THREE RARE SOCIALIST AND LABOR UNION NEW YORK STATE BUTTONS.
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First two are 1.25", the first with Bastian paper used only 1907-1920 and the other with W&H paper used 1900-1912. Third button is 7/8" and has W&H paper used 1900-1912. First button showing a red brick inscribed "Rochester, N.Y." has additional text "Baustein Fuer/Labor Lyceum." This lyceum was founded in 1897 in Rochester by local unions and socialists. They presented speakers, papers and debates on topics ranging from trade unionism to child labor and academic freedom. In 1911 the mayor, upset with such programs, expelled the lyceum from City Hall. The organization built a new headquarters in 1912, using the fundraiser button, which provided space to socialist organizations and housed radical unions such as the Amalgamated Optical Workers and the Brewers. Next two buttons, apparently both related, are from Albany and carries the initials of the group Central Federation of Labor. They built a hospital with text on the larger button reading "Labor's Gift To The Sick, What's Yours?/Albany C.F. of L. Tuberculosis Pavilion." Second button showing the symbol for the disease reads "Labors Gift To Humanity/What's Yours?" All three are rare and NM displaying Mint.
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