COMMUNIST PARTY NINE HANDBILLS FROM CLEVELAND CIRCA 1934-1936.
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Auction #201 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1408 in auction 201
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Item Description
Each is about 8.5x11” printed on one side. Fabulous coverage of mid-1930s social issues from unemployment to Jim Crowism to Nazi terror. Two fliers have 1.5” edge tear with archival tape repair on reverse, o/w all are Exc. Briefly subjects covered are: 1) “Lenin Memorial Mass Meeting” with speaker W.W. Weinstone from Central Committee Communist Party; 2) “17th Anniversary Of Russian Revolution Mass Celebration” with Earl Browder speaking; 3) “Hitler To Murder Thaelmann!” march to German consulate flier from American League Against War and Fascism (see related button #485); 4) “Veterans” meeting to greet veteran delegates on way to 2nd Congress Against War and Fascism; 5) “Stop Winter Suffering/Demonstrate For Cash! Coal! Clothes!” march assembling instructions from Cleveland unemployment chronicles; 6) Routes for “May 1st Parade Lines 1934”; 7) “Oppose Two Mill Levy!” issued by “Rank And File Committee Of The American Federation Of Labor”; 8) “Visit The New Workers Book Shop” sale flier on left wing literature. Lists six publishers; 9) “Hear John Marshall Communist Candidate For U.S. Congressman At Large – The Valiant Fighter For The Farmers Rights.” Rare material. From the Morry Greener Collection.
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