Archive photograph
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clamoring lustily for jobs on civil works projects, nearly 1,000 jobless are shown listening to the exhortations of J.I. Whidden, organizer, who admonished them front postoffice steps to band together in a demand for work, Whidden and a committee of 15 work seekers had just completed a conference with L.C. Giles, state civil works administrator, who promised them work during the afternoon."
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"Crowd On The Federal Building Steps At Noon Monday", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 28, 1933
Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism; Whidden, J.I.; Communist Leader; Daily Oklahoman photographs; WHIDDEN, J.I. / COMMUNIST LEADER