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CONUS Archive
95150
PROTEST FOR HIGHER WAGES (7/23/1992)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
VO/NAT
7/23/1992
23:59
1:39
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF PROTESTERS FLOODING ONTO FREEWAY, ARREST SHOTS, POLICE IN RIOT GEAR, CONFRONTATION, MAN WITH BLOODY HEAD, COPS LEADING AWAY PROTESTERS, AERIALS OF SCENE
SEVERAL DOZEN HISPANIC DRY WALLERS DEMANDING HIGHER WAGES AND UNION REPRESENTATION WERE ARRESTED TODAY AFTER CREATING A DISTURBANCE IN HOLLYWOOD AND ON THE NEARBY HOLLYWOOD (101) FREEWAY. DOZENS OF HELMETED, BATON WIELDING OFFICERS FROM THE L-A POLICE DEPARTMENT WERE DISPATCHED TO QUELL THE DISTURBANCE THAT BEGAN BEFORE THE NOON HOUR NEAR THE GOWER STREET OFF RAMP. MANY OF THE DEMONSTRATORS WERE DETAINED ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD AS THE DEMONSTRATION BEGAN TO BREAK UP AFTER NOON. THE MEN WERE THEN HERDED ON TO A POLICE BUS FOR BOOKING. DURING THE PROTEST, THE DRY WALLERS YELLED IN SPANISH THAT "WE WANT A UNION" AND "WE WANT FOOD FOR OUR CHILDREN." A FEW EVEN VENTURED ON TO THE HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY AT HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD WHERE TRAFFIC SLOWED TO A CRAWL. THEY WANDERED IN AND OUT OF THE VEHICLES AND POLICE PURSUED THEM. THIRTY TO FORTY DRY WALLERS WERE DETAINED, SOME CAME FROM AS FAR AWAY AS ORANGE COUNTY. 4,000 DRY WALLERS HAVE STRUCK THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR SEVEN WEEKS, PROTESTING WHAT THEY SAY ARE THE AVERAGE $300 THAT THEY MAKE FOR A 60-HOUR WEEK, A PAY RATE THEY CLAIM HAS REMAINED THE SAME FOR 10 YEARS.
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Keywords

DISORDERLY CONDUCT
DEMONSTRATION
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