Next Meeting:  

Tuesday, May 19

Host:  AFSCME District Council 47

1606 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Register to attend the May 19 Philly LERA meeting HERE

Many thanks to AFSCME DC 47 for hosting Philly LERA!

IMPORTANT:  You must pre-register for this program!

**NOTE: THERE WILL BE 2026-2027 OFFICER ELECTIONS AT THIS MEETING! 
Join us for appetizers and networking before the program, and vote for the 2026-27 officers!

TOPIC – Comic Books as Instruments of Union Organizing
in Mid-Century America

PRESENTER:      Fred B. Jacob, Esq., NLRB Solicitor

1935 saw the birth of two great American institutions: the comic book and the federal right to join labor unions. In the ensuing decades, both comic books and labor unions saw exponential growth and expanded reach in American society. Their intersection was inevitable. Labor unions and their political opponents used the popular medium to reach working-class and immigrant populations through several publications.  Solicitor Jacob will lay the contextual groundwork for these obscure but amazing comic books and discuss why comics were an ideal medium in mid-century to debate organized labor and its role in our economic and political systems.