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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
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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" which 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
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers (center, glasses) addressing a crowd of Worker's Alliance members protesting Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers (center, glasses) addressing a crowd of Worker's Alliance members protesting 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:: State Relief Administration employee George R. Lane who was discharged by Los Angeles S.R.A. assistant director Katherine Kilbourne for signing a letter to the Legislature (along with five other employees) criticizing certain practices of the S.R.A. Lane was later reinstated by S.R.A. director Walter Chambers.
Date:: February 11, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Committee chairman Senator John J. Phillips (center) 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

Description:: Committee chairman Senator John J. Phillips (center) 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

Description:: Arial view of pickets from the Workers Alliance outside the State Building during the State Relief Administration hearings. The Workers Alliance was protesting a 40% cut to relief checks, which was one of the topics at the hearing. The hearing was led by an appointed committee of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen
Date:: March 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pickets from the Workers Alliance outside the State Building during the State Relief Administration hearings. The Workers Alliance was protesting a 40% cut to relief checks, which was one of the topics at the hearing. The hearing was led by an appointed committee of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen
Date:: March 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 50 pickets from the Municipal Workers of America relief workers union outside the State Building protesting a 40% cut to relief checks and layoffs of S.R.A. personnel. The pickets marched outside the State Building with the belief that Governor Olson was inside, he was not.
Date:: March 15, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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