pickets Again Get Heave - Ho - Deputy Sheriffs who yesterday had to drag sitting pickets away from the main entrance to Warner Bros., Studio do the job all over again this morning as strikers adopt same tactics. November 03, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Picket Faints During Movie Strike -- The Excitement at Warner Bros. studio early today, when pickets and Non-strikers fought another battle at the studio gate, proved too much for this woman picket. She fell over in a faint and was taken inside the studio for first aid. October 8, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

House Wives Launch Meat PetitionThe group at work this afternoon addressing 50,000 envelopes enclosing petition forms to British Housewives. Each form has a space for 60 signatures.Eight Housewives, - and two men, - met in a Bayswater room today to launch a petition to flood the government with more than 3,000,000 protests against meat rationing and controls. February 18, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.).

Dockers Clash The Police At Dock Strike Today -- During the closing stages of the trial of the London and Liverpool dockers at the Old Bailey this afternoon a number of London dockers who have staged a strike in protest against the arrest and trial, gathered outside. They clashed with a force of City of London police and a number of arrests were made. April 17, 1951. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

4 Killed, 83 Hurt, As Steel Strikers Battle Chicago Police -- Scene in front of the Republic Steel Company here as police put to route 1,000 C.I.O. strikers marching on the company's South Chicago Plant May 30. Note the two men in the foreground who were felled. The man wearing a white shirt and a grey hat went down just after this picture was taken. A policeman in the center background is yanking out his revolver. May 31, 1937. (Photo by Wide World Photos).

Trades - Wharf Labourers. James Dark ***** from SS Nardana Pyrmont. December 12, 1938.

New York Teamsters Refuse To Return To Work -- Members of Local 807, International Brotherhood of teamsters (AFL), raise their hands in an attempt to be heard during a session at Manhattan Center in New York, September 12, at which the local refused to return to their trucks but authorized their president to center negotiations at Mayor William O'Dwyers office. December 09, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The Arm Of The Law.... -- Weighs down on the head of a demonstrator who got a little too excited outside the old Bailey court, London April 17. He was one of a great crowd, mostly dockers, which messed outside the court for what was expected to be the last day of the trail of the seven dockers accused of the inciting strikes. The jury disagreed on the first count, and had not at the time. The court rose today considered the second. The hearing will continue tomorrow. April 17, 1951. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The Riots in Belfast -- ***** armed with rifles and revolvers patrolling a troubled ***** area. November 21, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

Dockers Stay Out - Government Moves In -- A forest of hands proclaims the intention of London dockers to stay out, in defiance of the Government's intention to declare a State of Emergency this morning July 11. They were voting at a mass meeting at Victoria Park Bethnal Green London, attended by about 5,000 dockers. The proclamation of emergency enables the Government to make emergency regulations to safeguard transport, food, water and other essential services. As the dockers' meeting ended, a member of the "Lock Out Committee" warned them to keep in close contact with the Committee, keeping themselves out of bother and trouble. July 11, 1949. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Crowd Hears President -- This crowd, estimated at 10,000, gathers in front of the Palace in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 21, to hear President Ramon Grau San Martin address the nation, during a general work stoppage in protest against increased living costs. January 22, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The Riots in Belfast -- After the melee at Templemore Avenue. The police capturing one of the offenders who fell during the chase. November 21, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

Great Mass Demonstration of Unemployment in Hyde Park, Oct. 27th: Thousands of hunger marchers from all parts of England arrived at Hyde Park to take part in the huge demonstration directed against the present administration of the means test.The marchers and their supporters were escorted to the Park by mounted and foot police, while strong forces of police were held in reserve.A woman speaker in Hyde Park addressing some of the unemployed. November 29, 1932. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Demonstrate Against World Bank Loan To Cuba -- A delegation of Cubans from Bauta, near Havana, display signs they carried in the Oct. 31 demonstration in Havana against a proposed World Bank loan to Cuba. Sign depicts Uncle Sam leading a goat labeled "$200,000,000 Loan" while a typical Cuban leads a cow labeled to represent the $400,000,000 the protesters say Cuba will pay in amortization of such a loan. The center figure is Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras telling Uncle Sam "You give me the goat and I'll give you the cow" -- which the demonstrators regard as a poor exchange. November 02, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

The Riots in Belfast -- The burning of a looted shop off York Street. November 21, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

Protest German Industrial Exhibit - Pickets parade past the entrance to the Museum of Science and Industry in Rockefeller Center, New York City, April 9, in protest to the opening there of the Military government German Industrial Exhibition. Pickets are representatives of the Joint Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism which contends that the show indicates a re-Nazifying of Germany. April 09, 1949. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Picket Bus Terminal -- As A picket line (left) formed early this morning at the Greyhound Bus Terminal here, a bus (right), coming into Washington from the North, discharges its passengers at the curb. Efforts to avert a walkout failed just before the midnight deadline. November 1, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Detroit Landladies Picket White House -- Seven landladies from Detroit carry placards along Pennsylvania avenue in front of the White House today, in their right against rent controls. Some of their signs read: "Oust rent control" and "Veterans want housing, not dictatorial rent control. " November 19, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Police Charge Pickets -- Police are shown charging scattering pickets when fighting broke out at the Univis Lens plant this morning when non-striking workers were escorted into the plant. July 30, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Mop work meetings. November 04, 1948.

Housewives Assoc. December 01, 1947.

Continuous Line of Pickets At Ford's Rouge Plant -- UAW - CIO strikers picker ford's Rouge plant in one continuous line this morning. Some 65,000 workers today began the second day of the walkout idling production at the Rouge and Lincoln plants. May 6, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Violence In Trolley Strike -- Police and pickets at the strike-bound Conestoga Transportation Co. clash today after pickets overturned an automobile in which four employees of the company attempted to cross their lines.Dynamite and bullets have become a way of life for the usually sleepy town of Henderson, North Carolina, ripped apart by six tragic months of strike warfare.Henderson is in revolution as desperate, violent and as real as any in the his story books. September 25, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Tramway men receiving then has for the lost week of work. October 28, 1946.

Misc - Strikes - General - 1989 & Prior. December 19, 1947.

The General Strike -- How thousands of people walked to walk in the City. A scene during the great strike, showing hundreds walking to work across one of London's main bridges. August 3, 1936.

Striker Jailed In New Studio Disorder -- One on some 50 pickets arrested today at technicolor studio during a new outbreak of violence in the jurisdictional dispute between rival AFL movie unions is carried to a patrol wagon by police who broke up lines of marching pickets.Striker Arrested. During a new outbreak of violence in the dispute between rival movie unions, one of the pickets is arrested and carried to a patrol Waggon. Police broke up lines of marching pickets. October 11, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Refinery Employees Walk Out -- Worker walk out of the Sinclair Refining Co., yesterday, joining other plant workers (foreground) in a walkout to enforce demands for a 30% wage increase. September 20, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Police Try To Remove Prone Pickets -- Police try to remove pickets at the New York Stock Exchange here today after the pickets stretched flat on the sidewalk before the 11 Wall street entrance to the Exchange in an outbreak of violence in the financial employees strike against the stock exchange and New York Curb exchange. March 30, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

What Does *****Youth of military age studies the news paper posters announcing. Conscription, in London today (Wed). May 22, 1939. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

Misc - Strikes - Gen. - 1950. October 19, 1950.

Dockers Hear 'Leader' On First Day of Emergency -- Crowd of London dockers listen to a speech by Albert Timothy, member of the unofficial 'lock out committee, at Royal.Victoria Dock to-day (Tuesday), first day of the State of Emergency regulations in the Port of London. More than 10,000 men are idle at the docks, and 112 ships are held up, owing to the refusal of the men to work the Canadian ships Beaverbrae and Argomont, which have been involved in a Canadian seamen strike. July 12, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Police Use Night Sticks on Pickets -- Police officers wield night sticks on pickets at Republic Studio today to open a path to the studio gates in a new outburst of violence in the Hollywood movie strike. One picket lies on the pavement. October 3, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Police Officer Blocks Clubbing -- Oakland police officer grass club of special officer and cuts off attempt of special officer to swing his club as AFL unionists mass at downtown store in protest walk out here today. December 3, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Misc. January 01, 1954. (Photo by Look Magazine).

Unemployed "Lie-Down" Demonstration In Oxford-Street -- The unemployed during their "lie-down" demonstration in oxford-street this afternoon. Jan. 14. Unemployed demonstrators have been staging various "scenes" to draw attention to their claims for winter relief shortly before Christmas a number of men lay down in the snow at oxford-circus. Another exploit was to order tea aft the Ritz Hotel. (Jan-17), a large number of unemployed lay down on their backs in oxford-street in the heavy rain, while women paraded the pavements with posters. January 17, 1939. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Non-Strikers Crash Picket Line -- This brief flurry of action broke out at Columbia Studio today as several non-strikers attempted to crash the massed picket line posted by the striking Conference of studio unions. Police began arresting the pickets shortly afterwards. November 15, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Scuffle: Police scuffle with pickets before offices of the American Marsh Pump Co., here yesterday. Pickets had set up a blockade to prevent office workers form entering the strikebound plant. July 23, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Their Mite For Mexico -- Two Indian women of Mexico, one Barefoot, bring their gifts-chickens-to donate to their country to help pay off the Government debt contracted with the expropriation of the $400,000,000 foreign-owned oil industry of Mexico. These were among thousands Mexican women in a donation parade at Mexico city. The sign reads: "Live to be free, or die to cease being slaves", and is signed--"We the women". April 14, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Black-Garbed Woman in Cairo's Anti-British Demonstration:Egyptian women in their traditional black dress, led the parade of women and girls through the Streets of Cairo during the great Anti-British demonstration in which, it is said, about a million Egyptians participated. The business life of this City was brought to a standstill by the demonstration. November 15, 1951.

Marchers Leave For Home - Clyde Side marchers before leaving St. Pancras station for Claggow this morning. November 05, 1932. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

Movie Striker Protests Against Arrest -- A striker tells police what he thinks of being arrested at RKO studio today after he and other pickets refused to heed a court injunction. Limiting the number of pickets at move studio entrances. In background are workers waiting for police to Disband the picket line before entering the lot. October 24, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Housewives Association - Organisation. November 07, 1946.

Portuguese Demonstrate for Goa -- Demonstrators in Oporto, Portugal, March to the city's statue of Henry the navigator August 14, the nigh before the scheduled March on Portugese Goa by "Liberators" from India. In Portugese Churches, prayers were offered "that Goa may be safeguarded for western civilization and the Western Faith". August 19, 1954. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Postal Strike in Bombay -- Postal employees on strike, kept in line and shepherded by policemen, who are seen carrying umbrellas, marching through a street in Bombay with placards proclaiming their demands, on July 15.Three hundred strikes arising out of industrial disputes have taken place in Bombay this year. Ten strikes are at present in progress, including the stoppage of postal and telegraph workers, and two more are pending.The postal workers struck on July 11 seeking an increase in wages of about 20%, and the strike is still in progress. July 24, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The Belfast Riots; Troops Called Out -- A police truck passing under the welcoming sign of the 12th July Orange Day arch in Belfast today, July 14.Troops were called out in Belfast last night, July 13, when rioting between Unionists and Nationalists, which began on Friday, flared up again. Today, July 14, the city was still patrolled by a thousand soldiers and policemen, and armoured cars, and every precaution is being made, for two people were killed and 60 injured in the previous night's riots. July 14, 1935. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Ford Employees Take Strike Vote : Employees of the Ford Motor Co. Here, shown depositing ballots today, the last of the strike votes in the automobile industry's big three over a 30 per cent wage rate increase demand. Voters are members of the United Auto Workers Union (CIO). November 7, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Housewives Association - Organisation. November 07, 1946.

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