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Description:: Start of journey of Southern California Townsend club members to Chicago for national convention. Clubs named after Dr. Francis Townsend to advocate for his old age pension plans, a precursor to Social Security. West was western divisional director of Townsend club; Litchenfels, state area officer; Highley, President of Los Angeles club; Biddlecom, member of national advisory board. Wives of Bliss and Highley also present.
Date:: [October 21, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Bonus marchers sign up to march northward to San Francisco, and then continue on to Washington D.C. The Bonus Army consisted of World War I veterans and their families who pursued immediate payment of their service certificates.
Date:: [circa May 26, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The man in the photograph is probably an official involved in the mediation efftorts to avert a strike of Pacific Electric Railway workers
Date:: [August-November, 1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The man in the photograph is probably an official involved in the mediation efftorts to avert a strike of Pacific Electric Railway workers
Date:: [August-November, 1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The man in the photograph is probably an official involved in the mediation efftorts to avert a strike of Pacific Electric Railway workers
Date:: [August-November, 1937?]
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

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

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