Philadelphia Chapter National Association Of Fashion Designers & Accessory Designers (NAFAD) Presents A FASHION SALUTE TO NASSAU The Ten Best Dressed Women in the Philadelphia Area Sunday, May 7, 1967

NAFAD Fashion Show Souvenir Program, published by the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association Of Fashion Designers & Accessory Designers, Philadelphia, PA, 1967. First edition, 1st printing. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, side staple bound, 9" x 6", 24 pages, illustrated with b&w portraits and advertisements. VERY GOOD CONDITION: small penned numbers on the front covers upper margin, covers have light wear, internally tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce material documenting a fashion show held by the African American fashion trade, none located in OCLC collections worldwide.

The National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers (NAFAD) played a pivotal role in raising awareness of Black American Designers. NAFAD chapters staged local fashion events to showcase the design work of its members and earn cash for student scholarships.

African Americans have participated in the fashion industry in various roles, including as designers of men's, women's and children's wear, dressmakers, seamstresses, milliners and influencers. They have found ways to build spaces for their creative expressions, even when they have faced intensively challenging circumstances such as prejudices and discrimination based on race, gender and classism. NAFAD was a trade group founded in 1949 in New York City for Black Fashion Professionals who had been largely blocked from entree into the fashion industry. Founded by Mary McCleod Bethune and Jeanetta Welch Brown, both of whom were actively involved in championing professional opportunities for Black Women. NAFAD supported black fashion professionals with networking, responding to discrimination at work and in general, helping them navigate the fashion industry.

Archive of RADICAL FINNISH SOCIALIST FEDERATION of FITCHBURG, MASS. 1914-1922

Includes:

80+ MANUSCRIPT PAGES (and two typed pages) describing STRIKES, CALLS TO ACTION, RED FLAG MARCHES, LABOR PROTESTS, POLICE BRUTALITY, etc. + 4 pages with over 60 SIGNATURES of FINNISH SOCIALIST FEDERATION MEMBERS including OSKARI TOKOI (see his Wikipedia page), and an interesting page from 1933 indicating this written archive may have come from a "time-capsule".

The 80+ manuscript pages (and 2 typed pages) are an important "I was there" look at many of the strikes, rallies, marches, speeches, battles with police, etc, that took place during the Finnish Socialist Federation's most radical era 1914-1922. The authors of these written "reports" are unstated. Many seem to be in the same hand. They are written in English.

The 60 signatures are on 4 pages with a "RAIVAAJA PUBLISHING COMPANY / FITCHBURG, MASS" letterhead, undated but likely c.1930. ("Raivaaja was a Finnish-language newspaper published from 1905 to 2009 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, by Raivaaja Publishing Company. For the first three decades of its existence the publication was closely associated with the Socialist Party of America." - Wikipedia)

Did these handwritten reports come from a Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Finnish Labor Society time capsule??? Maybe. There is a typed page, in Finnish, on "Finnish Labor Society SAIMA" letterhead dated 1933 that precedes the rest of the pages in the binder, which states (translated by Google):

******"That part of the Finnish people, who in the storms of time moved to this city of Fitchburg, during the last decades, would like to preserve for posterity some incidents from their phase-rich journey. As can be seen from the contents of the box, they were Finnish migrants, mostly young men and women who hoped that on this continent they would be able to partake of the warmer sunshine of a happy day than in the country of their birth. However, hard work was a condition of livelihood here as well, and that is why many of them became attached to the labor movement, whose struggles are described in detail in the various reports herein.

The box will be buried in the ground on Thursday evening, May 11, 1933, in a place known as Saima Park. Naturally no one knows when it will be found, but it is supposed to remain in the ground for several generations and after emerging will be solid material from the past for researchers of the Labor cause. In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, May 11, 1933. / Lauri Moilanen / Saima scribe of the Finnish Workers' Association."******

Each of the manuscript pages, the signature pages, and the "time capsule" page, are in plastic sleeves and collected in a three ring binder.

GOOD Condition: The signature pages and the "time capsule" page all have rust stains at the top, likely from metal clips or pins. The manuscript pages are all in remarkably good condition, bright, clean and clear. Like they've been archivally stored in a time capsule or something!

About the FINNISH SOCIALIST FEDERATION (from the University of Minnesota Libraries website:

******"The Saima Workers' Society of Fitchburg, Mass. was founded in 1894 as a Finnish workers' organization. In 1905, it joined the Socialist Party, thus making it the oldest Finnish Socialist chapter in the United States. In 1906, it joined the Finnish Socialist Federation, and by 1924-1925 was the largest such chapter in the country, with over five hundred members.******

Punk embodied juvenile delinquent culture with a psychobilly edginess that manifest in the late 1970s as herds of disaffected kids dealt with the social disintegration they saw around them. Stapled to poles and pasted up around town punk flyers are rare since they were made to be thrown away, totally unique cultural artifacts.

Three pieces of original punk ephemera from the late 1970s:

One Flyer from the Vacaville, California punk band THE PANTIES who played gigs all over the East Bay -

Flyer, paper, printed on one side, 8.5" x 11" inches. GOOD CONDITION: horizontal fold, numerous pinholes in the margins and in the image, small droplet stain in bottom margin, small edgewear, penned notations by band member Jim on the front, relevant penned note on verso, overall remains solid and bright.

Punch-out DEVO postcard from the cover of their second studio album Duty Now for the Future - color postcard, 9.25" x 6.25" inches: GOOD CONDITION: corner creasing, pinholes in the margins, age toning, penned Christmas notations, names and addresses on the verso but remains solid and bright.

Johnny Rotten themed printed birthday invitation - printed card, 5" x 4" inches folded: FAIR CONDITION: pinholes, tearing in the top margin, staining and wear, but remains extant which is pretty uncommon.

Original Clash Promotional Poster circa 1978. Halftone, printed on paper, issued rolled, 27" x 20" inches.

From a 1978 black & white photograph taken by Pennie Smith during a photo session for the promotion of the band's second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). A Russian propaganda poster was used as the photo's backdrop. GOOD CONDITION: surface creasing and scratches, egdewear, touch of waviness, overall a solid and bright vintage punk poster. Will be sent rolled in sturdy mailing tube. Uncommon.

Formed in London in 1976 The Clash was one of the most successful bands from Punks first wave in the 1970s, early Clash gigs were notoriously violent establishing them as a leading voice of Punk Rock. Clash members were vocalist Joe Strummer, guitarist Mick Jones, bass player Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon.

Artist Pennie Smith (b. 1949) is one of the United Kingdoms most acclaimed rock photographers. She created one of the most iconic Punk Rock photographs ever, the cover image for London Calling by The Clash.

THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service Vol. V, No. 20, Saturday, November 14, 1970 Published by The Black Panther Party Ministry of Information, San Francisco, California. First edition, first printing. Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale.

Newspaper format, 17.5" x 11.5" folded as issued, 20 pages, printed on newsprint in pink and black ink, illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs, portraits and Black Power graphics, the rear cover has an intense image by revolutionary Black Panther artist Emory Douglas (b. 1943). VERY GOOD CONDITION: the front cover has a neatly penned phone number in the fore-edge margin, light wear to the horizontal fold, and a small tear at the bottom spine fold, the pages have some light age toning, and light edgewear, otherwise solid, bright, clean, unmarked and the iconic Emory graphic on the rear cover remains very bright. An important and hard to find cultural artifact.

Emblematic of the Black Power Movement, The Black Panther is a visually iconic provocative weekly newspaper that politically engaged readers with BPP ideology, current events, and issues facing Black Americans that were central to the party's Ten Point Platform and Program, spotlighting abuse and killing by police, incarceration, the right to self-defense, inequalities of the justice system, and solidarity with social justice organizations and international human rights movements.

THE MOVEMENT - DOCUMENTARY OF A STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY. Text by LORRAINE HANSBERRY. Filled with PHOTOS of SIXTIES CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLES with POLICE and Others.

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1964. FIRST PRINTING, so stated on the copyright page.

COPY of the Friends of SNCC, with its ink stamp on the half-title page: "Long Beach Area / Friends of S.N.C.C." The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee worked to assist Black activists in their struggle for equality in the sixties

AND

COPY of LELAND COLE, with his signature and date "1965" on the inside front cover. Leland Cole was a LEAD INVESTIGATOR for the ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION. He was reportedly responsible for stirring up lots of white anger.

Softcovers, 8.5" x 11", 127 pages. ILLUSTRATED throughout with historic b&w photographs.

GOOD CONDITION, the covers have shelf-rubs, superficial scrapes, edge, spine-end and corner-tip wear, and general signs of handling, but remain sturdy and bright; internally the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy of this important work.

SCARCE with the ASSOCIATION to the SNCC and to MISSISSIPPI'S SEGREGATIONIST SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION.

About the SNCC (from Wikipedia):

******The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee "SNCC" was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, the Committee sought to coordinate and assist direct-action challenges to the civic segregation and political exclusion of African Americans. From 1962, with the support of the Voter Education Project, SNCC committed to the registration and mobilization of black voters in the Deep South.******

About the MISSISSIPPI SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION (from Wikipedia):

******The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was a state agency in Mississippi tasked with fighting integration and controlling civil rights activism...The Sovereignty Commission spied on and conspired against civil rights activists and organized pressure and economic retaliation against those who supported the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Principal investigators for the Sovereignty Commission were Virgil Downing, LELAND COLE, Fulton Tutor, Edgar C. Fortenberry, and James Mohead. They frequently relied upon informants, who were often compensated as much as $500 a month.******

About LELAND COLE (from "The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi", by Emilye Crosby, University of North Carolina Press, 2006 - pages 204 and 227.):

******Despite Charles Evers's early January offer to discuss a settlement [to an African-American led boycott], whites opened the New Year with repression, not negotiation. SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION INVESTIGATOR LELAD COLE, who George Walker observed "was constantly stirring up the people in the community," initiated a high-pressure campaign to undermine the Evers' led boycott.

The presence of civil rights lawyers let white officials know that others were monitoring their actions. For example, in January 1967, when Sovereignty Commission investigator LELAND COLE was using widespread arrests to try to break the Port Gibson boycott, he was concerned enough about the Lawyers' Committee to report that the "arrests are valid and we see that each case is built by enough witnesses to withstand the defense put up by civil rights lawyers from Jackson."******

MAI 68 - Archive of JOURNALS and HANDBILLS PUBLISHED DURING the MAY-JUNE FRENCH STUDENT-WORKER REVOLUTION that Changed French Society forever.

(1) NINE ISSUES of ACTION - The French Resistance Newspaper created during the STUDENT-WORKER REVOLUTIONARY STRIKES that for a period shut down the French Economy and Government. Newspapers, mostly single-fold broadsheets to make 4 pages, folded in half horizontally as issued, unfolded front page measures 14.5x21 inches (37x53 cm). Seven of the issues were published in June 1968 and two in July 1968. The ACTION newspaper was published from May 1968 to June 1969. It is the issues that were published in May and June 1968, during the Student-Worker strikes and actions, that are the most difficult to find.

(2) TEN FLYERS / HANDBILLS calling on STUDENTS and WORKERS to take part in the REVOLUTIONARY STRIKES. Single sheets, Most 8x10 inches (20x25.5 cm). Six were printed in May 1968, one in April 1968, one in June 1968, and two are undated.

(3) SERVIR LE PEUPLE. "SPÉCIAL 1er MAI / 32 PAGES / Sommaire en page 3". Published on MAY 1, 1968 - the beginning of the Student and Worker Revolutionary Protests and Strikes in France. Newspaper, folded in half horizontally as issued, 11x16.5 inches (28x42 cm) unfolded. This special edition on MAI 68, published on May 1, 1968, is an important artifact of the 1968 French upheaval.

(4) TWO ISSUES of L'ENRAGÉ published in June 1968. L'Enragé was a satirical journal founded by Jean-Jacques Pauvert and produced in France during the May-June 68 events. Eight pages, printed on newsprint paper, 9x12 inches (23x30.5 cm

FAIR to GOOD CONDITION: All the issues and handbills have edgewear including chips and closed tears, folds, creases, toning, some holes at the folds, etc.; but all are complete and holding together.

The lasting social impact of what became known as MAI 68 was substantial, recent political events to the contrary!

MAI 68 - About the MAY 1968 FRENCH STUDENT & WORKER REVOLUTION (from Wikipedia):

******Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which have since become known as May 68 (French: Mai 68), the economy of France came to a halt. The protests reached a point that made political leaders fear civil war or revolution; the national government briefly ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to West Germany on the 29th.

The unrest began with a series of far-left student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism and traditional institutions. Heavy police repression of the protesters led France's trade union confederations to call for sympathy strikes, which spread far more quickly than expected to involve 11 million workers, more than 22% of France's population at the time. The movement was characterized by spontaneous and decentralized wildcat disposition. It was the largest general strike ever attempted in France, and the first nationwide wildcat general strike.

The events of May 1968 had a lasting impact and continue to influence French society. The period is considered a cultural, social and moral turning point in the nation's history.******

About ACTION Newspaper (from Wikipedia / translated by Google):

******ACTION was an activist newspaper created at the beginning of May 68. The first issue, released on May 7, 1968, launched a call for a "GENERAL STRIKE AND PERMANENT INSURRECTION". The strikes and insurrections that followed in May and June 1968 shook France to its core.******

Celebrity Criminal and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah built bombs, helped kidnap Patti Hearst and spent decades on the run posing as upper class housewife Sara Jane Olson.

WANTED BY THE FBI: KATHLEEN ANN SOLIAH

Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1978. Broadside, printed on cream card stock, 8" x 8", horizontal fold for mailing, with list of FBI offices on the verso, illustrated in b&w with two portraits of Soliah, her ten finger prints, and signature. VERY GOOD CONDITION: two pea-size hole punches in the upper margin as issued for placement in a law enforcement binder, lightly affecting text, light signs of age and wear, overall solid, bright and clean. An excellent example.

The Symbionese Liberation Army was a radical cult advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. In 1973 they murdered Oakland Superintendent of Schools Marcus Foster, in 1974 they kidnapped publishing heiress Patty Hearst who apparently got Stockholm syndrome and indelibly became the semi automatic brandishing Tania during an SLA fundraiser at a bank, and a few months later they got into a huge shootout with the Los Angeles Cops. The surviving members were the subject of the largest FBI manhunt since Dillinger.

RIGHT ON! A Documentary on Student Protest by Maryl Levine, John Naisbitt, Graphic Design by David L. Burke

Published by Bantam Books, New York, London, Toronto, 1970. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 7" x 4", 249 + (7) pages, graphically illustrated throughout with b&w photographs, illustrations and stylized text. GOOD Condition: light shelfwear and some creases to the covers, the spine has a few creases but the binding remains sturdy, 2 penned remainder lines on bottom page edges (edge of the closed book), internally the upper corner has some light shorelining, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, respectable copy.

Illustrated in a graphic style similar to the influential Marshall McLuhan book "The Medium Is the Massage." A book design classic "Right On!" is a powerful visual collage of black & white photographs, graphics and text that captures the radical student protests of 1969 from fights for civil rights, Black Power, student power, Black studies programs and racial diversity to anti Vietnam War rallies and altercations with police. "Black studies are inevitable. Period."

This vintage counterculture monograph is based on a 1969 study of over 200 US college campuses conducted by the Urban Research Corporation of Chicago, a private commercial organization that monitored contemporary trends and prepared reports for a range of groups and institution. These protests occurred on campuses of all sizes and in every region of the country, but most occurred in large universities with more than 1,000 students.

Launched in 1977 SEARCH AND DESTROY was the very first Punk Rock New Wave Zine to emerge from San Francisco's nascent Punk Rock Scene. A visually arresting Punk Zine that immediately set the standard for D.I.Y. punk graphics, attitude and aesthetics. An iconic publication featuring the most influential underground punk artists through interviews, photographs, collages, and artwork. Jello Biafra thought it was the greatest underground zine ever.

Founded and published by original Blue Cheer keyboardist V. Vale while working at City Lights Bookstore, Vale got his original funding from Allan Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. All the most important (and some forgotten) UK and US Punk and New Wave bands are represented including the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Nuns, Pere Ubu, Crime, Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Screamers, Clash, Throbbing Gristle, Buzzcocks, Talking Heads, DEVO, Weirdos, Suicide, Avengers, Alternative TV, The Damned, Blondie, Weirdos, Dead Boys, The Cramps, Siouxsie & The Banshees, DNA, Sleepers, Zeros, Chrome, Cabaret Voltaire, Mutants, Patti Palladin, Helen Wheels, The Slits, and so many more. SEARCH AND DESTROY also bridged the punk scene with literary figures, visual artists, and filmmakers who influenced and were influenced by punk, surrealism and dada including Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, John Waters, David Lynch, Bruce Conner, Russ Meyer, Diane Di Prima, Lou Reed, Steve Jones, Vivienne Westwood, and Nico Ordway. SEARCH AND DESTROY ceased publication with issue #11 in 1979, but in 1980 it morphed into RE/SEARCH which ran three punk issues in the same style. Afterwards the publication completely changed into a glossy book form featuring underground and counterculture topics.

Named for the Stooge's proto punk anthem, SEARCH AND DESTROY remains one of the most important, vibrant, and influential periodicals to emerge from punk. A Complete run of this seminal punk zine.

SEARCH & DESTROY: New Wave Cultural Research #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, Rebel Youth Culture #10, Future History #11, 1977-1979. Published and Edited by V. Vale, San Francisco, and RE/SEARCH #1, #2, #3, 1980-1981. Published by Rough Trade and Edited by V. Vale, San Francisco.

Newspaper format zine, 17.5" x 11.5", stiffly folded in half as issued and distributed, from 16 to 30 pages each, richly illustrated throughout with b&w photographs and punk imagery. VERY GOOD Condition with some typical toning here and there mostly to the covers and margins, occasional wear, small tearing at the folds, overall a bright, clean, unmarked and sound complete set. Search & Destroy Issue #1 is the second state, lacking the red stamping, issue #10 is a 1988 reprint, and RE/search issues #1 and #3 are 1988 reprints, the rest are original first editions/printings.

PACK RAT was the underground newspaper published by the Berkeley High School Student Union (BHSSU) to advocate for radical educational and societal reforms. Using the typesetting machines at the Black Panther Party's national headquarters in Berkeley, the students covered antiwar activities, racial discrimination, women's liberation, student rights, and other contemporary topics. When the BHSSU tried to distribute the paper on campus, its members were suspended. When the BHSSU's activities expanded beyond Berkeley, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a file on the group in June 1970, which was closed when the students graduated.

PACK RAT Volume I, Issue I October 1969

Published by the Berkeley High School Student Union, Berkeley, California, 1969. First printing. Softcover newspaper, 17.5" z 11.25", 8 pages, folded as issued, illustrated with b&w photographs and graphics. This issue features articles on the Black Panthers, police violence, Malcom X, the Vietnam War, women's portrayal in the the mass media, protests, conspiracies, and more. A scarce example of youth participation in antiwar activism and its integration with student rights. Only 19 in the OCLC. GOOD Condition: Covers are toned, have several stiff creases, and a 2" closed tear at the front edge, otherwise a bright, clean, and unmarked.

This is a landmark civil rights trial in which the plaintiff claims to have been unconstitutionally subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by the conditions at Soledad prison in 1965.

Robert Charles Jordan, Jr., Plaintiff v. C. J. Fitzharris et al, Defendants. Published by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, September 6, 1966. Memorandum Opinion and Order by U.S. District Court Chief Judge George B. Harris. Legal document, stapled bound typewritten sheets, 8.5" x 11", 22 pages. VERY GOOD Condition: light age toning, a small paperclip stain, tiny edge tears to rear cover, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

In 1966 a Black prisoner named Robert Charles Jordan, Jr. filed a lawsuit against the Superintendent of Soledad prison charging "cruel and unusual" punishment. What was surprising about this case was that the court found in Jordan's favor. Mr. Jordan was locked in solitary confinement in a "strip cell" at Soledad Prison. The complaint goes on to detail many more inhumane conditions and treatment. After the court ruled that Jordan had in fact been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, the Superintendent of Soledad, Cletus Fitzharris, remained at the head of the prison for 5 more years. He was then promoted to deputy director of the California Department of Corrections. Robert Charles Jordan Jr. was born in 1939 and was 27 years old when he filed this case. He had been convicted at age 19 of assault and has remained, as of 2020, incarcerated in a California prison. The Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s pushed (at national, and local levels and in legislatures and courts) to recognize that the government disproportionately policed, incarcerated, and oppressed people of color and the economically disadvantaged. Court litigation records like this detail the horrific treatment incarcerated people continue to endure in prison.

FOR PEACE IN INDOCHINA, END MILITARY AID.

POSTER, 2 color offset printing, unmounted, 17x23 inches. Art by Lucia Vernarelli, with her printed signature on the right side of the image, and her artist's monograph on the left side of the image.

The full text of this poster reads: "FOR PEACE IN INDOCHINA, END MILITARY AID - IMPLEMENT PARIS PEACE ACCORDS PROVISION FOR THREE PART COALITION GOVERNMENT AND PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN & RECONSTRUCTION AID THRU U.N. AGENCIES - may 4 thru 11."

This poster was published by a large coalition of peace groups supporting the Paris Peace Accords to end the war in Vietnam, c.1973.

The Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973, however the U.S. Congress never ratified the accords and the treaty was broken numerous times. The U.S. ended up fleeing Vietnam in 1975.

NEAR FINE CONDITION. Just a touch of handling and edgewear. The poster will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

A lovely, historic poster documenting the movement to end the War in Vietnam.

Scarce Original Palestinian Poster published by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, circa 1988. With graphic Intifada Middle East Arab Israeli Conflict iconography.

An international association of Maoist Marxist Leninist revolutionary parties, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (circa 1984-2007) was a steadfast supporter of the Palestinian Intifada resistance movement in the West Bank and Gaza.

Off-set lithograph on newsprint, large format, 34" x 22.75". GOOD CONDITION: Folded, tiny tears where the folds meet at the center, toning to the edges and folds, tiny stab holes down the left margin about 3" apart, light edge wear, overall a solid, bright copy.

In Arabic and Spanish. Quite scarce, I have only seen an on-line version collected in The Palestine Poster Project Archives, an English and a French/Turkish edition of this poster were also printed.

Palestina:

Que el 'levantamiento de

piedras' prepare el terreno

de la guerra popular.

Movimiento Revolucionario Internacionalista

(Palestine: Let the 'uprising of stones'

pave the way for the people's war.

The martyrs of the stone uprising is the path of the peoples war

Revolutionary Internationalist Movement)

MODERN UTOPIAN: COMMUNES, JAPAN. By Richard Fairfield, with Photographs by Consuelo Sandoval, Sankichi Nomoto & Mamo Kato.

"Material on Japanese communes was compiled from personal experience and interviews in the communes themselves with added material and insights from other writers and visitors, including Meyer Steinbach, M.D.; Noboyoshi Tezuka, Michael Howden, and staff of the Japan Kibbutz Association."

Japanese Communes in this book include: Itto-en Community; New Village; Ohoyamato Ajisai; Shinkyo Commune; Yamagishi-kai Association; Hokkaido Yamagishi-ism; The Tribe; and more. (I wonder if Haruki Murakami based the commune in his book 1Q84 on one of these?)

Published by Alternative Foundation, San Francisco, 1972. First Edition. ISBN: 0912976020

GOOD condition, the covers have some light toning and corner creases; internally just lightly used, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

RARE and interesting look at the Japanese Utopian Communes of the early 1970s.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a strong ally of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and had worked with Union President David Dubinsky on many important issues. JFK's assassination affected everyone and the editors of Justice printed a Memorial Edition which also included a Message of Support to Lyndon Baines Johnson from Dubinsky. JUSTICE was the official publication of the ILGWU from 1919 to 1995.

JUSTICE: International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. Volume 45, Issue 23, December 1, 1963. Published by the ILGWU, Jersey City, New Jersey, David Dubinsky President, Leon Stein Editor. Newspaper, 4 large leaves vertically folded into 8 pages, 16.5" x 11.5". Folded horizontally as issued. This original 1963 newspaper is in VERY GOOD CONDITION: small mailing label pasted to front page margin with penned number beneath, wear and small tears to the vertical fold but holding well, toning as normal and some light signs of age and use, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A scarce JFK Memorial issue of this pioneering woman's labor union journal.

This JFK Memorial Edition features a full page portrait of JFK with a black memorial border on the front page, inside, within a black memorial border is President Kennedy's Inaugural Address delivered on January 20, 1962 with a b&w photograph of him speaking from the White House balcony. This is followed by the text of JFK's speech before the Convention of the American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFLCIO) in New York City on November 15, 1963, also with a black memorial border and b&w photo of him speaking. The back page shows a b&w photo of LBJ and a Message of Support in his new role as President of the United States sent to him by union leader David Dubinsky.

Founded in 1900, ILGWU was one of the largest and most significant labor unions in the American Labor Movement and one of the first with a primarily female membership. It's role in the history of women and immigrant Jewish and Italian women continues to be relevant today. Justice was published in English, Italian, Spanish, and Yiddish with much variation in content.

***** About the ILGWU from the Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives Cornell University Library:

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women's garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the "new unionism," the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Twentieth Century: the shirtwaist makers' strike of 1909 in New York City and the cloak makers' strike of 1910 in Chicago. The union also tried to adapt to the fragmented and unstable nature of the industry. It adopted the "protocol of peace," a system of industrial relations that attempted to ensure stability and limit strikes and production disruption by providing for an arbitration system to resolve disputes.

The ILGWU exemplified the European-style social unionism of its founding members. They pursued bread and butter issues but provided educational opportunities, benefits, and social programs to union members as well. In 1919, the ILGWU became the first American union to negotiate an unemployment compensation fund that was contributed to by its employers. The ILGWU also pioneered in the establishment of an extremely progressive health care program for its members which included not only regional Union Health Centers but also a resort for union workers, known as Unity House. The Union also had an imaginative and pioneering Education Department which not only trained workers in traditional union techniques, but provided courses in citizenship and the English language.