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Title Stop work to stop the war : Friday 18th Sept
Published Victoria : Trade Union Anti-conscription Committee, 1970

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 ADPML SPPAM  355.22363 Sto/Wts  LIB USE ONLY
Description 1 sheet : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary This leaflet was issued in 1970 in Melbourne by the Trade Union Anti-conscription Committee for the second of three main moratorium marches in Melbourne between 1970-1971. The first march was by far the biggest, and the photograph on the front of this leaflet is of the first rally, on 8th May 1970. The symbol on front represents the Moratorium Organising Committee. It was acquired by donor during his period of draft resistance and other anti-conscription activities between 1965 and 1972
Inscriptions: Printed on front: STOP/ WORK/ Friday 18th Sept./ to STOP/ the WAR. Printed on second page: Between 100,000 and 200,000 people in the biggest mass demonstrations in Australia's history took part in the May Moratorium to end the Viet-/nam war./ Yet the war goes on with all its horror and / slaughter. Nixon's policy is escalation, not with-/ drawal. When he pulled U.S. troops out of Cambodia he left behind 40,000 American trained and..."
Analysis Politics & Public Protest
Vietnam War
Conscription
Anti-Conscription Campaigns
Societies
Trade Unions
Vietnam Moratorium
Vietnam War, 1959-1975
Wars & Conflicts
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Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Politics and society
Conscription
Vietnam Moratorium, 1969.
Genre/Form Image