VINTAGE - HISTORIC 

 1981

 1 3/4" with lockpin back     Made in The U.S.A.

SOLIDARNOSC

SOLIDARITY was the first independent labor union in a Soviet Block country.

  It was  founded in Poland in 1980. The union was forcibly suppressed 

by the Polish government  in 1981. Its leader, LECH WALESA, led 17,000

 workers from the Lenin Shipyards, in Gdansk, in a strike. This pin, with the logo of the

 Polish Solidarity Movement, was worn by labor unions in the United States to show "solidarity" 

with the Polish workers. American union workers wore this pin during the uprising in Gdansk.

 From the collection of Larry Fox,  "The Button Man"   (Member: A.P.I.C.) 

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