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Title: WPA workers strike
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Bringing humor into the strike of 4000 WPA workers on the Slauson Avenue storm drain project. Workers are gathered around the "grave" of a dummy representing a WPA worker who died of starvation while waiting for his relief check, Jan. 27, 1936.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028114
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4995-W.P.A. strike
CARL0000031505
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10309
Subject: United States.--Works Progress Administration
Public works--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--Local officials and employees--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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