LEFT-WING 1928 BUTTON PROMOTING SPORTS: CHICAGO VERSION, NOT NYC.
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Auction #209 - Part I
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Item Description
This 15/16" litho showing a man going over a hurdle has text reading "Labor Sports Union Of America/Second National Meet/Chicago Aug. 25-26, 1928." This group was founded a year earlier by I.W.W. members, Socialists and Communists. In 1928, the year of this button, the Communists expelled the others. A year later in 1929 the L.S.U. affiliated with the group Red Sports International. Tiny wear marks on outer edge. Clean. VF. Rare.
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