
An American Labor Party political poster in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert H. Lehman. Signs in the labor poster call for a five-day week, shorter hours, the right to organize, abolition of child labor, collective bargaining, higher wages and social security.
(Corry/Getty Images) A lone hotel barber, a member of the AFL-CIO, carries a sign objecting to scab employees as he strikes outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City during the 1940s. A uniformed doorman speaks to a woman in the background. (Keystone/Getty Images) On Feb. 3, 1975, a group of Playboy bunny girls pickets outside a meeting of Playboy Club employees who are voting on whether to join the Transport and General Workers' Union. (RUSSELL LEE/Getty Images) An official of the pecan workers' union holds relief supplies of butter and beans, which are supposed to feed a family of three for two weeks.