Description: OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS 1 1/4 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE GREAT SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING. RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL. Check out my other Political - Social Protest and Cause items!I COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES. PLEASE WAFOR OR REQUEST AN INVOICE WITH REDUCED SHIPPING CHARGE BEFORE PAYING. This pin was issued circa 1940s to members of the then newly formed International Union of Electrical Radio & Machine Workers (IUE), a Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) Union.The IUE grew out of a dispute in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). The UE had been founded in 1936 and was given the first Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) charter in 1938. As in many of the new CIO unions organized in the 1930s, the membership and leaders of UE included a variety of radicals, including socialists and communists, as well as New Deal liberals and Catholics. Concerned about the rise of fascism, these diverse forces put aside differences to form a "Popular Front." The UE's first President was James Carey, a follower of Catholic Social teaching; and Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak was allied with the Communist Party. In 1941, however, the Communist faction moved to take total control and voted Carey out as president. Opposition emerged with Socialist and New Deal elements. The Catholic element worked with the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists.Between 1946 and 1949, the "right wing" (as the anti-Communist faction was referred to) led an effort to win back leadership of the UE. While the anti-Communists built support, with the expulsion of the UE from the CIO in 1949, a new tactic was used of forming a new union – the IUE – with Carey as its leader. With the support of the CIO, over 300,000 former UE members joined the IUE in its first three years. By the mid-1950s, the IUE had easily overtaken the UE as the dominant union in electrical manufacturing.This protest pinback button pin or badge relates such themes and topics as peace, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, anti draft, anti war, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, women's rights, left wing, liberal, progressive political movements. SHIPPING CHARGE TO DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES IS $5.50 OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES SHIPPING IS THROUGH EBAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. EBAY SETS THE TERMS AND CHARGES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST
Price: 14.95 USD
Location: Ojai, California
End Time: 2024-11-18T01:09:07.000Z
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