Kathy Martino Papers
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Kathy Martino was a member of the Revolutionary Union (RU), the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), and was active in labor organizing in New York City. The Kathy Martino Papers consist of one box of flyers, bulletins, and union newsletters related to Martino's work in organizing various industries in the 1970s. These materials relate to Martino's involvement with various unions, including hospital, electrical, steel, garment, food service, bakery, and auto workers, as well as veterans and the Unemployed Workers' Organizing Committee. The collection largely consists of printed materials collected by Martino, which largely date from 1974 to 1976. The collection also contains several folders of RU May Day flyers 1974-1975, flyers and schedules from a 1976 RCP conference in Philadelphia, and an assortment of RU and RCP pamphlets and bulletins.
Biographical / Historical
Kathy Martino was a member of the Revolutionary Union (RU) and Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). She was active in labor organizing in New York City.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Content Description
The Kathy Martino Papers consist of one box of flyers, bulletins, and union newsletters related to Martino's work in organizing various industries in the 1970s. These materials relate to Martino's involvement with various unions, including hospital, electrical, steel, garment, food service, bakery, and auto workers, as well as veterans and the Unemployed Workers' Organizing Committee. The collection largely consists of printed materials collected by Martino, some of which include Martino's notes and doodles. These materials largely date from 1974 to 1976, but many of the flyers and bulletins are undated and some materials are dated as late as 1980.
The collection also contains several folders of Revolutionary Union (RU) May Day flyers 1974-1975, flyers and schedules from a 1976 Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) conference in Philadelphia, and an assortment of RU and RCP pamphlets and bulletins. Among the pamphlets are 2 original satirical drawings of labor bureaucrats and social-fascism. The author of the drawings is not identified, but they were most likely created by Martino.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Kathy Martino, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in 2016 by Kathy Martino. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Kathy Martino Papers; TAM 702; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Kathy Martino in 2016. The accession number associated with this gift is 2016.073.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning materials in this collection were moved into archival housing and described in a collection-level finding aid. This collecion has not been arranged by an archivist. Materials in the collection are in the order in which they were received from the donor.
