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Housing Council protest
- Related Essay
- The Old Swedes Public Housing Plan, 1939-40: City Politics Sink a Federal Project
- Creator Name
- Philadelphia Record
- Date Created
- 1940
- Description
- Caption reads: Police restrained six members of the coordinating housing council who wanted to picket convention hall yesterday in protest against city council's action in killing $19,000,000 worth of low-rent housing (article dated June 25 1940) Picket signs read: "90,000 Philadelphia families live in substandard houses, republicans here kill hopes for decent homes"; "Jay Cooke's City Council takes away 6,000,000 in heavy wages from Philadelphia workers"; "Slums cost more in sickness and crime than loss of
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2898 / Philadelphia House - Labor Protests - Old Swedes / Southwark Housing Project)
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