Labor Rally Speaker (Civic Center, San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA, 1934
Dorothea Lange
Film negative
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
4.25 in x 3.25 in
A67.137.7756
© The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California.
Survey Graphic wrote and asked me for some of those photographs of the May Day communist demonstrations to accompany an article, and I sent them two or three. They printed one, full-page, with their own caption underneath, which was: ‘Workers of the World, Unite! . . .’ It wasn’t my caption and it, of course, gave the picture a turn which a good documentary photographer is very punctilious about.
Additional Information
This photograph was taken at a labor rally in 1934 during the General Strike in San Francisco. The speaker at the microphone is Alfred A. Girard, who came to this country around 1926 as a student from Russia. H
This photograph was taken at a labor rally in 1934 during the General Strike in San Francisco. The speaker at the microphone is Alfred A. Girard, who came to this country around 1926 as a student from Russia. He joined the labor movement in San Francisco and worked in left-wing causes until the end of his life.
