How Labor’s Counter-Offensive is Organized

Mapping the operations of the short-lived North American Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization (NUWRO).

This impressive assemblage of maps and diagrams outlines the nationwide efforts of the North American Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization (NUWRO), an activist organization that emerged from the welfare rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s (though separate from the better-known National Welfare Rights Organization – NWRO). Information is power, and the primary map presents a network of nine Regional Intelligence and Staging Centers, each connected to further satellite ‘subcenters.’ Several additional maps and diagrams of varying scales (briefly described in the accompanying text) highlight the local organization of the group.

Issued as the centerfold in a Special Supplement of New Solidarity, published by the National Caucus of Labor Committee in New York. Printed in February 1974, just a few weeks before the NUWRO Semi-Annual Convention in New York. The first page presents a simple road map of the primary routes from the Detroit area (the ‘home base’ of the NUWRO) to New York, with the associated article referencing the ongoing oil crisis and Rockefeller’s culpability in undermining labor.