Stock Yards Labor Council

Stock Yards Labor Council Self Referential Button Museum
Category
Self Referential
Club
Additional Images
Stock Yards Labor Council button back Self Referential Button Museum
Sub Categories
Labor
Unions
Text on Button STOCK YARDS LABOR COUNCIL A.F. OF L. IF YOU ARE WITH US WEAR THIS BUTTON OCT. 1919
Image Description

Curved black text outside thin black circular line with horizontal text inside on a lavender background. Labor seal on bottom inside of circle.
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1910s
1919
Additional Information

The Stockyard Labor Council (1917-1922) was established as a coalition of Chicago's American Federation of Labor unions to organize meat packing house workers from all the crafts including meat cutters, machinists, electricians, carpenters, coopers, office workers, steamfitters, engineers, railway carmen and firemen. The union had only limited success in improving workers' conditions during WWI and by 1922 the group was defunct. Light surface wear marks only in reflected light.
Catalog ID SR0107