steel workers (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 1968. Hardback. Pamphlet Series No. 7. Ex-libris with usual markings. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear. . . . .

Zustand: Very Good. 1968. Hardback. Pamphlet Series No. 7. Ex-libris with usual markings. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

First Edition. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo; comb-bound pictorial card wrappers; 88pp. Mild rubbing to covers, else Fine. A primer on political organizing for rank-and-file union members, issued in advance of the 1984 national elections.

Unbound. Zustand: Fine. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on oblong 8.5" x 11" paper. Fine. An original flyer promoting a Celebrity Skin show at the Roxy with The Miracle Workers, Babes in Toyland, and Steel Pole Bathtub with cartoon images of Elton John, Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Gene Simmons. Post-punk glam band, Celebrity Skin was the result of Germs side project Vagina Dentata breaking up and bassist Tim Ferris and drummer Gary Jacoby forming a new band.

Mimeographed broadside leaflet, 8-1/2 x 11 in. Graphic leaflet urging Oakland steel workers to organize under the auspices of the C.I.O. during the rapid growth of industry in the Bay Area propelled by wartime production demands. Pencil notation in upper corner; some toning toward edges and on verso; very good.

Six volumes bound in one; narrow octavos (23.25cm.); contemporary green cloth lettered in gilt, original card wrappers bound in. Boards a bit shelf-worn, front hinge cracked between typescript table of contents and first wrapper, else Very Good or better, last three title with "Complimentary" rubberstamp to upper covers. Issued as S.W.O.C. publications no. 1-6. Contents as follows: 1. Handling Grievances. 24pp. Fifth Printing. 2. Production Problems. 28pp. 3. Murray, Philip. Technological Unemployment: "The Social and Economic Consequences of Technology." 56pp. 4. Industrial Training: Apprentice, Vocational and Industrial Training in Relation to the National Defense Program. 18pp. 5. Murray, Philip. How to Speed Up Steel Production: A Plan to Achieve Total Steel Output to Aid National Defense. 20pp. 6. Organized Labor and Management: How to Make Effective National Unity in Defense. 21pp.

First Edition. Mimeographed, side-stapled sheets, 11" x 8-1/2"; 6pp; printed recto-only. Text toned with chips to extremities; but of rust to staples; Good and sound. Ink signature of a "Dolph Mosley / Fairfield" to front cover. Report to the second annual convention of the S.W.O.C., documenting the union's successes in the southern states during its first year of existence and as well as union-busting activities which as might be imagined were rampant throughout the south during this period, especially against a C.I.O.-affiliated union with a reputation for radicalism and a racial integration. A locus of anti-labor sentiment appears to have been the industrial community of Gadsden, Alabama, where the authors document numerous instances of direct threats against steelworkers, including some that were racially motivated. Rare; as in our experience is most southern steelworkers material from this period.

First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; vi,[9]-185pp. Wrappers rather spotted, crude spine tape repair, textblock a bit toned, else Good to Very Good, internally sound. Inscribed and signed by the author in pencil on front free endpaper to former Governor of Michigan Chase S. Osborn with his ex libris inside upper cover and three extensive initialed pencil annotations to early leaves of text. Contemporary account of the American steel strike, organized by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers in September, 1919, in the wake of the end of World War I in an effort to reorganize the industry, though the strike ended unsuccessfully in January, 1920. This a significant association copy of the former Republican governor of Michigan (1911-1913), who noted in pencil on p. 17, in response to the massive U.S. Steel Corporation's surplus at the end of 1919: "Thou must not tread on the sensitive toes of dollars; rather on the hearts of men," adding on the following page, "rather on the bleeding hearts of mankind." Previous to his political activities, Osborn travelled widely, discovering iron mines in both Canada and Madagascar; for this, one of his memoirs was titled "The Iron-Hunter." Mary Heaton Vorse was herself a radical novelist, journalist, and editor of "The Masses," and while her relationship with Osborn is unclear, we find reference to a few pieces of correspondence, dated between 1913 and 1920, in the Mary Heaton Vorse Papers at Wayne University.