IWO Women's City Committee to District Leaders Regarding Campaign Against Inflated Prices, May 1941 (correspondence)
- Description:
- Translated Summary: Begins, "The nation's bankers and industrialists, who are dragging us closer to the abyss of war, have also decided that the people will bear the cost of war through higher taxes..." "The discontent of women who have to cover the increased cost of living can be heard in every market..." Announces campaign against larcenous pricing for staple goods. [Prior to Hitler invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, the IWO opposed U.S. support of the Allies in World War II.]
- Date:
- 1941-05-29
- Copyright:
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- Creator:
- Shavelson (Lemlich), Clara, 1886-1982
- File Name:
- 5276b67f11_86
- Identifier:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 67, Folder 11
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University