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Engraved membership card for the National Anti-Corn-Law League, completed in autograph ink for Mr. Robt. Waller, member 24,388 and endorsed by Manchester anti-Corn Law activist John Brindle. Anti-Corn-Law League.

Engraved membership card for the National Anti-Corn-Law League, completed in autograph ink for Mr. Robt. Waller, member 24,388 and endorsed by Manchester anti-Corn Law activist John Brindle.

[Manchester? n. p., ca. 1838-1846]. Broadside on card stock, approx. 4.5 x 6 inches. Engraved vignette, "Stephenson & Royston Del. & Sc." An attractive ephemeral relic of the political fight against trade restrictions on grains in England, an important early free trade movement, here decorated with an engraved vignette of... More

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5 or 10 cents -- Which is Fair? [caption title]. [Wrapper title:] 5 [cent] Fare or 10 [cent] Fare: Which is Fair? Peter Cacchione.

5 or 10 cents -- Which is Fair? [caption title]. [Wrapper title:] 5 [cent] Fare or 10 [cent] Fare: Which is Fair?.

(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

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Hear Wm. Z. Foster Communist Candidate for President of U.S.A. Saturday, July 23, 7:30pm. Arena Gardens . . . [caption title]. Ford Hunger March, William Z. Foster.

Hear Wm. Z. Foster Communist Candidate for President of U.S.A. Saturday, July 23, 7:30pm. Arena Gardens . . . [caption title].

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

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Small printed form, completed in pencil: July 4th, 1900. Received of bearer the sum of $[25 cts] for Trades Union Line of buses and wagons, to be operated by the striking street railway men of St. Louis. [J. L. Robertson] Solicitor. Labor Strikes.

Small printed form, completed in pencil: July 4th, 1900. Received of bearer the sum of $[25 cts] for Trades Union Line of buses and wagons, to be operated by the striking street railway men of St. Louis. [J. L. Robertson] Solicitor.

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

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Social Control of Industrial Warfare. Walter Gordon Merritt.

Social Control of Industrial Warfare.

(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

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Reasons Humbly Offer’d for the Bill, for Ascertaining and Limiting the Time of Future Publick Mournings . . . [caption title]. Silk Manufacture, Lobbying.

Reasons Humbly Offer’d for the Bill, for Ascertaining and Limiting the Time of Future Publick Mournings . . . [caption title].

[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

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Three Cents a Day to secure $1,000 to your Wife and Children. The Sovereigns of Industry Mutual Relief Association of Massachusetts . . . [caption title]. Sovereigns of Industry.

Three Cents a Day to secure $1,000 to your Wife and Children. The Sovereigns of Industry Mutual Relief Association of Massachusetts . . . [caption title].

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

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Wheelbarrow. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question. Matthew Mark Trumbull, “Wheelbarrow”.

Wheelbarrow. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question.

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

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Window display card for the Buffalo, N. Y. clothier Wile Bros. & Weill, "Our Guarantee 'A New Garment for Every Unsatisfactory One' Union Label Price . . ." Union Label, Wile Bros., Weill.

Window display card for the Buffalo, N. Y. clothier Wile Bros. & Weill, "Our Guarantee 'A New Garment for Every Unsatisfactory One' Union Label Price . . ."

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

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The Great Sit-Down Strike. William Weinstone.

The Great Sit-Down Strike.

(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

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