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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1971
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Progressive Labor Party (United States)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Labor
- Event
- Afl Cio 1971 Convention
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, 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.
