(Labor Movement)
Mass Meeting!; 4 Killed, 200 Injured, 650 Arrests in San Francisco . .
American League Against War and Fascism, San Francisco: 1934
Small handbill leaflet, 3-1/2 x 6 in. Announcement of a rally held in the wake of the Bay Area longshoremen's strike in 1934 featuring speakers Sam Darcy, Communist Party candidtatr for Governor in California; Leo Gallagher, labor lawyer and candidate for a seat on California's Supreme Court; and poet and women's right activist Sara Bard Field.
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