[LABOR] -- [SOCIAL JUSTICE]. Ephemera documenting twentieth-century social justice and worker's movements, comprising:

Workers! Defeat the 50% Relief Cut! Join the Hunger March to City Hall. [Chicago]: [1932]. Signed in type at bottom right by Unemployed Councils of Cook County, Workers' Committee on Unemployment, and Workers' League of America. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (sight), 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (framed), (toned, loss to entire left side extending to top and bottom edge lines, unexamined outside frame).

Broadside advertises a Chicago Unemployed Movement's protest for food and housing during the Great Depression, a time during which the largest protest movement for unemployed people's welfare in U.S. history arose. The unemployed movement in Chicago was one of the largest of any US city.

[With:] The Guild's Hearst Strike Against the Chicago Evening American and Herald & Examiner: Churchmen's report on the Issues Involved in the Strike, with Findings and Recommendations. [Chicago]: [Churchmen's Fact Finding Committee on the Guild's Hearst Strike], [1939]. 5 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. pamphlet (minor toning). RARE, OCLC locates one copy at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

[With:] FRED the Socialist Press Service. Chicago: Socialist Press Service, 10 March 1969. 8 1/2 x 11 in., 36 pp typed (heavy toning to first and back pages, otherwise light wear and toning). FRED news service was designed to be a central information center for articles and issues related to socialist movement organizations in the Chicago area. Packets included a calendar of movement happenings, a classified section, and feature news and articles. The publication was spearheaded by a group of five activists including Donna Gripe, Harriet Stulman, Linda Turner, Lowen Berman, and C. Clark Kissinger. Kissinger was the National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society from 1964-65, and was the principal organizer of the first March on Washington against the Vietnam War in 1965.

[Also with:] Justice! Royal Oak [?] Michigan: Justice/Fast!, 4 July 1970. 8 1/2 x 14 in. (toning, creasing at folds, verso with large black spot covering portion of text). Fundraising broadside detailing a "Fast for Justice" on behalf of imprisoned poet and activist John Sinclair.

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