"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.

Date: 1981
Period: Cold War
Made by: Komitet Zakładowy PZPR UAM (Polish United Workers' Party works committee, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Poland
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Polish Peoples Republic
Leader: Wojciech Jaruzelski
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Labor, Elections and party politics
Event: Polish Crisis 1980 81
Techniques: Glittering generalities Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Europeana 1989 - Poznań collecting day (14-15 June 2013), digitised in the Federation of Digital Libraries (fbc.pionier.net.pl), via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (provider's own rights statement on the Europeana record; not independently verified)
Europeana 1989 - Poznań, 14-15.06.2013, via Europeana (record /2025902/_nnVvzz2, POZ042)

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.