Contact Jeunes - mensuel des Cadets et Jeunesses syndicales F.G.T.B. · March-April 1971
Contact Jeunes no. 2 - "With the fgtb, I have my say" - collage from Mécénat Démocratique
1971
Article published across 15 pages - read in the numbered order below.
Contact Jeunes, no. 2, March-April 1971: cover "with the FGTB I have my say!".
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Issue 2 (March-April 1971) of Contact Jeunes, the monthly of the F.G.T.B. Cadets and Young Trade Unionists, devoted to the social elections. The magazine reproduces a full-page collage kindly authorised by "Mécénat démocratique", the non-profit run by Charline Mahy and Mon De Rijck, and publishes a box setting out the association's aims: bringing art within reach of the general public, allowing artists to live from their art, fighting bad taste, creating shared workshops for artists and young people, and ensuring painting and sculpture become public property again. The association states it groups 243 artists and holds 8,000 works of art.
Article text · translation
Reproduction of the collage kindly authorised by "Mécénat démocratique".
This association aims to
- bring Art within reach of the general public,
- give artists the possibility of living from their Art,
- fight the bad taste around us,
- create shared workshops for artists and young people,
- ensure that painting and sculpture become public property again.
It currently groups 243 artists and holds 8,000 works of art which it will redistribute according to a formula that will be communicated to you by the non-profit "Mécénat Démocratique", office 302, Centre International Rogier, 1000 Brussels - Tel. 35.63.55.
CONTACT JEUNES
MONTHLY OF THE F.G.T.B. CADETS AND YOUNG TRADE UNIONISTS
Special
No. 2 - March-April 1971
CONTENTS:
- Young people also have their say ... 2
- Young people refuse... demand... ... 4
- Women and the social elections ... 5
- Migrant workers and the F.G.T.B. ... 8
- The F.G.T.B. is open to all ... 11
- Workers' control ... 12
Responsibility for signed articles lies with the authors alone.
Reproduction prohibited.
Photos: R. PIETTE, E. BERNARD, "Le Peuple".
Price: single issue 15 F; subscription 100 F a year - 10 issues.
Distributed free to Cadets and Young Trade Unionist members.
Printing: Imprimerie Coopérative - Huy.
Editorial and administration:
F.G.T.B. - Rue Haute 42, 1000 Brussels.
Tel. (02)11.80.67 - Postal account: 7530.10
Responsible editor: Pierre BAUFAYS.
Contact Jeunes, n° 2, mars-avril 1971, p. 15 (encadré et ours)
Context note
Document kept in Carl De Moncharline's family archives. The magazine does not name the author of the collage: it credits "Mécénat démocratique", the non-profit founded by Charline Mahy and Mon De Rijck. According to the family, it is one of Charline Mahy's earliest collages. The issue is dated March-April 1971 in the masthead.