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Friday, September 2, 2011

LABOR DAY


Demonstrators in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Strike, 1937 (Time Inc.)
Carl Mydans: Demonstrators in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Strike, 1937 (Time Inc.)

WPA picketers protesting against nationwide layoffs and reduction of hourly wages of WPA workers in 1937 due to reduced funding from Congress.


Related: The History of Labor Day