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THE HERITAGE OF SEN KATAYAMA
by Yoneda, Karl G
New York: History Commission, CPUSA, [1975]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 23p. A few chips on back and stains on front. Brief biography explaining the influence of the "Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, " one of the original members of the American Communist Party and the Japanese Communist Party. Article reprinted from the March 1975 issue of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party U.S.A. (8-1/2"x5-3/8")
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NZ$32.34
A SALUTE TO HARRY BRIDGES PRESENTED BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH, FEBRUARY 9, 1986
Los Angeles: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 1986. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 36p.) Wrap edges lightly scraped. Program for the Harry Bridges Testimonial Dinner with essays about Bridges' influence on trade unionism filled with tributes to the honoree from union locals, community members, and politicians. Australian-born Bridges founded the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) to represent West Coast stevedores and other...
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NZ$161.71
![The Party and the Struggle for Negro Rights" [in] The Party Review, Number 2](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/145/244/1530244145.0.b.jpg)
The Party and the Struggle for Negro Rights" [in] The Party Review, Number 2
San Francisco: California state organization of the Communist party, U.S.A., [195-]. An issue of the CPUSA's pre-convention discussion bulletin featuring issues of interest to the California party members. The two internal pages feature two articles under the heading "The Party and the struggle for Negro rights." In "Deep are the roots of special oppression of the Negro woman," Eleanor Broady of the Los Angeles chapter focuses on the role of black women in the party, especially as related to the "touchy...
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NZ$255.33
Organized Labor in New Jersey
by TROY, Leo
New York: Van Nostrand, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 237pp. Fine, unmarked copy in jacket - a new-appearing copy, except that the front jacket flap has been price-clipped. The development of labor in New Jersey from colonial times through the nineteen-sixties.
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NZ$34.04
Justice - North Carolina Style: The Record of the Year's Struggle for Unions in Gastonia and Marion, April 1929 to April 1930
by [American Civil Liberties Union]
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1930. A report on the violence perpetrated against organized workers in Gastonia and Marion, NC during labor struggles in 1929, in which 7 strikers were killed, 24 wounded, 7 sentenced to long prison terms and 7 kidnapped. Key events and participants are summarized. The ACLU helped with the defense of arrested workers and created this pamphlet "to state the facts and to help arouse public opinion." Stapled wrappers (9" x 6") with map of North Carolina to front...
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NZ$212.78
When Southern Labor Stirs: Part I: An Introduction to the Struggle of Southern Mountain Textile Workers
by Tippett, Tom
Huntington, West Virginia: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. A facsimile reprint of the first 53 p. of Tom Tippett's book, When Southern Labor Stirs (1931). A brief introduction explains the rationale for republication: "We publish it now as a good introduction to life in the mill towns of Southern Appalachia and to the struggle of Southern Mountain working people against their oppression." Also states the intent to publish three subsequent works by Tippett. Stapled wrappers, 53 p. Slight horizontal...
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NZ$42.56
From Taylorism to Fordism: A Rational Madness
by DORAY, Bernard; David Macey, trans.; Maurice Godelier, foreword
London: Free Association Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 229pp. Trivial age toning to margins of textblock, faint creasing to hinges of spine, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine. An exploration of the history of "scientific management" as it affects the work process and the psychiatry of workers.
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NZ$42.56
The Anvil: A Conservative Labor Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, August, 1965
by SULLIVAN, John S. (ed.)
New York: Labor Educational Association, 1965. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. Toning to newsprint, a few nicks and small closed tears, but VG overall. One issue (not this one) found in OCLC at Kansas, although we note one other issue in the Billy James Hargis papers in the Univ. of Arkansas Special Collections. Scarce. A single issue of the right wing labor paper, previously unknown to us, published in New York City by the generically named Labor Educational Association. We...
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NZ$85.11
![Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America [Inscribed 1st Printing]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/809/274/1113274809.0.b.jpg)
Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America [Inscribed 1st Printing]
by [ANARCHISM] ADAMIC, Louis
New York: Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth boards, with applied paper title labels to spine and front cover; dustwrapper; 452pp. Inscribed on half-title: "To Mr. George Schmitter with best wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Another hand has added initials and a date of 1934 beneath the inscription; a later owner has added a commercial bookplate to the dedication leaf (facing copyright page). The book is a solid, Very Good...
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NZ$1,106.43
A Look Back: Pages out of American Labor's Past
by DRESSMAKERS UNION LOCAL 22
New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, 1950. First Edition. Oblong quarto (23cm x 30cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; [36]pp; chiefly illus. Mild external dusting; Near Fine. Pictorial history of American labor struggles, beginning with the birth of the AFL (1886) and concluding with the massive protest by Dressmakers on the streets of New York City in May, 1949. Issued as a premium for distribution at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. An...
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The Impact of Military Spending on the Machinists Union
by [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS] ANDERSON, Marion
Washington DC: International Association of Machinists (IAM), 1979. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text margins, else Fine. Argues for a rebalancing of defense spending, with greater apportionment to civilian infrastructure projects and alternative energy initiatives.
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NZ$34.04
The Toiler's Monthly. A Free Lance Wielded for Workingmen by a Workingman. 7th Year / No. 3 (May 8, 1903)
by KINSEL, Jac. (ed)
Altoona: Jac. Kinsel, 1903. First Edition. Single octavo issue in original pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Slight external wear; internally clean, tightly bound and free of markings or significant wear; Very Good. Progressive, populist, pro-labor monthly devoted primarily to local and regional interests. The editor, Rev. Jacob Kinsel (d. 1938), was a long-time editor of Altoona's Democratic daily The Mirror and an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. This publication, which appears to...
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NZ$144.69
A Time for Anger. An Address by Albert Whitehouse, Director, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO at the Public Relations Seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, April 16, 1959
by WHITEHOUSE, Albert
Washington DC: Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, (1959). First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. Slim octavo (9" x 4"); printed glossy paper wrappers; 16pp. Clean and free of significant wear; Near Fine. Transcript of Whitehouse's speech to Harvard MBA candidates, a surprisingly strident attack (given the audience) against big business, conformity, and the society's loss of cohesion in the post-War era. "...It is time to take up the cudgels against the present dead level of conformity and for plain...
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NZ$42.56
CONSTITUTION OF THE OPERATIVE PLASTERERS' AND CEMENT FINISHERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
by Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association of the United States and Canada
Denver, Colorado: Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association of the United States and Canada, 1923. Stapled wraps. Very good. 48p. Wrap edges toned, creases to wraps causing the booklet to be a bit misshapen. (6"x3-5/8")
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NZ$32.34
BEHIND THE URALS : An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
by Scott, John; Kotkin, Stephen
Indiana University Press, 1989. 306pp. Softback, VG, enlarged edition prepared by Stephen Kotkin, Author's account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930's, . Soft Cover. Very Good.
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NZ$25.53
McCarthy: The Man and the Ism
by MORTON, Joseph
San Francisco: The Pacific Publishing Foundation, 1953. An early critical pamphlet of the Wisconsin Senator, which questions his military service record, highlights his unscrupulous law practice and shady financial dealings, exposes his connections with the extreme right fringe, and discusses his repressive Red Scare demagoguery. The concluding section suggests that "because of its cohesion, organized power, and manifest self-interest, labor is in the best position to lead a united crusade against...
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NZ$76.60
UAW - Ford: Sixty Years of Progress 1941 - 2001
Detroit: UAW-Ford National Programs Center, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Quarto, 104pp., illustrated. A fine copy in printed wrappers.
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NZ$59.58
Go Fight City Hall": A History of Our Union in Welfare
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 workers' organization in the United States. Stapled wrappers, 22 p., illustrations. A near fine copy.
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NZ$85.11
By-Laws Adopted by Vote of the Membership October 14, 1969; Approved by General President Hunter P. Wharton December 1, 1969; Local Unions 18,18A, 18B, 18C and 18RA International Union of Operating Engineers
by [International Union of Operating Engineers]
[no place given]: International Union of Operating Engineers, 1969. First Edition. Staplebound. Fine. 16mo, 60pp. A fine copy in the publisher's printed stapled wraps. A scarce pamphlet, as we found no copies in commerce or worldwide library holdings at the time of listing.
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NZ$59.58
Labors' War Upon Labor, With a Plea for the Poor and Weak
by HILLIS, Rev. Newell Dwight
[New York]: [The Committee], 1902. 22.5 x 15 cm; 15 pp. Saddle-stapled wrappers in Very Good+ condition. One small closed tear to top edge; two stamps, one embossed. Text clean throughout. This pamphlet is from an anti-union sermon delivered by the Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis (1858-1929) at his church, Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, NY, Sunday A. M., Nov. 9, 1902. Originally published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and then reprinted in pamphlet form by an association of business men in New York. Scarce. No...
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NZ$76.60
What Editors Say about the Chrysler "Slow-Down" Strike
by [Chrysler Corporation] [Anti-Union]
Detroit, Michigan: Chrysler Corporation, 1939. First Edition. Newspaper-style. Very good +. Folio, in newspaper format. Very good or better, with some sunning to the fold of the first leaf, with just a bit of wear. A few other places of mild offsetting, bu else a fine, crisp, bright copy on bright green paper. A collection of anti-union editorials from newspapers nationwide, collected by the Chrysler Corporation, with two editorial cartoons. Headlines read "Slow Down Strike is Plain...
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NZ$340.44
Jew-Communist CIO Chieftains Directed from Moscow (sticker)
by [ALLEN, Henry]; [American White Guard]
[Los Angeles]: [American White Guard], 1937. A 4 ¼" x 4 " sticker featuring the "Coat of Arms of the CIO," which is an illustration of two Jews sitting back-to-back hiding bombs and cudgels under their winged cloaks. Listed are eight Jewish CIO leaders and an acronym for the USSR: Union of Soulless Swine and Robbers. Although no creator is listed, a letter from American White Guard founder, Henry Allen, to Jewish Community Committee operative, Charles Slocombe, who...
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NZ$425.55
![Working and Fighting Together Regardless of Race, Creed, Color or National Origin [with] Report of the National CIO Commitee to Abolish Discrimination](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/478/135/1557135478.0.b.jpg)
Working and Fighting Together Regardless of Race, Creed, Color or National Origin [with] Report of the National CIO Commitee to Abolish Discrimination
Washington, D. C.: National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 1945. Two pamphlets documenting the Congress of Industrial Organization's campaign to eliminate racism & discrimination within the labor movement. In Working and Fighting Together, the Committee to Abolish Discrimination answers the question, "What can unions do about the problems of minorities in their own organizations?" The Report of the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination addresses the concerns of Negro veterans as...
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BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD (JACKET TITLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BIG BILL HAYWOOD)
by Haywood, William D
New York: International Publishers, 1929. Hardcover. Good +/good +. 368p. New printing, 1958. Page edges brown from acid discoloration, cover corners bumped, jacket has small tears and chips to edges especially at corners with spine sunned. Liberty Book Club News, February 1, 1956 laid in. (8-3/8"x5-3/4")
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NZ$49.36
Pla de la Victòria: P.S.U. / U.G.T.
by [SPANISH CIVIL WAR] PARTIT SOCIALISTA UNIFICAT DE CATALUNYA / UNIÓ GENERAL DE TREBELLADORS
[Barcelona: P.S.U. / U.G.T., n.d. but ca. 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); bifolium printed on newsprint, photo-montaged upper panel. A hint of wear and toning, else Near Fine. Promotional handbill issued at the height of the Spanish Civil War delineating the platform of the short-lived Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, the Catalan referent of the Communist Party of Spain, and its workers' union. The lovely photo-montaged upper panel depicts both military scenes, agricultural activities, and, at...
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