Item SH 901792 Badge - Union of Building and Construction Workers, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, pre 1984

Summary

Badge issued in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) by the Union of Building and Construction Workers.

Part of collection of badges collected by Jim Cooper, a veteran member of the Building Workers' Industrial Union (NSW Branch) and Union and political activist before his death in 1984. His daughter passed the badges on to Alf Zeeno, ex-secretary of the BWIU, with a request that they be donated to the museum.

Physical Description

Square metal badge with a central image of a crane hook lifting a slab for a building. Across the top of the badge is a red border with white metal text. Around the image is a grey metal border with border with white metal text.