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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration
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A United Public Workers parade/demonstration from an adjacent sidewalk. The line of participants including a horse-drawn wagon stretches into the distance. Signs read "Big Three Unity" and "Why Must Our Wives Work?" Large downtown buildings line the opposite side of the street.
July 13, 1946
Eisenscher, Edmund, 1909-1995 (photographer)
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WHi 83673
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