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Pickets from the Municipal Workers of America outside the State Building, Los Angeles, March 15, 1940

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Title: Pickets from the Municipal Workers of America outside the State Building, Los Angeles, March 15, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: March 15, 1940
1940-03-15
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.
50 pickets from the Municipal Workers of America relief workers union outside the State Building protesting a 40% cut to relief checks and layoffs of S.R.A. personnel. The pickets marched outside the State Building with the belief that Governor Olson was inside, he was not.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: SRA Investigation - LA March 1940; Phillips, John - Sen.; Daley, Jeanette; Picketing State Bldg. during hearing
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Broadway - LA - Picketing Cut State Bldg3-15-40
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0028057f
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pickets--California--Los Angeles
Economy
Dismissal of employees--California--Los Angeles
Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Landmarks
Activism
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Workers Alliance of America
California. State Relief Administration
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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