LABOR, COMMUNIST, URBAN LEAGUE, CIVIL RIGHTS LARGE LOT & PETE SEEGER COAL STRIKE BENEFIT '79 POSTER.
Item Description
Here is a great group of left-wing material, mostly pamphlets and magazines, grouped to finish out a multi-auction consignment. Lot starts with 1904 large 10.5x13" sheet music featuring art by famous cartoonist F. Opper with title "The Union Parade". VF. Next are six issues of The Communist magazine, official party issue. Sizes range from 6.5x9.25" (1930s) to 5x8" (1940s). Issues are 11/1936, 3/1937 (two issues) main article "The Great Automobile Strike", 3 and 6/1942 and 8/1943. Fine. Next four left wing mags 5.5x8" titled Critics Group Dialectics from 1937-39. One stained cover, other three Fine/VF. Next six Communist issued 5 x 7.5" booklets: 1) We Accuse! The Story of Tom Mooney, Published by I.L.D. 1938, (top two corners have small loss-Good) 2) Meet The Communists 1946 (tanned/cover partly split), 3) Fight High Prices 1947, VF, 4) Story of the Trenton Six 11/1949, VF, 5) The Big Plot, 1949, from Natl Committee to Defend the Rights of 12 Communist Leaders, Paul Robeson, co-chair, Exc. 6) Communists Take A New Look, 1956, VF. Next is handbill for 1939 Marian Anderson concert 6x9", Exc. Next is 8.5x11" four pages for c. 1949 re-election of Ben Davis issued by Harlem Communist Election Comm...., w/ 2" moisture mark on right edges. Fine. Next 6x9" National Urban League Report for 1945 (c) 1946 & US Dept Labor 1952 Negroes In The US- Their Employment & Economic Status, both bit tanned , Fine. Next are 19 issues of three different official publications of Technocracy Inc. These are 8.5x11" and all from late 1930s or 1940 with two later issues. The Technocracy movement was founded by American engineer Howard Scott. There are two issues of the Technocrat (one w/ binder holes), six issues of Technocracy Digest (four w/ clipped corner), and 10 issues of 81*-41* (from Cleveland area) which are holed for 3-ring binder. Overall all Fine or better. Last is 12x18" poster for June 8. 1979 Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C. performance by Pete Seeger and feminist/pro-union singer Hazel Dickens for "Stearns Miners Benefit". This was a brutal strike spanning four years in McCreary Co. Kentucky with the miners trying to achieve UMW representation and known as the Blue Diamond Coal Strike. NM. Many rarities.
