Emma Tenayuca in Bexar County Jail

Photograph shows Emma Tenayuca (facing camera) standing with hand on bars.''Emma Tenayuca, national committee-woman of the Workers Alliance of America, Wednesday [June 30] was in Bexar County Jail following filing of unlawful assembly and disturbing peace charges in connection with attempt of ousted WPA workers to stage a sit-in at WPA headquarters, protesting cut in rolls.''''...Trouble started when about 200 ousted WPA workers staged a sit-in at WPA headquarters on the seventh floor of the Gunter [Office] Building...Protest was against the national cutting of WPA rolls. Arneson [E.P. Arneson, local WPA director] called police , who herded the protesters out of the building and arrested Miss Tenayuca [also Fernando Moreno, Robert Williams, and Jose Alfro].''.'