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Turning Around Demoralization [page 1 of 2]
Title
Turning
Around
Demoralization
[page
1
of
2]
Creator
National
Caucus
of
Labor
Committees
National
Unemployed
and
Welfare
Rights
Organization
Publisher/Affiliation
National Caucus of Labor Committees
National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization
Place of Publication
United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date
1973
Notes
Calls
for:
1.)
"consolidating
the
handful
of
individuals
ready
for a
united
,
class
fight
against
austerity
and for a
workers'
government
,
"
2.)
"expanding
the
reclassification
[of
jobs]
fight
into a
class-wide
struggle
,
"
3.)
"turn
the
demoralization
of
UW
workers
around
and
spread
their
renewed
fight
to
other
sectors
of the
working
class."
Quote
from
document:
"Once
again
the
'lights'
are
going
out
in
Seattle.
But this
time
it
is
the
entire
capitalist
world
which
plunges
towards
the
depths
of a
second
Great
Depression."
Background
information:
The
statement
on
lights
going
out
in
Seattle
may
be a
reference
to a
billboard
posted
in
Seattle
that
made
international
news
in
1971.
After
the
city
suffered
massive
Boeing
layoffs
and
steep
economic
decline
,
realtors
Bob
McDonald
and
Jim
Youngren
posted
a
billboard
which
said
,
"Will
the
last
person
leaving
Seattle
turn
out
the
lights."
(Crowley
,
Walt.
Rites
of
Passage:
A
Memoir
of the
Sixties
in
Seattle.
Seattle:
University
of
Washington
Press.
p.
187)
Note
on
date:
1973
is
penciled
on
document.
Intended Purpose
Mobilization
Event publicity
Education
Issue Area
Socialism/labor
Subjects (LCTGM)
Socialism--United States
Working-class--United States
Unemployment--United States
Subjects (LCSH)
Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects
National Caucus of Labor Committees (U.S.)
National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Oganization
Olafson, Evelyn
Labor movement--United States
Geographic Coverage
United
States--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Digital Collection
Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
Digital ID Number
VTN087
Repository
University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository Collection
DS559.62
W3
Vietnam
War
Era
Ephemera
Collection
,
Box
5/5
Object Type
Flier
Physical Description
27.5
x
21.5
cm
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned from original text at 400 dpi in color, saved in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2004.
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