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Poster

Mass Meeting for Socialist Labor Party

Date: 1879
Description: Poster publicizing a socialistic labor party mass meeting in New York.
Poster

Vote for Industrial Freedom

Date: 
Description: Poster for the Socialist Labor Party. The illustration depicts hands holding down a man's face to the "Economic Grindstone." The sleeves on the three arms ...
Poster

Socialist Labor Party Poster

Date: 
Description: Socialist Labor Party poster including photograph of Arthur E. Reimer ("For President") and Caleb Harrison ("For Vice-President"). There is also an arm and...
Poster

Daniel DeLeon

Date: 1900
Description: Socialist Labor Party poster promoting Daniel DeLeon, as Governor of the State of New York.
Print

Republican Party Protecting the Working Man

Date: 1896
Description: A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man.
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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Open air lecture arranged by the Socialist Labor Party

Date: 1938-05-16
County: Rock
City: Janesville
Photograph

Labor Union Parties

Date: 02 08 1947
Description: Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee, with many activities. Shown are four children of Labor Union members, l to r: Don Dowling, Be...
Photograph

Labor Union Party

Date: 02 08 1947
Description: Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee, with many activities. Shown are four bridge players, Margaret and Ralph Soule, and Geraldine ...
Photograph

Labor Union Party

Date: 02 08 1947
Description: Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee. Russell E. Dresser, Meat Cutter Union, Oscar Mayer, Bessie Backlund, Celon Company union, C.B...
Photograph

Labor Union Party

Date: 02 08 1947
Description: Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee, with many activities. People are gathered around the buffet table. l to r: Eldon Morris, Scan...
Photograph

Labor Works For Highway Safety

Date: 1969
Description: Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan...
Photograph

UAW Children's Christmas Party

Date: 1945
Description: Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville.
Photograph

La Follette's Labor Day Address

Date: 1924
Description: Independent presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette, Sr., standing behind a radio microphone delivering a Labor Day address.
Photograph

We Saw You . . . at Labor Day Event

Date: 09 05 1960
Description: More than 300 people attend the annual Labor Day program sponsored by the Madison Federation of Labor at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. Hilton Hann...
Photograph

Greensboro Massacre Response

Date: 02 02 1980
Description: Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o...
Drawing

Socialism Graphic

Date: 
Description: Drawing depicting a person sowing seeds in furrowed ground with a cityscape in the background. An arm and hammer appear in the sky superimposed on a sun-li...
Photograph

Henry Ohl, Jr.

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Henry Ohl, Jr., general organizer/president of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, 1917-1940. He was a Socialist member of ...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and William Green

Date: 1943
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, debate a point during a Mutual Broadcasting System ra...
Poster

Kill the Bill

Date: 
Description: Handmade sign depicting Governor Walker chopping down a tree with an ax. On Walker's pants is the text: "Tea Party Republicans." On the tree is the text: "...

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