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title: Meany in Miami Beach with our union dues
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plp-meany-miami-beach-union-dues-1971/
description: A poster shows a portly man in a hat and glasses, a cigarette in his mouth, looking into a wallet he holds, under the headline "Meany in Miami Beach with…
section: Collection
---

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[![Meany in Miami Beach with our union dues](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plp-meany-miami-beach-union-dues-1971.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plp-meany-miami-beach-union-dues-1971.jpg)

# Meany in Miami Beach with our union dues

A poster shows a portly man in a hat and glasses, a cigarette in his mouth, looking into a wallet he holds, under the headline "Meany in Miami Beach with our union dues", with "Build rank & file caucuses - 30-hr. week 40-hr. pay!" running down the side. The photograph and caption together imply that members' dues pay for the union president's leisure, with no figure or document offered.

- **Date:** 1971
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Progressive Labor Party (United States)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party)
- **Regime:** [Nixon Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nixon-administration)
- **Leader:** [Richard Nixon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=richard-nixon)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Theme:** [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor)
- **Event:** [Afl Cio 1971 Convention](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=afl-cio-1971-convention)
- **Techniques:** [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2015650073/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Meany in Miami Beach
With OUR UNION DUES

[vertical text, left of photograph:] BUILD RANK & FILE CAUCUSES - 30-Hr. WEEK 40-Hr. PAY!
[vertical text, right of photograph:] Printed by Progressive Labor Party
```

Read from a 1024 px LoC scan with calibration bars in the margin. The pencilled verso note is not visible on this scan and is taken from LoC's catalogue record.

[← Prisoner of the Soviet secret police: Boris Penson, Soviet Jew: let my people go!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sssj-boris-penson-let-my-people-go-1970/) [Hồi Chánh Viên Nguyễn Văn Lệ (Returnee Nguyen Van Le), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-080-71 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-nguyen-van-le-rallier-1971/)

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