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AFL Protest at Bellevue-Stratford hotel
- Related Essay
- The Old Swedes Public Housing Plan, 1939-40: City Politics Sink a Federal Project
- Street Address
- City Hall
- Creator Name
- Philadelphia Record
- Date Created
- 1940
- Description
- Caption reads: photograph shows a section of the crown of American Federation of Labor members who gathered outside the Bellevue-Stratford yesterday to tell visiting Republicans their resentment over the knifing of the housing program by the Republican City Council. The descent on the Bellevue followed a mass-meeting in Reyburn Plaza, shortyl before Council vote 12 to 10 to turn down $19,000,000 in Rederal housing funds.
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2898 / Philadelphia House - Labor Protests - Old Swedes / Southwark Housing Project)
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