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Your search for Labor has returned 34 results. "Today's News"  Juneau, Alaska.  One sheet (8 1/2 x 15 inch). Mimeographed typewritten sheet printed on both sides, folded into thirds. Headline of "Today's News". circa.1920, Juneau, Alaska. Unknown author or union. The author rails against local officials in Juneau for their treatment of arrested labor protestors. Mentioned for special criticisim are Judge Wm. Holtzheimer (1883-1974) for swearing out warrants against only union rioters, and Herbert Faulkner (1870-1948) city attorney and company lobbyist. Wonderful strident union language used in composing the newsletter while mentioning the bible, 4th of July, and justice. Unusual piece of labor adjatation in early Alaska.   Condition: Very Good.  Labor Newspaper, Alaskan Labor.  (Book ID 10694)  $25.00 Constitution and By-Laws of the State Farmers and Laborers' Union of Kentucky...adopted at Lexington, November 11-15, 1890  Geo. G. Fetter Printing Co..  Louisville.  Original printed wrappers. Chipped and torn around edges, not affecting printing. Folded (as if to fit into someone's pocket) in the distant past. 48 pages. 5 3/4 by 4 3/4 inches. Consists of: Declaration of Purpose; Constitution and By-Laws; Rituals; Digest of the Laws and Enactments of the Farmers' and Laborers's Union of Kentucky   Law. Labor. Farming. Kentucky. Unions.  (Book ID 5332)  $37.50 Labor Legislation; Synopsis of Principal Measures Affecting Labor Pending Before the Fortieth Session of the California Legislature; What Does Your Senator and Assemblyman Propose to Do With Them? (cover title)  California State Federation of Labor.  San Francisco.  1913.  Illustrated Wrappers.  8-page booklet. Pending legislation includes: Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation; Hours of Labor; Measures to Regulate Conditions of Employment; Measures to Protect Life and Limb and the Health of Working People; Measures to Protect the Civil Rights of Workingmen; Anti-Alien Legislation; etc.   Future Law. Statutes. State Legislators. Workingmen. Work. Employment Conditions. Worker Health.  (Book ID 4234)  $15.00 Labor Record of Senators and Assemblymen; Fortieth Session of the California Legislature, January 6 to February 4 and March 10 to May 12, 1913 (cover title)  California State Federation of Labor.  San Francisco.  1913.  Illustrated Wrappers.  16-page pamphlet. From the Introductory: "An effort has been made to present a concise and yet comprehensive account of each legislator's performances. It is a truism that 'words are good only when backed by deeds' and a perusal of this pamphlet will enable anyone to learn who did and who did not live up to his promises and his party's platform pladges".   Legislative Votes. Pro-Workers. Campaign Promises. Voting Decisions. Platform Pledges.  (Book ID 4239)  $12.50 Original Photographs. "Stolle-Barndt Lumber Co."  Lincoln County, Wisconsin.  Four original photographs of logging crews for the Stolle-Barndt Lumber Co. circa.1890 (6 x 8 inch mounted on gray boards). The Stolle-Barndt Lumber Co. operated in Lincoln County, Wisconsin and these photographs are group pictures of the working logging crews. 1] titled - 'Stolle-Brandt Lbr. Co., Crew, Camp No. 8' five rows of loggers sitting on a pile of logs posing for the photo. 2] titled - 'Stolle-Barndt Lbr. Co., Crew & Teams, Camp No. ?' four rows of loggers sitting and standing on a pile of logs with the horse teams lined up across the front (18 horses) [some minor water stains across the bottom]. 3] untitled - a dozen loggers standing on top of the log sled with a team of horses in the snow. 4] untitled - eight teams of horses with loggers seated on the horses, along with the bunkhouse crew (several women) in a winter snow scene. Unusual set of photos of logging teams in the White Pine country of Wisconsin. The photographs, as originally taken and developed, do not have high resolution.   Condition: Very Good.  Logging, Wisconsin, Stolle-Brandt Lumber Co. DK-80  (Book ID 11682)  $100.00 Original Sterecoard Photograph. "Mexico's Principal Harbor, Vera Cruz."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 10800 (280). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the city of Vera Cruz and its' harbor. Founded by Cortes after landing on the Island San Juan de Uloa in 1518 and main invasion route of the Spanish, Americans and French. Nice view of dock workers on a wharf getting ready to unload a vessel tied up to the wharf. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Vera Cruz, Mexico, Harbors. DK-6  (Book ID 9269)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Busy Scene in the Ozark Apple Region of Missouri - Picking, Sorting and Packing in Barrels."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 16714 (175). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the cultivation and harvesting of apples for packing into barrels for shipping. Photo of the old style of picking fruit and packing in the field, ca.1914, which is being carried out by a crew of workers under the heat of the day. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Apples, Fruit, Ozarks, Missouri. DK-9  (Book ID 9488)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Charcoal Carriers, Chosen (Korea)."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 20601 (543). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the production of charcoal in Korea, formerly known as Chosen, and its loss of trees. Nice view of two men loaded down with racks of charcoal on their backs. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Charcoal, Workers, Korea. DK-7  (Book ID 9333)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Coffee from Porto Rico, Havana Wharf, Cuba."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 20518 (295). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the harbor of Havana and its imports, with an aside of how better the city is since the United States conquered it during the Spanish-American War and cleaned it up from its Spanish ways! Save the commentary, it is an excellent view of the dockworkers unloading a small vessel from Porto Rico of bags of coffee using ropes and pulleys.   Condition: Fine.  Coffee, Havana, Cuba. DK-6  (Book ID 9308)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "General View Sewing Room - Large Shoe Factgory, Syracuse, N.Y."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 22190 (41). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the production of making shoes from leather and cloth. View of a large room filled with women in front of sewing machines attaching cloth to leather for the upper section of shoes. Basicly a 'sweat shop' with windows. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Shoes, Factory. Wyracuse, New York. DK-9  (Book ID 9520)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Husking Coconuts - a Familiar Scene In the Great Coconut Country Near Pagsanjan, Island of Lazon, P.I."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 10074 (551). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the harvesting and husking of coconuts in the Philippines. Nice image of the workers spliting the coconuts and removing the copra. ca.1915. Nice clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Coconuts, Philippines. DK-7  (Book ID 9350)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Inspecting Paper Delivered By Machine, Holyoke, Mass."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 22070 (20). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the final stage of paper manufacture where inspectors look over the product when it comes out of the machine. View of a half dozen women inspecting the paper sheets as it comes out of the large machines. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Paper-Making, Manufacturing. DK-10  (Book ID 9543)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Manila Hemp Industry - Interior of a Native Hemp Factory, Philippines."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 10047 (553). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the making of ropes in the shed known as ropewalk. Nice image of the workers creating the ropes. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Hemp, Ropes, Philippines. DK-7  (Book ID 9346)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Method of Drying Coffee, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. So.Am."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 20817 (310). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the depulping and drying of the beans before shipping them in bags to the countries where the beans are roasted. Good image of the workers racking the beans and turning them in the sunlight with farm structures in the background. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Coffee, Brazil. DK-6  (Book ID 9300)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Milking Scene in Modern Dairy, New Jersey."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 16749 (57). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the operation of a modern dairy farm. Clean bright view of the interior of a dairy farm milking operation with overhead lights, suction lines for the milk and drains along with white uniformed workers.   Condition: Fine.  Dairy, Milk, Farming. DK-9  (Book ID 9528)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Native Boys Spinning Cotton, Egypt."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 6233 (563 ). Stereograph on gray board (7 x3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the manual method used for spinning cotton by children in the open. Photo gives a feel for the hot hard work involved in this process. In the distance are piles of cotton to be worked. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Cotton, Egypt. DK-7  (Book ID 9378)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Quarrying Granite - Drilling Preparatory to Splitting, Concord, N.H., U.S.A."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13709 (3). Stereogarph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the process involved in quarring granite and its use in construction of monuments, buildings, and gravestones. Spendid view of workers beginning to hand drill granite slabs surrounded by their tools with the walls of the quarry rising in the background. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Grante, Quarry, New Hampshire. DK-10  (Book ID 9550)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Reclaiming Swamp Land - Digging Ditch with Tractor Adn Laying Drain Tile, Wisconsin."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 16732 (161). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside discussing how farmers reclaimed land in the midwest before tractors. Clean image of a team of men operating a tractor as it digs the ditch and laying the pipe down in a farm field.   Condition: Fine.  Reclaimation, Tractor, Farming. Wisconsin. DK-9  (Book ID 9483)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Shaping Plates on Potter's Wheel. Trenton, N.J."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  #22095 (113). Stereograhy gray card (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside. View of two potters forming plates on a potters wheel. Some fraying to the ends with scuff marks on the ends also. In a plastic slip case.   Condition: Good.  Pottery, Industrial. DK-3  (Book ID 9062)  $15.00 Report of Industrial Conference called by The President  None.  No City.  1920.  Wrappers.  51-page booklet. Printed front cover. Slight chipping to spine. Contents include: Prevention of Disputes (Joint Organization Through Employee Representation); Plan for Adjustment of Disputes (Procedure When Both Sides Voluntarily Submit Disputes for Adjustment -- Procedure When There is no Voluntary Submission, etc.); Other Problems Affecting the Employment Relationship (Collective Bargaining, Hours of Labor, Child Labor, Wages, etc.); etc.   Labor Disputes. Employee Representation. Industrial Board. Collective Bargaining. Wages. Labor Laws.  (Book ID 4906)  $20.00 Signed Manuscript Document. "Painter, Plumber, and Glazier Indenture Agreement, Salop Vcounty, England, 1843"  Salop County, England.  1843.  Signed manuscript document (9 x 14 inch) dated 3 October 1843. One tax stamp and three small seals. Moisture staining and some handwriting faints on parment paper, one page. In the document thomas Davies, with his uncle Thomas Davies' consent, agrees to apprentice himself to Thomas Lloyd of Ellesmere for a period of five years in order to learn the skills of a painter, plumber and glazier. Signed by both Davies' and thomas Lloyd. Witnessed by Edward Hughes of Ellesmere. Stamp on the document reads - 'Shropshire, 6-3-43'. Unusual labor document.   Condition: Very Good.  Endenture, Apprenticeship. DK-88  (Book ID 11892)  $40.00 The Earle Premium Plan  Earle Products Company.  New York City.  Illustrated Wrappers.  Circa 1920. Catalogue from the Earle Products Company, New York, one sheet folded to 12 pages, each page 4 x 9 1/4. Illustrations. Catalogue shows premiums that can be earned by anyone who sells 28 boxes of candy and collects, and remits, $12.40. Premiums consist of ladies dresses, camera, watches, silverware, and a set of dishes (shipping charges extra).   Sales. Selling Plan. Agent. Sell Candy. Free Premiums. Earnings.  (Book ID 4281)  $12.50 Twelfth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of California, 1905-1906  State of California.  Sacramento.  1906.  Illustrated Wrappers.  244 pages. From the Law Creating the Bureau: "...collect, assort, systematize, and present, in biennial reports to the Legislature, statistical details, relating to all departments of labor in the State, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the probable chances of all being employed, the operation of labor-saving machinery in its relation to hand labor, etc. Statistical charts include: Occupation of Persons Convicted of Misdemeaners... and of Felonies; Chinese and Japanese -- Their Number and Condition; Wage Statistics for various occupations; Factory Inspections; Strikes and Lockouts; etc.   Employment. Workers. Occupations. Statistical Detail. Misdemeaners. Felonies. Ethnicity.  (Book ID 4162)  $10.00 Wage Scale and Working Rules of Local 274, International Union of Operating Engineers.  Missoula, Montana.  1929.  [8] pages; gray paper wrapper (2 5/8 x 5 1/4 inch). Stating membership rules and fees for operating engineers. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Engineers, Union Rules, Montana. DK-48  (Book ID 10909)  $15.00 Agnew, Mary A.  Workers in Subjects Pertaining to Agriculture in Stsate Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 1930-1931.  Department of Agriculture.  Washington, D. C..  1931.  Miscellaneous Publication No. 100. 152 pages; index; wrapper. Workers in the agricultural field of research employed during 1930-31 brokern down state by state. Former owner's initials on the cover "H.E.T."   Condition: Fine.  Scientists, Biology, Botany, Workers. DK-17  (Book ID 9875)  $15.00 Bancroft, Philip  "Unexpected Results of the Wagner Act". Radio Address By Philip Bancroft, Republican Candidate for U.S. Senator.  circa.1930s. Sheet folded into halfs (5 x 9 inch) printed on all four sides. Argues that the Wagner Act is un-American and undemocratic. Is strongly anti C.I.O.   Condition: Very Good.  California Politics, Labor Politics. DK-41  (Book ID 10751)  $15.00 Eliel, Paul  The Waterfront and General Strikes: San Francisco, 1934.  Hooper Printing Company.  San Francisco, California.  1934.  First Edition.  256 pages; exhibits, index; black cloth binding, gilt lettering on the spine. Former owner's stamp "Signed, Geo. R. Gay." on the front flyleaf. Written by Paul Eliel, Director of the Industrial Relations Department, Industrial Association of San Francisco. He was an employee of the San Francisco Industrial Association representing the Bay Area businessmen and served as a management consultant, arbitrater and educator in California. The book gives an overview of the strike that became a general strike in San Francisco after the death of 2 strikers by the police. Useful for the exhibits of documents at the back of the book. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Strikes, Longshoremen, San Francisco. DK-67  (Book ID 11320)  $25.00 Ely, J.T.A., And C.M.J. Hord  How to Get a Good Position.  The Gregg Publishing Company.  New York, New York.  1927.  vi, 72 pages; brown paper wrapper (5 x 7 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. an overview of applying and obtaining a good position in work - they are: sourcesof openings, help wanted advertisements, value of a Newspaper, employment agencies, canvassing, situations wanted advertisements, interviewing, your daily program, and peronal exploitation. Some discoloration along the top edges not effecting the text, a number in ink written on the cover.   Condition: Very Good.  Employment, Job Interviews. DK-90  (Book ID 11931)  $15.00 George, Henry, Jr.  The Life of Henry George  Doubleday and McClure Company. New York. 1900..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrations. Slight chipping spine top and bottom. 634 pages. Ink notation front end paper. Pages split to spine at copyright page. Small damp stain top edge pages 106-108 and other damp stain top edge pages 128 through 386. Contents include: Birth and Early Training (1839-1855); Learns to Set Type (1856-1857); Works His Passage to California (1858); Tossed About by Fortune (1858-1859); Begins Writing and Talking (1865-1866); Managing Editor and Correspondent (1866-1869); The "San Francisco Evening Post" (1871-1875); "Progress and Poverty" Published (1879-1880); The Irish Land League Movement (1881-1882); Starting the Revolution in Great Britain (1882); "Protection or Free Trade?" (1884-1886); Candidate for Mayor of New York (1886); Progress Through Dissensions (1887-1889); etc.   Typesetter. Printer. Gold Miner. Newspaperman. Writer. Correspondent. Editor. Political Speech. Lecture. Author. Free Trade. Protectionism. Dissenter.  (Book ID 657)  $37.50 Haas, Rev. Francis J  Rights and Wrongs in Industry: Catholic Doctrine on Industrial Problems  The Paulist Press.  New York.  1933.  Cover subtitles: 1. Roots of the Depression. 2. Moral Values in Industry. 3. Papal Teaching on Wages and Hours. Wrappers. 32 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Labor Relations. Religion.  (Book ID 6900)  $12.50 Haas, Rev. Francis J  The American Labor Movement  New York.  1937.  Published for The Social Action Department N.C.W.C. by The Paulist Press. Social Action Series No. 6. Wrappers. 35 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Religion. Labor Relations  (Book ID 6902)  $12.50 Haas, Rev. Francis J  The Wages and Hour of American Labor  The Paulist Press.  1937.  Social Action Series, No. 3. Wrappers. 29 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Religion. Labor Relations  (Book ID 6901)  $12.50 Swinton, John  A Momentous Question; The Respective Attitudes of Labor and Capital  Keller Publishing Co. Philadelphia. 1895..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Contains articles specially contributed by prominent and well-known representatives. Gilt decorations and lettering front cover and spine. Full-page illustrations. 498 pages. The author has travelled the country writing about and speaking on the subject of labor and incorporates his ideas in this book. Contents include: The Massing of Capital; Rush of the Alien Starvelings -- Slavs, Jews, and Italians; The Competition of Women -- Its Widening Influence; Unions and Their Aims -- Strikes and Their Uses; Eugene Victor Debs -- The American Railway Union; Violence in Strikes; Pullmanism; Our Glorious Country -- Our Heritage of Freedom and Wealth; etc. Additional chapters include: The Railway Strike of 1894, by Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor; Labor Strikes and their Lessons, by Eugene V. Debs, President American Railway Union; etc.   Workers. Employees. Laborers. Women Workers. Competition. Working Conditions. Strikes. Unions. Railway. Trains.  (Book ID 656)  $75.00 Wood, Benjamin  Bugle Calls; Awake, Educate, Agitate, Act !  Brentano's. New York. 1901..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrated front cover, slight chipping to decorations. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Ink notation front end paper. The author appeals to the workingman for organization, harmony, and unity in their work toward trade unions.   LABOR. WORKINGMAN. LABOR FORCE. TRADE UNIONS. ORGANIZED LABOR.  (Book ID 653)  $25.00

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