Item #204847 Report:; Independent Political Action for Organized Labor. . Labor Movement.

Report:; Independent Political Action for Organized Labor. . .

San Francisco: International Longshoreman's Association, November 21, 1936. Mimeographed broadsheet, on two sides of a single legal-sized leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Folded; one-word pencil notation and slight wrinkle to upper corner. Item #204847

Two page report from the ILA's Local 36-79 committee looking at the multi-union effort to establish a national Labor Party. Includes parageaphs on the particular trade unions invovled; the cooperation of Labor and Progressive Forces; the role of Labor's Non-Partisan League founded by John L Lewis and CIO leaders; a test case in the recent elections in New York State; and the spreading desire for political action in the union movement.

Price: $150.00

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