(5406) Unemployment, Demonstrations, Unemployed Union, New York, 1930s

Members of the "Unemployed Union" demonstrate outside of a carpentry shop in New York City.

The Unemployed Union was created by the IWW in 1931 to organize workers who were without jobs during the Great Depression. Locals were active in New York, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon.

(5406) Unemployment, Demonstrations, Unemployed Union, New York, 1930s
Date: 
1930s
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Photograph