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Title
Members of the Worker's Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued
February 27, 1940
1940-02-27
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Gathering 1st & Soto demanding [checks???]
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Unemployment - SRA - Gathering of people at 1st and Soto St., demanding checks; Walter Chambers with protesting workers; Picketing SRA at 22nd and San Pedro Sts.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00280291
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Pickets--California--Los Angeles
Economy
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Labor unions
Activism
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Government
Workers Alliance of America
California. State Relief Administration
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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