A group of four individuals, two women and two men, picket on a city sidewalk in front of the Governor's Building located in Portland, Oregon. The group is identified as culinary workers and bartenders belonging to a local labor union. The man on the far left of the image is dressed in a hat, turtleneck, trousers, and a piece of material with the handwritten words, Unfair to C.I.O Local 636 and Organized-Labor. The man standing behind him is dressed in a suit and necktie. One of the women is dressed in a hat. Both women wear coats, skirts and hold purses. The sidewalk on which they stand is lined with buildings, businesses, metal balconies, doorways, pedestrians, and signs. Signs that read Silver Grill, Superiot Eats, Mission Orange, and Coca Cola project from the surface of the buildings. Automobiles are parked next to the curb of the sidewalk. Buildings and signs are visible in the distance.
A group of men, identified as being Chinese, protest on sidewalks surrounding a street. The men picket with signs that read, Remember the Panay and Bombs and shells are made from this scrap iron don't load it. Some of the men are dressed in aprons that have handwritten words on their surface. Two men stand in the middle of the street with an out-of-focus automobile visible beind them. The sidewalk is lined with streetlamps, utility poles and electric lines. In the foreground of the image is a partial view of the hood of another automobile.
