1930-1940 Gottlieb and Wolt

Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1977. 603 pp., 1930s

Part II: 1917-1941

Chapter 11 The EPIC Challenge

1. The Depression

     " . . . the city's unions, which were then enjoying a sudden resurgence in response to the recent passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act . . .

     "In Los Angeles, after the NIRA was signed into law, thousands of new members joined the unions in a matter of weeks. By the spring of 1934 a strike wave had spread throughout the sate. Celery and berry pickers walked off thier jobs, a protracted garment worker's strike began in October 1933, furniture workers, millinery workers, meat packers, the movie studios, and the relief workers at the Department of Charities all went out . . . Twelve major strikes, each involving more than a hundred employees, occurred in Los Angeles in 1933, and eighteen more in 1934. In May 1934, a seamen and longshoremen's walkout tied up the entire Pacific Coast and led to the historic general strike in San Francisco . . ." p. 204

2. "I, Governor of California"

     " . . . By the fall of 1933 . . . Los Angeles County, with more than 300,000 unemployed . . ." p. 205

     " . . . In California, the left-leaning Roosevelt followers joined under the banner of the Democratic candidate for governor, Socialist writer Upton Sinclair.

     "Sinclair, the author of The Jungle and numerous popular tracts and novels, had lived in Southern California since World War I . . . p. 206

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