Uncle Sam protects you! : you can't be fired for joining the union – Vintage Print
![Uncle Sam protects you! : you can't be fired for joining the union, [between 1965 and 1980] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e1f32f70a294-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage poster captures Uncle Sam protects you! : you can't be fired for joining the union in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Uncle Sam protects you! : you can't be fired for joining the union
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Uncle Sam, the familiar national symbol, is cast here as a guarantor of workers' rights, with the slogan promising that joining a union will not cost anyone their job. The catalog dates the poster only to a span between 1965 and 1980, and it survives in two sizes, one exactly twice the dimensions of the other. The message echoes the protections in the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which barred employers from firing workers for union membership. Posters of this kind carried that legal promise into workplaces and union halls, where organizers relied on blunt, memorable appeals to reach members.
| Created / published | [between 1965 and 1980] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 prints (posters) ; 56 x 44 cm. and 28 x 22 cm. |
| Genre | Posters American.Prints. |
| Notes | Posters are variants; size differs. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. jj / 860127. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,990 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224332 |
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