SASHA; [Rare tribute book issued by affiliates of the ILGWU in honor of the 70th birthday of socialist activist and trade union leader Charles "Sasha" Zimmerman].
[New York]: (Dressmakers' Joint Council, ILGWU, 1967). First edition. Published as a tribute to Charles "Sasha" Zimmerman, a social activist, long-time official of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union [ILGWU], national Co-Chairman of the Socialist Party of America and Social Democrats USA, founding member of what came to be known as the Independent Labor League of America, etc. The text includes a 4-page synopsis of Zimmerman's work in the labor movement, 13 pages of tributes (30 in all) from President Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, AFL-CIO President George Meany, ILGWU President Louis Stulberg, NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, National Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, et al. Illustrated with photomechanical frontis portrait of Zimmerman; 8 pages featuring 34 photomechanical images of Zimmerman with fellow labor and civil rights leaders, politicians, workers, et al; and, beneath the colophon at rear of book, a 3" x 5" image of what appears to be a young Zimmerman sitting on a grassy knoll surrounded by (presumably) fellow union leaders and/or workers and their families. Slender, small 4to black leather boards with "Sasha" stamped in gilt on front; 28 unnumbered pages. Very good with binding material offsets to endpapers and opposing pages and few small touch ups to leather. A possibly unique and certainly rare artifact demonstrating a period of goodwill between politicians and labor leaders.
Item #72759
Price: $500.00