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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:: Woman talks to a group of teenagers skipping school outside a drugstore in downtown Los Angeles. The truancy problem prompted the 10th District Congress of Parents and Teachers to recommend an expansion of the truancy detail, which would include increasing personnel in outlying portions of the district as well as on beaches
Date:: March 1946
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd gathers to hear strike organizers speak during the Douglas Aircraft strike.
Date:: February 1937
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Douglas Aircraft Corporation workers on strike put ballots into box.
Date:: February 1937
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Strike organizers address crowd during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike.
Date:: February 1937
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Douglas Aircraft Corporation workers on strike put ballots into box.
Date:: February 1937
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Robert Telles, age 19, reunites with family members Betty Telles and Josie Telles in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following his acquittal in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.
Date:: Oct 1944
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Date:: Oct 1944
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photographed left to right are J. Edward Bromberg, Lupe Leyvas, and Dooley Wilson.
Date:: ca. 1943
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeleans raise funds for flood victims in Sonora, Mexico on Olvera Street in Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date:: 1949
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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