Worker's Alliance member Oscar Fuss addresses a crowd of relief workers protesting a payout bill outside the State Capitol, Sacramento, February 23, 1940

Item Overview

Title

Worker's Alliance member Oscar Fuss addresses a crowd of relief workers protesting a payout bill outside the State Capitol, Sacramento, February 23, 1940

Date Created

February 23, 1940

Date

1940-02-23

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Demonstration of relief workers outside the State Capitol showing their opposition to a bill that would provide relief workers with payouts rather than jobs. It was estimated that over half the crowd was from Los Angeles. Oscar Fuss of the Los Angeles Worker's Alliance is addressing the crowd saying, "We have come up here in our old broken-down jalopies to see that that dirty, lousy, stinking relief bill is stopped. Throw it into the sewer, where it belongs.”

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Unemployment - SRA - Demonstration against dole cuts in front of State Co-op.; Oscar Fuss, addressing crowd
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [unreadable]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Workers Alliance of America
California State Capitol (Sacramento, Calif.)
Fuss, Oscar
California. State Relief Administration

Location

Sacramento (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Demonstrations--California--Sacramento
Labor unions--California--Sacramento
Economy
Legislation--California--Sacramento
Landmarks
Activism