Food War - Cleveland’s Needy Capture City Hall Aka Food Crisis - Cleveland, Usa Lner (1938)

Titles read: “FOOD WAR - CLEVELAND’S NEEDY CAPTURE CITY HALL“. Cleveland, Ohio (?), United States of America. Various shots of unemployed men and women staging a starvation sit-in at Cleveland City Hall to protest against dole money of as little as $3 a week. Men sit at a table and play cards. Two African-American women sit in a pew propped up against each other as they sleep. Brief shots of exterior of the Hall at beginning and end of item. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984.
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