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

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
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Activism
Legislation--California--Sacramento
Labor unions--California--Sacramento
Landmarks
Economy
Demonstrations--California--Sacramento
Names: Workers Alliance of America
California. State Relief Administration
Fuss, Oscar
California State Capitol (Sacramento, Calif.)
Location: Sacramento (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: 22848
uclamss_1387_22848-00
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002802wt
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