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  • Refregier's controversial pro-labor mural shows men begging for jobs from a corrupt hiring boss. The figure at center could be union organizer Harry Bridges and the figures at right mourn two strikers killed on "Bloody Thursday," July 5, 1934, the day the police fired at strikers on Rincon Hill. Courtesy, Wikimedia Commons.

    Art on trial

    Originally published: Living New Deal on January 17, 2025 by Gray Brechin (more by Living New Deal)  | (Posted Jan 24, 2025)

    The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.