Title:

Collection of labor and political activism ephemera, approximately 1908-1940

Creator/Contributor:

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Creator/Contributor:

International Labor Defense

Contains a wide variety of printed ephemera covering various topics mostly related to progressive and radical political organizations concerned with worker's rights and other political issues such as economic justice and civil rights cases such as the Scottsboro trial. Most of the material pertains to California politics, elections and ballot propositions concerning labor rights with the rest covering national and international aspects of the same issues. Political ephemera includes literature for political candidates and parties, and some libertarian, socialist, and communist organizations. Also includes a small amount of similar ephemera for religous organizations. Ephemera types include brochures, booklets, flyers, fact sheets, newsletters, newspapers, newspaper clippings, broadsides, political campaign literature, an I.L.G.W.U. song book, International Labor Defense 5th annual convention proceedings report (October 8-9, 1932), roll call, California state legislature publications, etc.

Date:

1908 (issued)

Subject:

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Mooney, Thomas J -- 1882-1942

Labor movement -- California

Labor movement -- United States

Civil rights -- California

Civil rights -- United States

Employee rights -- Political aspects -- California

Employee rights -- Political aspects -- United States

Labor unions -- California

Labor unions -- United States

Labor unions -- United States -- Songs and music

Labor unions and socialism -- California

Labor unions and socialism -- United States

Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931

Collection of labor and political activism ephemera, approximately 1927-1940, BANC MSS 2016/108, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English, with some Spanish.

Type:

Ephemera.

Songbooks.

Newspapers.

print

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English

Spanish

Origin:

California