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Poster

Kohler Strike Poster

Date: 1934
Description: Poster urging the boycott of Kohler Company plumbing products, printed by striking Federal Labor Union No. 18545 in late 1934. Because the Company refused...
Book or Pamphlet

WEAC "Pull Together" Logo

Date: 1974
Description: Logo on a Wisconsin Education Association Council brochure related to the Hortonville teachers strike.
Manuscript

May Day Rally Flyer

Date: 1974
Description: Flyer advertising a May Day rally in support of public workers to be held at Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Local public worke...
Magazine or Periodical

We The People: Hortonville Strike

Date: 1974
Description: Front page of the labor newspaper We The People. The issue is dedicated to the teachers strike in Hortonville and features a drawing of people march...
Poster

Support Hortonville Teachers

Date: 04 1974
Description: Poster advertising a picket and rally in support of striking Hortonville teachers to be held at the State Department of Public Instruction building at 126 ...
Book or Pamphlet

The Pinkerton Labor Spy

Date: 1907
Description: Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b...
Document

Western Union Telegram to W. Green

Date: 07 12 1934
Description: Telegram received July 13 reads: "WM Green, President of American Federation of Labor = A F OF L BLDG WASHDC = Answer of Kohler Company to latest demands o...
Photograph

Western Union Telegram to W. Green

Date: 07 28 1934
Description: Telegram received July 28 reads: "WM Green = A F L BLD = Two dead, 39 shot in Kohler strike by four to five hundred deputies, troops coming, agreed to by u...
Poster

Labor History Week

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background for Labor History Week with an illustration at the bottom of a man standing near a sign that reads: "On Strike." ...

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