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SOLIDARNOSC - SOLIDARITY 1981 Polish Labor Union -Union support button in Polish

SOLIDARNOSC - SOLIDARITY 1981 Polish Labor Union -Union support button in Polish

$ 3.95

Availability: 10 in stock
  • Civil Rights Movement: Jobs, Justice, Social Progress
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Justice for Unions: Solidarity Day union button
  • Condition: MINT CONDITION
  • Organization: Trade Union
  • Year: 1981
  • Modified Item: No
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    Description

    VINTAGE - HISTORIC
    1981
    Size:
    1 3/4" with lockpin back
    Made
    in
    The
    U.S.A.
    SOLIDARNOSC
    SOLIDARITY was the first independent labor union in a
    Soviet Block country.  It was  founded
    in Poland in 1980.
    The union was forcibly suppressed by the
    Polish government
    in 1981. Its leader, LECH WALESA, led 17,000 workers from
    the Lenin Shipyards, in Gdansk, in a strike. This pin, with
    the logo of the Polish Solidarity Movement, was worn by
    labor unions in the United States to show "solidarity" with
    the Polish workers. American union workers wore this
    pin during
    the uprising in Gdansk.
    This is an original made by and from the collection of
    Larry Fox  "The Button Man"   (Member: A.P.I.C.)
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