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Title: 160* Trade union leaders ask your support to end the war
Date: 1971
Description: Flier, created by the National Peace Action Coalition in 1971, that publicizes the Moratorium Day on October 13, 1971 and the November 6 anti-war protests in Washington, D.C. and urges trade unionists to participate.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Economic aspects -- United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0151
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70847
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Title: Boycott Farah, don't buy farah slacks!!, support the Farah strike
Date: 1972
Description: A 1972 Youth Against War & Fascism flier publicizing the boycott of Farah slacks, which is endorsed by the AFL-CIO, in solidarity with striking Farah workers. Farah Slacks was a large manufacturing company, employing over 10,000 workers comprised of 95% Chicano workers and 85% are women. The strikers and their union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO are asking for better wages and end to sexism and racism in the workplace. They are asking for support in their strike from consumers and asking the public to not purchase Farah slacks.
Subject: Boycotts; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0161
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71028
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Title: D.C. Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Greater Washington Central Labor Council
Date: 1975
Description: Flier publicizing an International Women's Day rally against inflation and economic depression on March 8, 1975 co-sponsored by the D.C. Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Greater Washington Central Labor Council. Demands of the rally include no wage controls, no job harassment, higher employment insurance for all workers, more jobs at union wages and public works jobs, and cuts to military budget to expand social programs. Rally speakers include Patrice Gancie, President, D.C. CLUW; Robert E. Petersen, President, Greater Washington Labor Council, AFL-CIO; Geraldine Boykin, Washington Coordinator, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Frankie Jeter, Chairwoman, NWRO; Representative of D.C. Chapter of NOW.
Subject: International Women's Day; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Economic aspects -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0146
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71009
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Title: Demonstrate in Washington D.C.!
Date: 1970/1975
Description: Flier distributed by the New England Regional Students for a Democratic Society publicizing a demonstration at the Labor Department on Saturday May 9 in Washington, D.C. The demonstration demands the U.S. get out of Southeast Asia, stopping political repression, no ROTC and military recruitment on campuses, and support striking Teamsters.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Demonstrations -- United States; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0166
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71035
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Title: Demonstrate with Workers League on Nov. 6
Date: 1971
Description: Flier publicizing the November 6, 1971 demonstration sponsored by the National Peace Action Coalition. The flier was created by the Workers League to both rally union and student participation in the demonstration and to urge the National Peace Action Coalition to center the anti-war demonstrations around the economic disruption the war causes the working class. The Workers League's demands in participating in the demonstration are the immediate withdrawal from Indochina, end the wage freeze, provide wage increases and cost of living adjustments for all workers, nationalization of basic industry under workers control, and to build a labor party to run against Nixon and the Democrats in the 1972 presidential election.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Economic aspects -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0150
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71013
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Title: For a united front
Date: 1970/1975
Description: Flier publicizing a meeting, organized by the National Caucus of Labor Committees, to plan the May Day demonstrations. The meeting is planned for the West End Public Library and includes supporters and speakers such as: John Camaratie, leader of the Philadelphia transit wildcat; Ann Horowits, executive board, Newark Teachers Union; Early Stout, International VP, AFSCME; Baltimore Alliance for Education and Jobs; Columbia University SMC; Queens College SMC; and the National Caucus of Labor Committees. The flier also discusses the "strike wave," economic crisis, and the plight of the worker in a capitalist society.
Subject: Demonstrations -- United States; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Economic aspects -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0167
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71036
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Title: Mass meeting; Laos invasion
Date: 1970/1975
Description: Flier publicizing a meeting, organized by the Workers League, in response to the U.S. invasion of Laos during the Vietnam War. The meeting aims to propose a strategy for a national student strike against the war and to fight for a general labor strike.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0165
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71034
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Title: A message to American labor
Date: 1971
Description: Flier, issued by the Center for United Labor Action in 1971, publicizing the case against Lieutenant William Calley, who scabbed during the Florida East Coast Railroad strike and then served in the military during the Vietnam War where he murdered 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre. The flier demands Calley be brought to justice, and that the business interests also be punished.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Calley, William Laws, Jr., 1943-
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0149
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71012
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Title: National Caucus of Labor Committees press release
Date: 1970/1975
Description: This flier contains a press release, dated January 7, 1974, reprinting of a telegram that was sent to President Nixon on January 6, 1974 by the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) claiming that the NCLC uncovered evidence of CIA conspiracy and other crimes against the United States and urging President Nixon to take action.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0169
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71038
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Title: Nixon escalates the war -- at our expense
Date: 1972
Publisher: Washington Labor for Peace
Description: A flier publicizing the emergency antiwar action demonstration in Washington, D.C. on Saturday May 13, 1972, sponsored by the Washington Ad Hoc Committee for an Emergency Response. The events of the demonstration include a march from the Ellipse down Pennsylvania Avenue to a rally at the Capitol building; Federal Employees for Peace Rally at the Treasury building on Thursday May 11, 1972; and a vigil at the White House. The demands of the demonstration include a halt to the bombing and mining in Southeast Asia, and immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Southeast Asia, and an and to support of the Thieu puppet regime. The flier is issued by the Washington Labor for Peace. The flier also depicts a cartoon of a Spartan soldier taking money from a man outside a payroll office, and includes a summary of the economic cost the Vietnam War is causing U.S. workers.
Subject: Demonstrations -- United States; Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0162
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71029
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Title: Stop the war - stop the war machine
Date: 1970
Description: Flier, created by the Suffolk Labor Committee and the National Caucus of Labor Committees, advocating to build a mass revolutionary movement, including students, workers, and unemployed people, that demands to flight inflation and unemployment as a means of stopping the war in Vietnam.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Economic aspects -- United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0145
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71008
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Title: Support Trailways Strikers Join the Line!
Date: 1974
Description: Flier publicizing a picket line on Friday May 27, 1974 at the Trailways bus terminal in Washington, D.C. The picket line is organized by the Trailways Strike Support Committee in support of the Continental Trailways drivers' two year strike against the company over wage increases and benefits.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Strikes and lockouts -- Bus drivers
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0147
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71010
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Title: We are fed up with the cost of living
Date: 1971
Description: Flier stating the intention of the Communications Workers of America to strike against the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and other telephone companies beginning on July 14, 1971. The strike is based on the low wages and poor working conditions experienced by the Communications Workers of America union members.
Subject: Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Strikes and lockouts -- Telephone companies
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0148
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:71011
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.