[Portrait Of] Sen Katayama

San Francisco: [unreadable], 1933. Small quarto broadside on thick stock paper; with black and white portrait Some slight edgewear; tape and prior owner stamp on verso. Broadside.

Stamp of husband & wife activists Elaine & Karl Yoneda to verso. "Sen Katayama (片山 潜, Katayama Sen, December 26, 1859 – November 5, 1933), born Yabuki Sugataro (藪木 菅太郎, Yabuki Sugatarō), was an early Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, one of the original members of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japanese Communist Party. After 1884, he spent most of his life abroad, especially in the United States and the Soviet Union, where he was very active in the international socialist community, and after 1920, the communist community. Katayama had a weak base inside Japan, and was little known there. However, in the rest of the world, he was widely hailed as a leading spokesman for the Japanese socialist and communist movements." --Wikipedia ¶ Elaine Black Yoneda and Karl Yoneda were emblematic figures in the American labor and civil rights movements, their lives interwoven with the tumultuous socio-political fabric of the 20th century. "Karl Gozo Yoneda (Japanese: 米田 剛三, July 15, 1906 – May 8, 1999) was a Japanese American activist, union organizer, World War II veteran and author. He played a substantial role in the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union."—Wikipedia