Summary

Badge depicting the red flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) The flag bears the distinctive hammer and sickle symbol of communism. The hammer represents the workers and the sickle represents the peasants.Tthe star represents the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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

Flag-shaped metal badge in red and gold. On a red background, the gold hammer and sickle symbol and a gold star are in the top left corner.

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