In January 1933, dairymen poured more than 12,000 gallons of milk into the Los Angeles city sewers every day. Members helped one another resist evictions; sometimes they moved a family back in after a landlord had put them out. Yet in most accounts, the self-help co-ops get barely a line. It would have taken the state’s idle farmland and factories and turned them into worker co-ops. But the main thing that killed the co-ops was the Works Progress Administration and its cash jobs.