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Description:: Works Progress Administration strike leaders gathered together in a dusty field
Date:: [March 4, 1938?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Workers for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant participating in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
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.”
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A worker for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant participating in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Date:: [circa October 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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