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
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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
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Workers Alliance of America
California State Capitol (Sacramento, Calif.)
Fuss, Oscar
California. State Relief Administration - Location
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Demonstrations--California--Sacramento
Labor unions--California--Sacramento
Economy
Legislation--California--Sacramento
Landmarks
Activism
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
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- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .