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(Brookyn: Peter V. Cacchione), [ca. 1944?]. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed self wrappers, 23 pages. Illus. The Communist Party New York City Councilman from Brooklyn here makes the exptected arguments against the proposed subway fare hike and ties the proposals of the subway commission to large property owners looking..... More
[Houghton-le-Spring? n. p., ca. 1880-1900?]. Original black and white gelatin print, 1.5 x 2.25 inch image on a mount measuring 4.13 x 2.5 inches, mount with scalloped edges. 8-line autograph manuscript poem captioning the image. A clear, crisp, striking image of men standing in front of structures (including smokestacks) at..... More
Detroit: n. p., [1932]. First edition. Broadside, 11 x 8.75 inches. Vignette portrait of Foster. With reference to “the Ford Massacre on Bloody Monday,” and calls for an end to racial discrimination. Foster had escaped arrest in the wake of the violence in Dearborn in March. More
Chicago: General Administration [I.W.W.], ca. 1916. 16mo, original printed wrappers, An early version of the I.W.W. constitution, as adopted in 1905 and amended through 1916 (the year of the Everett Massacre) and by all appearances here contemporary to 1916. A few pencil notes to the rear wrapper. More
![Small printed form, completed in pencil: July 4th, 1900. Received of bearer the sum of $[25 cts]...](/pictures/thumb/16035.jpg?v=1465913981)
St. Louis: n. p., [1900]. Small broadside, 4 x 3.75 inches. Union bug at the foot of the text. An ephemeral pro-labor relic of a violent street car operators’ strike in St. Louis that stretched from May to September, 1900 in the wake of street car company consolidation (the state..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Mentz & Son, 1835. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 8.38 x 5.25 inches, 20 pages. “The same tendency [to riot] is seen in what are technically termed STRIKES, when combinations are formed by men who refuse to labour, and a parade of physical force is made..... More
(New York: League for Industrial Rights), [1921?]. First edition, an ex-library copy with ink stamps to the front wrapper, title and inside rear wrapper. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 45, [2] pages. The anti-union, pro-management attorney here contributes a detailed argument against workers' rights to organize and to strike. More
[N. p., but London? n. p., 1709 or 1710?]. First edition. Single leaf, evidently extracted from a nonce volume (with traces of calf along one edge), 12.75 x 8 inches, with a printed docket title on the verso. An early example of industry lobbying, a petition to Parliament on the..... More
Boston: n. p., [ca. 1875-1878]. First edition. Single sheet printed recto and verso, approx. 11 x 8.25 inches. A life insurance and relief scheme for this short-lived cooperative order that was something of an urban counterpart to the Grange movement; each member of the Association would pay into the fund..... More
Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1894. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull’s pseudonym “Wheelbarrow” at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: “While aspiring..... More
Buffalo, N.Y. Graphic Arts Co., 1903. Broadside color lithograph on card stock, approx. 4.75 x 6.5 inches. An attractive advertising card touting the Buffalo garment company's clothing ($12--presumably for a suite) and its union labor. The card includes an oblique tie-in to the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition ("Pan American Guaranteed..... More
(New York: Workers Library Publishers Inc., 1937.). First edition. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers, 45, [3] pages. On the success of the Flint Sit-Down Strike against GM and the emergence of the UAW (and incidentally the role of the Communist party in the strike's success) from the Secretary of the Michigan..... More
Lowell: Leonard Huntress, Printer, 1841. First edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 9 x 5.63 inches, 24 pages. The former mayor of Lowell answers attacks on the labor and social conditions of the factory girls in the mills in Lowell, with much on the systems and laws in place to insure education..... More
