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East Los Angeles S.R.A director, Samuel J. Ayeroff, at a hearing where he is accused of being a member of the Young Communist League, Feb. 5, 1940

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East Los Angeles State Relief Administration (S.R.A.) director, Samuel J. Ayeroff at hearings for charges of Communist activity against several members of the L.A. County S.R.A. Ayeroff was named as an active member of the Young Communist League by one of its former organizers, George Bertholon. 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
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Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
East Los Angeles S.R.A director, Samuel J. Ayeroff, at a hearing where he is accused of being a member of the Young Communist League, Feb. 5, 1940

East Los Angeles S.R.A director, Samuel J. Ayeroff, at a hearing where he is accused of being a member of the Young Communist League, Feb. 5, 1940

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East Los Angeles State Relief Administration (S.R.A.) director, Samuel J. Ayeroff (center) at hearings for charges of Communist activity against several members of the L.A. County S.R.A. Ayeroff was named as an active member of the Young Communist League by one of its former organizers, George Bertholon. 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. One of the men with Ayeroff in this photo may be his attorney, A.L. Wirin
Date:
February 5, 1940
Resource Type:
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Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
East Los Angeles S.R.A director, Samuel J. Ayeroff, at a hearing where he is accused of being a member of the Young Communist League, Feb. 5, 1940

Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

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Children getting something to drink inside the State Relief Administration's Vermont District office, a crowd of older children and adults wait in the background. Outside the office, picketers had gathered to protest a, seemingly arbitrary, 40% reduction in the checks paid to unemployed relief cases taken care of by the S.R.A.
Date:
February 28, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Description:
Children getting something to drink inside the State Relief Administration's Vermont District office, a crowd of older children and adults wait in the background. Outside the office, picketers had gathered to protest a, seemingly arbitrary, 40% reduction in the checks paid to unemployed relief cases taken care of by the S.R.A.
Date:
February 28, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

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Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the 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. 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:
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Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the 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. 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
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the 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. 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
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Assemblymen Jack Tenney and Sam Yorty at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940

Description:
Assemblymen Jack Tenney (left) and Sam Yorty at the hearings for charges of Communist activity in the Los Angeles County State Relief Administration (S.R.A.). Both were on the "little Dies committee" which questioned various members of the S.R.A. 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
Assemblymen Jack Tenney and Sam Yorty at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940

Assemblyman Sam Yorty, chairman of the "little Dies committee" at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940

Description:
Assemblyman Sam Yorty, chairman of the "little Dies committee" which questioned members of the Los Angeles County 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
Assemblyman Sam Yorty, chairman of the "little Dies committee" at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940