"For Higher Wages! For Unemployment Insurance! For Recognition of the Labor Unions!!"
Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races because "united action of white and Negro workers is the way to win." It also includes a copy of the meeting permit issued (and later revoked) b...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races because "united action of white and Negro workers is the way to win." It also includes a copy of the meeting permit issued (and later revoked) by the city, and it lists the demands of the organization (such as "Equal rights for Negroes"; the release of the nine "Scottsboro boys"; and "a Soviet America where the bosses will be kicked out and the working people will run the U.S. and own everything"). It also includes a brief announcement about the rally to be held in the city on May 1. |
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