Labor Issues on New York's Waterfront: A Visual History >> Discharged Workers


Discharged Workers



This flyer--obviously rushed in printing with little design elements--shows the speed with which organizers got out their message when needed. After 12,000 workers were discharged without reason, a protest meeting about it was broken up by the police. Their words say it best:

“The constitutional right of FREE SPEECH means nothing to workers unless we are strong enough to defend that right. By mass pressure we can compel the police to leave our meeting alone.”