In the depths of the Great Depression, about 1000 men and women waged a peaceful march on City Hall to focus attention on immediate unemployment relief. Members of the Unemployed Council, the Trade Unity League and the Communist Party requested: 1) unemployment insurance at $15 per week; 2) a relief fund of $1 million generated by reducing city officials' salaries; 3) non-ejection of unemployed not able to pay house rent. The South Sound Photo Album, Tacoma Public Library
(Series: TPL- 1845; Date: 02-25-1931; Collection: Chapin Bowen Collection)