1935 · New York
New York: New York A.F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, 1935. 8.5x11 inch handbill, toned with some staining, old paper tape reinforcement to the verso behind closed edge tears. Year penciled at bottom edge. The Committee was a rank-and-file Communist group originally created to build support within the AFL for the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill. This leaflet states, "The tremendous one day strike of the teamsters has been called off. The purpose of the strike was to defeat the injunction issued by Justice Humphrey. The injunction which discriminates against union labor, interferes with the unity of waterfront workers in the fight for improved conditions and which resulted already in the firing of teamsters for no reason.... The final decision on the injunction is yet to be made by Justice Humphrey in Kings County Court, Brooklyn, on Monday, February 4th. The calling off of the teamsters strike does not help the battle to defeat the injunction. Just because the strike has been called off, the fight must go on more energetically than before in order to rescind the injunction opinion of the Courts." Goes on to recommend actions by Teamsters and Longshoremen to protest the injunction. (Inventory #: 321310)