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Wisconsin Worker's Alliance Float
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The Wisconsin Worker's Alliance May Day parade float. The float has three workers on it with tools and signs read "Roosevelt's Recovery Program: Never More Will One Third of the Nation Be Ill Housed, Ill Fed or Ill Clad!" "Jobs W.P.A." "Youth N.Y.A. C.C.C."
May 1, 1938
Eisenscher, Edmund, 1909-1995 (photographer)
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