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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

i follow the @DorotheaLange account that posts her work now collected at the Library Of Congress #USLOC; so i decided to do a little #MayDay search to see what history of the United State is hiding in plain site.

i have found some real gems.

"30 hours work for 40 hours pay!"
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017646501/

#MayDay #labor #protests

Attachments:

• image of a poster, possibly lithograph showing a multiracial group of people, with left-hand fists raised, led by a Black woman looking forward and a white man in hard hat with his back to us direct the crowd. some of the marchers hold banners. one of them is the first sentence of the title. it's all done in black and red, with some grays, on a white background. INFO from LOC: Title: 30 hours work for 40 hours pay! Smash racist unemployment! Bust the wage freeze! U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! : May Day Date Created/Published: [1972?] Medium: 1 print : color ; (poster format) Reproduction Number: --- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Published without copyright notice. For information see "Yanker poster collection" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/250_yank.html). Call Number: POS 6 - US, no. 1216 (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Title from item. "1972" penned on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.