Washington, D. C. Department of Civil Rights, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, [1956]. An early AFL-CIO civil-rights publication reproducing an address by secretary-treasurer William F. Schnitzler before the Jewish Labor Committee’s Third National Trade Union Congress on Civil Rights. Schnitzler declares racial equality a central obligation..... More
London: W. Speaight & Sons, 1916. Stapled wrappers, 12, [1] p. Toning to cheap paper stock, faint offsetting. More
[Washington, D. C.]: Farmworker Benefit Committee, [1971]. A poster for a benefit concert for the farmworker movement held at McDonough Gymnasium at Georgetown Univ. on April 18, 1971 and featuring Odetta, Anthony Quinn, Ricardo Montalban, Phil Ochs, Cast of "Hair," Voices of East Harlem, Teatro Nuestra Lucha, Johnny Acey &..... More
Raleigh: Black Workers for Justice, [198-]. A two-sided flyer calling for a boycott of Coors beer for its racist, anti-labor and anti-progressive corporate policies. The recto charges William Coors with being a slavery apologist and for propagating the theory that blacks are intellectually inferior to whites. At the bottom is..... More
Washington, D. C. Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1939. Second Edition. An uncommon history of the well-known 20th century labor organization a few years after its founding. Stapled wrappers, 54 p., photographs. Some rubbing and light wear to wrappers. More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., [1940]. A CPUSA campaign book that begins with biographies of candidates Earl Browder and James W. Ford. These are followed by the Preamble to the Constitution of the CPUSA, its election platform for 1940, sections on the Republican, Democrat and Socialist parties, and the..... More
[Chicago?]: Revolutionary Student Brigade, [ca. 1975]. A 14” x 8 ½” flyer for an International Women's Day event organized by the Revolutionary Student Brigade featuring a women's slide show and skit. The text provides a brief history of International Women's Day and its origin in labor struggles, which often involved..... More
Detroit: Motor City Labor League, 1971. The first of only six published issues of the newspaper issued by the Motor City Labor Coalition, a Marxist-Leninist group that formed in Detroit in late 1970 by activists involved with the Ad Hoc Action Group led by Sheila Murphy and People Against Racism..... More
Detroit: Motor City Labor League, 1972. The final of only six published issues of the newspaper issued by the Motor City Labor Coalition, a Marxist-Leninist group that formed in Detroit in late 1970 by activists involved with the Ad Hoc Action Group led by Sheila Murphy and People Against Racism..... More
Cambridge: Community Press Service, 1973. A single issue of this strangely formatted underground publication, which is composed of 16 11” x 17” loose sheets printed on rectos only (with blank yellow cover sheet). Content includes original and reprinted articles on union activity and workers’ rights, rent control protests and rent..... More
[Berkeley]: The Committee of Concerned Co-Op Members and Trade Unionists, [1985]. A flyer issued by Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley (CCB) members who were opposed to the board's equivocation around the long-standing Coors boycott. The text cites Coors' anti-worker, racist, and homophobic company policies and reminds the board that selling a...... More
New York: National Education Department, Communist Party, 1949. This copy was cherished by a comrade until his/her kid began doodling all over the front cover in pencil. Stapled wrappers (10 ¾” x 8 ½”), 14 p. Small split along lower spine, aforementioned doodling, flirting with very good. More
Keene, California: El Malcriado, 1973. An issue of the official newspaper of the United Farm Workers' movement. Articles on various UFW and broader labor movement campaigns; a centerfold spread introducing the National Executive Board following the UFW's 1973 convention; international news on Chile under Pinochet and Canadian farmworkers; two-page comic..... More
[Chicago?]: United Mayday Committee, 1975. A bilingual publication issued by the United Mayday Committee, a front group for the Revolutionary Union, for a May Day demonstration in NYC. "MayDay 1975 will be a demonstration of our growing strength, a statement of our class to rouse all our class brothers and..... More
Bronx: Committee to Defend Juan Otero, [1973]. A flyer on behalf of imprisoned Puerto Rican activist Juan Otero, a “victim of a campaign by vengeful Bronx cops and angry contractors in the building trades, long a stronghold of racism.” Otero is described as a “family man, educational specialist, respected community..... More
New York: United Public Workers Local 1, [1949]. On the history and activities of United Public Workers Local 1, which began as the Emergency Home Relief Bureau Employees Association during the Great Depression. It later became the Association of Workers in Public Relief Agencies before becoming the largest civil service..... More
New York: Labor Action for Peace, [196-]. Labor Action for Peace was a small, seemingly short-lived group formed in NYC in 1962 "to rally working men and women to combine their economic and social aims with the aims and requirements of peace" (qtd. on p. 86 of Fred Rose's book..... More
[Detroit?]: n.p., [1949]. A tribute to long-time Communist labor organizer, Bill McKie's, on the occasion of his 72nd birthday. McKie was a Scottish-born member of the Sheet Metal and Braziers Union who emigrated to the U.S. in 1927 and began organizing a union at Ford. He was an inveterate Communist..... More
Chicago: Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee and the National United Workers Organization, [1978]. A two-sided flyer for marches in Washington, D. C. and Oakland, CA organized by the Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee and the National United Workers Organization. The demonstrations were held ahead of President Jimmy Carter's state-of-the-union address, in which..... More
Albuquerque, New Mexico: El Comite de Obra del Partido la Raza Unida, 1972. The second issue of the short-lived newspaper of the New Mexico branch of La Raza Unida. Bilingual content focuses on land rights for Mexican Americans, coverage of various protests and demonstrations, Chicano labor struggles, etc.... More
[New York]: Local 1 UPW-CIO, 1949. A folder of 17 songs distributed at the UPWA’s 1949 convention. Attendees were encouraged to “Save this Folder [to] “sing while you fight - on the picket line - on a picnic - at chapter meetings - socials - always.” The bulk of the..... More
New York: United Labor and People's Committee for May Day, 1952. A pamphlet preceding May Day activities for 1952, which highlights the history of the holiday and the struggle for Negro rights, labor organizing, and peace. The United Labor and People’s Committee for May Day was a Communist front organization..... More
[New York: Marxist-Leninist Party], [1971]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed broadside published by the ultra-orthodox Marxist-Leninist Party on the true nature of May Day. The MLP contends that the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie have co-opted May Day with their “solemn ceremonies of bourgeois ‘Law Day’ carried out by the dust-covered..... More
[Chicago?]: [1903]. Meeting minutes from the 1903 joint conference of the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of Information and the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. Includes a roll call for each of the three days, a change to Article 3 of the Constitution, a resolution from the Lumber Dealers Association for the..... More
London: Engineering and Allied Trades Shop Stewards National Council, [1944]. First edition. Stapled, salmon-colored wrappers (4 ½” x 7 ¼”), 24 pp, photographs. Light wear to wrappers, staple oxidized, a few tiny nicks to edges, VG. Seven copies in OCLC. “March 12 will long be remembered as the day when a...... More