Search Results: Labor from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

New York: Workers Book Shop, circa [1939]., [1939].. Good. - 12mo [approximately 4-3/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The binding is lightly soiled. The bottom corner of the front wrap is heavily creased & its bottom edge is lightly chipped at the spine. The top corner of the rear wrap is torn & heavily creased. Pages [1]-[62] including wraps. The bottom page corners through page 8 are creased & a few rear top page corners are lightly bumped. Good. Earl Robinson writes in his one-page introduction: "This booklet 'America Sings' is a compilation of fifty songs, old and new, which have been and are being sung in the American labor movement." No music is included. Robinson says that readers will know the tunes and that most of them can be found in another Workers Book Shop publication "Songs of the People". A brief note gives the origin of each song. Among the contents are Maurice Sugar's well-known labor anthem "Sit Down".The Workers Book Shop was a center… Read More

(Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, 1919).. 1919).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. There are 2 areas of light soiling to the front wrap & the top edge of the rear wrap is slightly darkened. 21 pages. Very good.

New York: Mayer Shoenfeld, 1919., 1919.. Very good. - Tall narrow 16mo, 6 inches high by 3 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled light brown wraps titled and decorated in black on the front cover. There are minor creases to the covers. 16 pages. Near fine. Mayer Shoenfeld of the United Brotherhood of Tailors led a strike of tailors in 1896. On the inside cover, Shoenfeld writes "This booklet is not on sale. I am talking to be heard: not for hire. Read this and pass it on. It is merely a prologue - The rest to follow". This treatise was written soon after the end of the First World War which, together with the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, had taken a toll on the U.S. "A snapshot of the causes of the high cost of living necessities will show that its solution does not lie in good hearts. It lies in clear thinking. In the past five years, about eighteen million producers were either killed or disabled. About six billion dollars' worth of property, industrial and farm implements, cattle, and other… Read More

New York: (Abe Hershkowitz), 1940.. 1940.. Good. - Small quarto [12 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white self-wraps. 32 pages. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white cartoons, some of them by S. Raskin. The title page & last page are lightly soiled & the title page is detached with its front edge darkened. The last page is darkened along the spine & its bottom corner is creased & chipped. The remaining bottom page corners are bumped & there is occasional light soiling. Good. <p>The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America held a convention in New York City to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1940. This satirical "program", illustrated with cartoons, was issued on the occasion of the convention and was presumably distributed to the delegates.<p>The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the foremost union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, was founded in Chicago in 1914 as a breakaway… Read More

Circa [1930].. [1930].. Good. - A slip of paper, 2-3/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide, signed "Wm Green". The bottom right corner of the paper is creased & slightly chipped and there are a few small, very light stains to the top edge. Good. <p>William Green [1873-1952] was President of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952. He began his career as a coal miner and was president of the Ohio district of the United Mineworkers of America from 1906 to 1910.

Circa [1930].. [1930].. Good. - A 9-1/2 inch high by 6-5/8 inch wide portrait, after a drawing, in black & gray on a cream ground has been clipped from a newspaper and mounted on a slightly larger piece of tan card. Signed across the portrait in black ink at bottom right: "Margaret G. Bondfield". There is some creasing to the portrait caused by the glue with which it is mounted. There area few tiny chips to the mount with a stain & numerous pencil notes on its verso. Good. <p>British union official and labor leader Margaret Bondfield [1873- 1953] was a lifelong advocate of improving the lives of working women, working towards this goal as a labor activist, suffragist and politician. A working class woman who started her career as a shop assistant, her reform efforts eventually brought her into the highest levels of government. She served as a member of Parliament in the 1920s and in 1929 became the country's first female cabinet official when she was appointed Minister of Labor.

New York: Documentary History, ACWA, 1940.. 1940.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed orange wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled with the spine slightly faded. 691 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with a folding black-and-white plate. The top end of the fore-edge is lightly soiled. The top page corners are lightly bumped & the bottom corners of the last 30 pages are creased. There is a light vertical crease to the last few leaves. Good.

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1948.. 1948.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light green wrappers. The spine & the edges of the wraps are darkened. xxiii, [i] & 180 pages. Very good.

New York: Farlag Wochenblat, 1946., 1946.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers with a black-and-white portrait of Sidney Hillman on the front wrap. The edges of the wraps are discolored with minor soiling. There is a small crease & tear to the front wrap at the tail of the spine with a crease across the bottom outer corner of the rear wrap. 32 pages. Illustrated with a few black & white portraits. Creasing to pages 23 & 24 appear to have been caused in the printing. The page edges are toned. Good. <p>First edition of a tribute to Sidney Hillman.<p>Sidney Hillman [1887-1946] was born in Zagare, Lithuania. He left the country after the 1905 revolution, immigrating first to England and in 1907 to the United States. Starting off as a tailor's apprentice in Chicago, he moved to New York in 1914 and became the leader of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. During the Great Depression his strong support for the New Deal earned him a place on the… Read More

(Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society), circa [1948]., [1948].. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. There is some very minor soiling to the covers with a light stain to the front cover. 14 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. Very good. Reprinted from The American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 49, 1947-48.Sidney Hillman [1887-1946] was an American labor leader. He was the head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party.

South Jersey Executive Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1938.. 1938.. Very good. - Oblong octavo [10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], decorative green paper covered boards titled in dark blue on the front board. The boards are very lightly bumped with the extremities slightly darkened. 40 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. The pastedowns are somewhat darkened. Very good.

London: Cecil Palmer and Hayward, [1919 ]., [1919 ].. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial cream-colored wraps with a cover illustration in black by G. E. Lee. The pamphlet is laid into a maroon cloth-covered chemise & a matching slipcase with a gilt-lettered label on its spine. There is the remnant of a red silk tie near the spine of the chemise & the spine of the slipcase is faded. 31 pages including a full-page diagram. The corners of the wraps and the pages are lightly creased. Very good. First edition.This proposal for unionizing clerks by J. Henry Lloyd and R. E. Scouller has an introduction by GeorgeBernard Shaw and another by the Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes.