M HKA Ensembles

Photography, 16.5 x 21.5 cm.

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp.

Vintage ’37 SS California Maritime Labor Strikers Photo [as indicated on PayPal document], black-and-white photograph, 1937, [“Sit-down strike aboard a Luxury liner […]. The radio operators, members of a C.I.O. Union, have walked-out and the seamen are sitting-down in sympathy” [as indicated on backside of photograph], 16.5 x 21.5 cm. Purchased by Allan Sekula through eBay on March 13, 2009.

On the backside of the photograph:

Sit-downing de luxe

NEW YORK...Stretched out in deck chairs and sunning themselves beneath a warm april sun, these seamen, members of the crew of the S.S California, find that a sit-down strike aboard a Luxury liner, is not to be tossed over one's  shoulder. The radio operators, members of a C.I.O. Union, have walked-out and the seamen are sitting-down in sympathy

(B-4-15-37)--9-20 see story