AAK-0626

Protesters march up Market street demanding Congress to repeal the 130 hour rule

1939-07-14

Still image

1 photographic print : b&w. ; 14 x 31 cm. (5 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)

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Folder: S.F. Depression-W.P.A.
Newscopy: "San Francisco relief clients took this means of voicing their displeasure over congressional action in substituting a security wage calling for 130 hours of work a month for the earlier prevailing wage. Posters held aloft during the march up Market st. proclaimed the WPA workers' stand."
Newscopy: "THEY MARCHED FOR FOOD 25 years ago today, on a different kind of Christmas. Young, old, even an expectant mother begged for more relief during this scene from the Great Depression. The nation seemed near disaster on Dec. 25, 1933; there was no real recovery until after this march in 1939. It was a year when St. Nick took a holiday. Dec. 25 1958."
Negative #6980

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