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Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 22nd and San Pedro Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (Left to Right) Assemblymen Lee T. Bashore, Jack B. Tenney, Sam Yorty, Seth Millington, and Harrison W. Call, the "little Dies committee" who questioned members of the Los Angeles Country State Relief Administration (S.R.A.) on charges of Communist activity. The hearings lasted only one day and ended with a recommendation that action be taken against some of the witnesses for perjury, but no one was immediately fired.
Date:: February 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Meeting of a joint legislative committee composed of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen, which was appointed to investigate policies and practices of the State Relief Administration. Senator John J. Phillips (back 4th from left) was elected chairman and Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley (back 3rd from left) was elected vice-chairman. Some topics discussed at the hearing included S.R.A. funding of crossing guards, the transfer of S.R.A. headquarters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, how the S.R.A. leases quarters, and financial conditions, including the controversial 40% cut of relief checks. This last point drew picketers from the Workers Alliance, who marched outside the State Building during the committee’s S.R.A. hearings.
Date:: March 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Former organizer for the Young Communist League, George Bertholon, at hearings for charges of Communist activity in the Los Angeles County State Relief Administration (S.R.A.). On the witness stand, Bertholon accused several people of Communist activity. The hearings lasted only one day and ended with a recommendation that action be taken against some of the witnesses for perjury, but no one was immediately fired.
Date:: February 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Joseph Ayeroff, former chairman of the Los Angeles County Young Democrats (i.e. the Young Democratic Club) and brother of East L.A. State Relief Administration director Samuel Ayeroff, at hearings for charges of Communist activity against several members of the L.A. County S.R.A. Joseph Ayeroff was accused of Communist activity by George Bertholon, former organizer of the Young Communist League. The hearings lasted only one day and ended with a recommendation that action be taken against some of the witnesses (including Ayeroff) for perjury, but no one was immediately fired.
Date:: February 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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