A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.

Hollywood Black Friday

1945 labor strike and riot in Burbank, California

Hollywood Black Friday, or Hollywood Bloody Friday, is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945. On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a…