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LABOR'S NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE ROOSEVELT for PRESIDENT
Item # 10470
Regular Price: $32.00
Special Price: $27.00
Pinback button promoting Franklin D. Roosevelt for president, c. 1936-1940. 1 1/4" cello in excellent condition with a PHILA. BADGE CO. inscription around the curl. Learn More -
IBEW for OBAMA BIDEN INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Item # 9543
$14.95Paper poster promoting Barack Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president, 2008. 16 x 24", in excellent condition, and distributed by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker (IBEW). Learn More -
BROTHERHOOD RAILROAD TRAINMEN TRIENNIAL CONVENTION 1916
Item # 8324
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $44.00
Souvenir notepad with celluloid covers bound by brass rings promoting the city of Toledo, OH, and issued for the Triennial Convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in Detroit, MI, 1916. First interior pages are printed with the "Dance Program". The remainder pages are lined, and there is but one short entry, in pencil, describing some rather uneventful goings on. 2 1/2 x 4" overall and in excellent condition. Whitehead & Hoag is identified as the maker on the reverse. Learn More -
B. L. E. GRAND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 1912 HARRISBURG
Item # 8132
Regular Price: $40.00
Special Price: $32.00
Delegate badge from the 10th Biennial Convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Harrisburg, 1912. Measures 1 1/2 x 3 1/4" overall. Enameled brass pinbar in the shape of a train wheel exhibits some enamel loss on the Mexican flag, otherwise excellent. Learn More -
SMWIA SUPPORTS MONDALE/FERRARO
Item # 7595
Regular Price: $39.00
Special Price: $19.00
Pinback button promoting Walter Mondale for president and Geraldine Ferraro for vice president, 1984. 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition distributed by the Sheet Metal Workers International Association. Learn More -
F. A. & I. U. UNITY
Item # 6769
Regular Price: $145.00
Special Price: $115.00
Inscribed white metal shield pinback promoting the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in the 1870s and 1880s and later moved into politics under the banner of the People's Party. 7/8 x 7/8" pin in excellent condition. Learn More -
Write Today STOP ANTI-LABOR LAWS
Item # 6755
Regular Price: $48.00
Special Price: $40.00
Pinback button urging citizens to pick up the pen in action against anti-labor laws. 1" cello is excellent, with obscure San Francisco maker Olivier Printing Co. identified along the curl. Learn More -
I AM A KENNEL DOG VOTING DEMOCRAT
Item # 6485
Regular Price: $155.00
Special Price: $77.00
Pair of pinback buttons supporting the Democratic Party, and likely promoting Adlai Stevenson for president, 1956. The smaller example is a 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with a Bastian Bros. Rochester, NY inscription around the curl. The larger example is a 3 1/2" cello in excellent condition. These buttons were made in response to a clearly anti-labor comment by Charlie Wilson, former President of General Motors and Secretary of Defense under President Eisenhower. In 1954, speaking about the plight of unemployed workers in Detroit, Wilson said: "Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs. The bird dogs like to get out and hunt their food, but the kennel dogs just sit on the haunches and yelp." The Democrats jumped on the comment and produced these pinbacks. Learn More -
IBU-ILWU RONALD REAGAN IS A UNION BUSTING S.O.B.
Item # 3952
$8.95Pinback button disparaging President Ronald Reagan and his anti-labor policies, circa mid-1980's. 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition distributed in Washington State by the Inland Boatmen's Union / International Longshore & Warehouse Union. Learn More -
NEVADA LABOR FOR MONDALE
Item # 3871
$12.95Pinback button promoting Walter Mondale for president, 1984. Scarce 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN WA. inscription around the curl. Learn More -
I'm going for MONDALE MARCH 13 Are you? U.F.C.W.
Item # 3870
$14.95Pinback button promoting Walter Mondale for president, 1984. Scarce 2 1/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN WA. inscription around the curl. Distributed by the United Food & Commercial Workers Union. Learn More -
LABOR FOR MONDALE WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
Item # 3869
$8.95Pinback button promoting Walter Mondale for president, 1984. Scarce 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN WA. inscription around the curl. Distributed by the Washington State American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations. Learn More -
LABOR FOR DUKAKIS
Item # 3863
$6.95Pinback button promoting Michael Dukakis for president, 1988. 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN WA. inscription around the curl. Blue stars variety. Learn More -
LABOR FOR DUKAKIS
Item # 3862
$6.95Pinback button promoting Michael Dukakis for president, 1988. 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN WA. inscription around the curl. Red stars variety. Learn More -
LABOR FOR DUKAKIS
Item # 3861
$6.95Pinback button promoting Michael Dukakis for president, 1988. 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN WA. inscription around the curl. Learn More -
CLINTON GORE TEAMSTERS J.C. 13
Item # 3854
$6.95Pinback button promoting Bill Clinton for president and Al Gore for vice president, 1992-1996. 1 3/4 x 2 3/4" cello in excellent condition. (Note the map of Missouri within the O in GORE). Distributed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joint Council #13. Learn More -
AFSCME / CLINTON
Item # 3852
$2.95Pinback button promoting Bill Clinton for president, 1992-1996. 1 3/4" cello in excellent condition with G.H. STAMP WORKS ABERDEEN, WA inscription around the curl. Distributed by the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Learn More -
SEIU SUPPORTS CLINTON & GORE
Item # 3847
$3.95Pinback button promoting Bill Clinton for president and Al Gore for vice president, 1992-1996. 2 1/2" cello in excellent condition distributed by the Service Employees International Union. Learn More -
FREE MOONEY AND BILLINGS LABOR'S MARTYRS
Item # 1182
$22.95Pinback button urging freedom for Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, circa 1916. 1" cello in excellent condition with Walter N. Brunt Co. San Francisco backpaper. Both men were political activists and labor leaders who were accused of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing in 1916. Mooney served 22 years in prison before finally being pardoned in 1939. Learn More -
IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH LABOR-OMNIA-VINCIT
Item # 446
$12.95Pinback button supporting American labor, c. 1930's. 1 1/4" cello in excellent condition with patriotic graphics. Labor-Omnia-Vincit is Latin for "Work Conquers All". Learn More -
SAVE 28 INNOCENT UNION MEN I.L.A.
Item # 445
$12.95Pinback button advocating the release of 28 members of the International Longshoremen's Association arrested during a Portland docks strike in 1934. 1" cello in excellent condition made by Bastian Bros. Co. in Rochester, NY. Learn More -
AFSCME's TICKET Dukakis Bentsen '88
Item # 119
$12.95Pinback button promoting Michael Dukakis for president and Lloyd Bentsen for vice president, 1988. Jugate photos with "AFSCME's (American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employee's) TICKET". 1 1/2" and in excellent condition. Learn More
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