SLATE INFORMATION: Unemployed Men "Sold" at auction. Boston - Old Common sees sight that recalled slave days the parade of the jobless

USA: Massachusetts: Boston:
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High Angle shot of unemployed men marching through crowd - many of the unemployed are carrying paper parcels

TITLE: "Shorn lambs" eat lunch donated by business men

SV men sitting in rows, opening their packed lunch boxes and eating their packed lunch. (2 shots).

TITLE: Urbain Ledoux pleads for jobs for them.

BV Ledoux (champion of the unemployed) addressing crowd of men

TITLE: On the Auction Block

BV "seller" and unemployed man stand facing crowd, unemployed man has bare thin back towards camera.

TITLE: Dog and man sold together for $5

SV unemployed man standing holding dog in front of crowd.

TITLE: Couple "buys" boy until he can get work

SV boy standing between well dressed middle aged couple - The youth clasping the hand of the woman steps down off the platform, the man shakes the hand of the "dealer".
MV Ledoux smiling
Background: Unemployed men sold by auction at Boston