Scrap Iron & Junk Handlers Union Local 20467

Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers Union Local 20467 Club Busy Beaver Button Museum
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Club
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Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers Union Local 20467 Back Club Busy Beaver Button Museum
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Litho
Text on Button SCRAP IRON & JUNK HANDLERS A.F. OF L. JUNE 1939 UNION LOCAL 20467
Image Description

Dark blue and teal text, and illustrations of a wheelbarrow filled with junk, a large iron appliance, and a hand truck on an off-white background in the center; teal with off-white text on the top and bottom
Back Paper / Back Info

GERAGHTY & COMPANY 
[3 union bugs]
3035-37 W. LAKE ST.
CHICAGO
U.S.A.
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1930s
1939
The Manufacturer
Geraghty & Co
Additional Information

Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers Union Local 20467 was a workers union based in Chicago. In 1957, the union changed its name to the Waste Materials Handlers Union Local 20467.

This union is best known as having once employed Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected killer in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 
Sources

Jack L. Ruby; Lee Harvey Oswald- Victim (1964, June 9). United States Department of Justice. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/FBI%20Records%20Images/44-24016%20Serial…;
Catalog ID CL0713