ORIT-ICFTU Free Labor congress call poster (English-language poster distributed in Mexico City)
A congress call poster: a white radio mast on a map of the Americas sends lightning-bolt signals outward, with the dates and city of the sixth continental congress of the free labor movement. The sheet is signed by the labor organisation ORIT and its parent body, not by a government. The tell is glittering generalities: 'free labor' is presented as a shared continental cause, with no programme stated.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 9, 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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, November 9, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949359, 306-PPB-418).
Text on the object
CALL ORIT ICFTU VI CONTINENTAL CONGRESS INTER-AMERICAN FREE LABOR MOVEMENT MEXICO CITY FEBRUARY 2-6, 1965
