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Photographer (pht): deLespinasse, Hank, 1943-2017
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1971-02-16
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pho036445-395
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I Chanting groups of welfare mothers I yesterday pledged to take their fight I against the State Welfare Division to the I Strip in a “domr-die” demonstration in I early March.
I Dr. George Wiley, executive director of the militant National Welfare Rights
I Organization (NWRO), vowed the wel-
I fare recipients would be joined by other national organizations, including peace,
' and civil rights groups.
It was, only one incident
tinning series of actions on several fronts related to welfare terminations this winter of more than 3,000 Nevada citizens.
In rapid succession yesterday —Federal Judge Roger Foley dis solved a temporary restraining order
against the Welfare Division and set a hearing tomorrow to decide if the suit
will become a class action. 1
—Groups of welfare recipients and 1 participants in “Operation Nevada,” the ]
drive to block the welfare terminations,J staged demonstrations at the Welfare®
Division offices in Reno and Las Ve® gas. ■
—Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., me®
with officials of Operation Nevada andw
said he would assist,in working for posLl tive solutions in Nevada. fl
Foley’s decision to dissolve the tern- 1 porary restraining order which prevents ]
the state from terminating recipients I without notices and fair hearings, was J
effected because there had been no mo
tion or order declaring the temporary restrainer a class action. The hearing 1
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