1967 ORIGINAL CHICAGO ANTIWAR Original Pin/Pinback Button INCLUDED IN CA SURVEY

Description

This is an original anti-war pinback button. It's included in the 1967 California Magazine survey of antiwar buttons and the article image is shown as our last scan but is not included in this sale. That's CA MAGAZINE Volume 9 #1.
Text is
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LOVE
is Lovely
WAR
is Ugly
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Back shows patina of age. 1-1/4 inch diameter. In excellent condition.
On the side is the printer's credit line
HIP PROD. 153 NORTH CHGO
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Hip Products was known as a counterculture printer that was later (1970) acquired by the IWW (see below).
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IWW Organizing in the 1970s
By Mike Hargis -
Libertarian Labor Review
#16, Winter 1994
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When the IWW began its resurgence in the 1960s, it became mostly a student and counter-cultural phenomenon. But at the dawning of the 1970s the times seemed ripe for bringing the IWW back to the job. The radicalization of the sixties was beginning to be felt in industry and was expressing itself in wildcat strikes and tales of sabotage.
The Chicago Branch of the IWW decided to jump into the fray with a few organizing bids early in the decade. In the period from 1970-73 the Branch took on a manufacturer of counter-cultural artifacts called Hip Products; a move house (Three Penny Cinema) owned by an ex-commie; a small furniture factory; and even received a grant from some philanthropist to venture into organizing McDonalds restaurants. None of these efforts succeeded, except for the Three Penny campaign which did result in a short-lived contract which was lost when the workers quit en-masse in response to a new ownership's decision to turn the once-popular cinema into an exhibitor of pornographic films.
In analyzing these early campaigns, members of the Branch came to the conclusion that the IWW got involved in these struggles only when someone who worked in the place, usually someone involved in the local counterculture, contacted someone they knew in the IWW; therefore there was no real strategic or tactical planning done to carry on the fight. They concluded that what needed to be done was to target a particular industrial sector and prepare a long-term effort to "infiltrate" the sector and organize from within.
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/misc/Hargis1994/