July 4, 1930

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/07/july-4-1930/




Delegates at a National Conference of the Unemployed in Chicago form the Unemployed Councils. The Councils were instrumental in resisting evictions of unemployed workers and in organizing unemployed strikes to pressure state and local governments to expand relief aid and relief work during the Great Depression.

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[monmouth3]

1. I notice in photos like this, never any women. They don't like coffee and doughnuts? They didn't

have jobs?

[jwirr]

2. I was thinking the same thing. They may have been home with the children. It is too bad that we did

not record more of the woman's side of this because they surely were active. I live in a high-rise with a woman who protested and worked for the union up on the iron range during that time. She did not tell many stories but was proud to have been a part of it.


Steve was this a socialist store they were standing in front of? There is a similar photo at the Lake County Historical Society in Two Harbors MN and underneath the sign for the free coffee and donuts it was identified ad a socialist business.