U.S. Labor Day poster, AFL-CIO greeting (Spanish poster distributed in Latin America)
A blue Spanish-language poster in which a steelworker on a girder, one hand on a crane hook marked AFL-CIO, waves to the viewer. The text says North American workers on their Labor Day, 7 September, greet their Latin American comrades, and the girder reads 'Solidaridad sindical interamericana' (inter-American trade union solidarity). The tell is plain-folks combined with glittering generalities: a working man and a solidarity slogan stand in for the relationship the sheet asserts.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 11, 1964
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- Labor
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 11, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949357, 306-PPB-416).
Text on the object
LOS TRABAJADORES NORTEAMERICANOS EN SU DIA DEL TRABAJO AFL-CIO SALUDAN SOLIDARIDAD SINDICAL INTERAMERICANA A SUS COMPAÑEROS LATINOAMERICANOS SEPTIEMBRE 7
NORTH AMERICAN WORKERS ON THEIR LABOR DAY AFL-CIO GREET INTER-AMERICAN TRADE UNION SOLIDARITY THEIR LATIN AMERICAN COMRADES SEPTEMBER 7
