Pickets. In the controversy over the new rules, pickets (above) march in line before the WPA Adult Education Bureau at 13 Astor Place. At left, striking WPA workers and sympathizers are shown in Columbus Circle carrying dummies representing Woodrum and Taber. The demonstrators prepared to hang the two representatives in effigy when police, 450 strong in the Circle, intervened and ended that phase of the demonstration.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1939]

[Information from item housing] Depression Era: U.S.