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Title: Santa Knows When You Are Naughty to Janitors!!
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
Collection: Organizing Los Angeles Workers, 1980-Present
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: In order to put pressure on building owners to improve conditions janitors would try to publicly embarrass them by staging shows in front of their buildings. In this instance "Santa" brought coal to owners who paid starvation wages and passed out leaflets to raise awareness in the community.
Type: image
Format: JPG image
Identifier: irle_1940_029
Language: English
eng
Subject: Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Labor union locals--California--Los Angeles
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Provenance: United Service Workers West (USWW), Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Location: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections

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