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title: '"1 Maja": PZPR works-committee invitation to the May Day march, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/poland-pzpr-may-day-invitation-poznan-1981/
description: Red-on-white typographic poster inviting all staff and students to a 'May Day demonstration of the unity of working people', with wreaths to be laid at a…
section: Collection
---

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# "1 Maja": PZPR works-committee invitation to the May Day march, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Red-on-white typographic poster inviting all staff and students to a 'May Day demonstration of the unity of working people', with wreaths to be laid at a plaque for railwaymen killed in 1920, the site of a monument to the victims of June 1956, and a monument to the Greater Poland insurgents, assembling at 9.45. Unity is asserted in a slogan and attached to three memorial sites.

## Text on the object

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

```
1 MAJA
ZAPRASZAMY WSZYSTKICH PRACOWNIKÓW
I STUDENTÓW UAM DO UDZIAŁU
W PIERWSZOMAJOWEJ MANIFESTACJI JEDNOŚCI
LUDZI PRACY

WRAZ Z ZAŁOGAMI ZAKŁADÓW PRZEMYSŁOWYCH ZŁOŻYMY
WIĄZANKI KWIATÓW:
- POD TABLICĄ KU CZCI KOLEJARZY POLEGŁYCH W 1920 R.
- W MIEJSCU BUDOWY POMNIKA OFIAR CZERWCA 1956 R.
- POD POMNIKIEM POWSTAŃCÓW WIELKOPOLSKICH
SPOTYKAMY SIĘ O GODZ. 9.45 PRZY PL. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA

KOMITET ZAKŁADOWY PZPR UAM
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
1 MAY
WE INVITE ALL EMPLOYEES
AND STUDENTS OF UAM TO TAKE PART
IN THE MAY DAY MANIFESTATION OF THE UNITY
OF WORKING PEOPLE

TOGETHER WITH THE CREWS OF INDUSTRIAL PLANTS WE WILL LAY
WREATHS OF FLOWERS:
- UNDER THE PLAQUE IN HONOUR OF RAILWAYMEN FALLEN IN 1920
- AT THE SITE OF THE BUILDING OF THE MONUMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF JUNE 1956
- UNDER THE MONUMENT TO THE GREATER POLAND INSURGENTS
WE MEET AT 9.45 AT ADAM MICKIEWICZ SQUARE

WORKS COMMITTEE OF THE PZPR, UAM
```

The handwritten library inventory mark at bottom left is not part of the object and is omitted.

[← Ya abna' al-jaysh al-'iraqi (O Sons of the Iraqi Army): Iranian Army leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-army-leaflet-to-iraqi-army-1981/) [Rajai and Bahonar in divine palms above Statue-of-Liberty figures: Isfahan Islamic Guidance poster, 1981 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rajai-bahonar-divine-palms-statues-of-liberty-isfahan-1981/)

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