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San Francisco Diggers, Communication Company, Free City Collective,
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Earth/Life Defense Commune, &c.
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Cat. No.: CC-151 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/15/1967. Broadside. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Reprint of leaflet by the Spring Mobilization Committee announcing the April 15 war protest.
Cat. No.: CC-158 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/15/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. with drawing of a candle.. Collection: SS-x(B) | SOLA-x(SS);SOLA-o($). Abstract: Announces an event in the Panhandle as part of the Spring Mobilization. Signed Diggers.
Cat. No.: CC-216 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/15/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Announcement of films at All Saints Hall, April 15 and 16. Photo-repro of Laurel and Hardy's faces at bottom of page. "Glory Here, Diggers All."
Cat. No.: CC-029 Full record BibCit: 4/16/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oL. Abstract: "Your Brothers and Sisters are returning, Tribes of Love and Peace returning to nature for a, Human Be-In beginning on April 22, in the Malakoff Diggings State Park.. Free, flower ladies sacraments love, pine trees lakes children flowers.."
"Donate help and material at the Diggers office 1350 Waller St. S.F."
Note: Appended handlettered I Ching hexagrams at bottom of page.
Cat. No.: CC-030a Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 4/16/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./4 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oT. Abstract: Four-page editorial takes a jaundiced look at the state of the Haight. "The hucksters will find it easier to denounce me than to correct themselves, & that, oh my brothers, is exactly what they'll do."
"printed possibly too late by the communication company"
Note: Handlettered I Ching hexagram (18.) at bottom of page 4: "Work on What Has Been Spoiled [decay]"
Cat. No.: CC-051a Full record BibCit: By G., Allen. 4/16/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-xB. Abstract: A rose-tinted plea from "Allen G. (Age 17 years)" for activities, jobs, opportunitites to be provided for "the kids" coming to the Haight.
"Can the HIP Merchants be persuaded to employ kids in every manner of work? The kids would respond to this. How do you go about persuading money-heads?..Get the Merchants to house, clothe & feed kids. ..The kids will dress like clean hippies. .."
Note: Two hexagrams. Imprint: "printed because that's where it's at by the communication company"
Cat. No.: CC-031 Full record BibCit: 4/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oL. Abstract: "The kids are coming. The kids are here. MAKE YOURSELVES AVAILABLE TO THE KIDS. Seek them out. Talk to them. Go where they are and teach/love. Now - these thousands of kids - is your chance to create the world as you know it should be."
"The kids are on the streets, in the coffehouses, at The Trip Without a Ticket, The Psychedelic Shop, The Print Mint, Tracey's, The digger office, Haight/Ashbury everywhere. If you wait to get organized, they'll be gone. ..The future is now. Do it now."
Note: Text is handlettered, title is block lettering. I Ching hexagram at top of page.
Cat. No.: CC-066a Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. N.D., Ca. 4/17/1967. Leaflet. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: your friendly neighborhood communication company (u.p.s.). Collation: 2sht/4pp. Collection: SS-x(B) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: By "c.a.", advice on drugs.
Cat. No.: CC-253 Full record BibCit: 4/17/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company (u.p.s.) be advised. Collation: 4 pages (2 sheets?). Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Detailed chemistry instructions for making DMT. First page is a cover sheet with block letters "DMT" in various patterns. Drawing of left hand points to the title. Imprint at bottom of first page.
Cat. No.: CC-012A Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 4/18/1967. r.s.: "KILL FOR PEACE". Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc. Collation: 2/cReBl. Collection: SOLA-oDW|SS-oL. Abstract: "..Sunrise..At..San Quentin..Death Dance| Free| bring meat| for| flesh| pyre!". At Daniel Roberts' execution. Transportation leaving Tuesday 4:30AM from Masonic & Oak. For info: Diggers Office 626-9600. Variant (C|SS) is Broadside. See CC-018.
Note: Dating probable given an article in the SF Chronicle & Examiner, Sunday, April 23, 1967 (This World, p. 5) that mentions the scheduled execution on Tuesday, April 18, of Daniel Roberts. Gov. Reagan postponed the execution for twenty days.
Cat. No.: CC-012b Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 4/18/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Abstract: Digger-style poem on the occasion of the execution of Daniel Roberts. "12 minutes of agony gas death burning central nervous system KILL .. RONALD REAGAN IS KILLING daniel roberts| so what| do your thing| come dance be. WAIL| .." See CC012a & CC018.
Note: SideB|BLtype/WH\. See Note for reverse side re: dating.
Cat. No.: CC-018 Full record BibCit: By diggers, the. n.d., ca. 4/18/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC(UPS). Collection: SOLA-oDW|SS-oL. Abstract: Announces a demonstration at San Quentin prison. "..the gratefull dead will jam outside the walls of san quentin" .. "trucks, cars, buses will leave from MASONIC & OAK at 4:15 A.M. tuesday morning .. bring raw meat bells flowers your thing" Rides coordinated at 901 Cole St. Signed "the diggers | (ain't that RIGHT mr. REAGAN)"
Cat. No.: DR-010a Full record BibCit: 4/18/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. Collation: 2 sht; stapled. Collection: SOLA-x(LH). Abstract: Father Leon Harris sent this to me in 1974, a two-page typed report on the Diggers’ break with All Saints Church, dated internally to April 1967. Its opening line is striking: “The San Francisco Diggers have split, both literally and figuratively.” The immediate issue was the closing of the Diggers’ office at All Saints Church on April 13, 1967, but the deeper subject was organization versus anti-organization.
The report should be read with some caution, since “the Diggers” were never a single, centrally organized body. The group using the All Saints Church office for referral, refuge, and social-service work was not the same group operating the Trip Without A Ticket Free Store, which had opened a few months earlier. What the report documents is therefore not the collapse of Digger activity as a whole, but a crisis within one Digger-associated operation.
The text says the office was closed because of “disorganization,” and then explains what that meant in practical terms: no one had assumed responsibility for the desk, the flow of people, litter, sleeping in the office, or cleaning the kitchen and recreation areas. The church had not simply thrown them out; rather, it required some minimum guarantees of order, and no one would take responsibility for making those guarantees.
The article names Tommy O’Donnell as a possible future “Organization Chairman” and quotes him saying, “The Diggers is an unorganized organization.” O’Donnell and Mike Donnellson are described as having a plan for six permanent volunteer organizers who would keep the office staffed, receive funds, take calls, dispatch people to refuge, maintain cleanliness, and keep the church agreements. Against this, another faction argues that the Diggers could not operate as an organization: they were “people helping people,” and organization might undo the good by creating “personality and bosses.” If they could not work from the church, they proposed taking to the streets with “a sort of floating social first aid kit.”
The piece is valuable because it catches one early Digger formation at a moment when practical free services were colliding with anti-bureaucratic principle. It documents a conflict that would recur throughout the Digger movement: how to keep free food, refuge, communication, and street-level aid functioning without creating leaders, offices, permissions, and administrative hierarchy.
It also gives a sympathetic view of Reverend Leon P. Harris and All Saints Church. The article notes that Harris had been “glad to have been able to assist,” and that having the Diggers’ office next to the church had given him contact with “radical assistance, lost and needy persons, and an occasional runaway.” The closing was therefore not portrayed as simple rejection by the church, but as a strained negotiation between religious institutional hospitality and Digger anarchic practice.
Note: Even though this report indicates that Digger activity at All Saints Church had ended in April 1967, the separation was temporary and partial. Within two months, the Digger Free Bakery operation began at the church and would continue there for at least two years. The report therefore documents a moment of rupture and reorganization, not a final break between the Diggers and All Saints Church. (See Berkeley Barb, Sept. 19, 1969, p. 14, about the Free Bakery's continuing operation at All Saints Church.)
Cat. No.: CC-032A Full record BibCit: By X. 4/20/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oT. Abstract: "And so, six months ago you watched two guys bring a milk can full of turkey stew into the panhalde [sic] and start the diggers. two weeks later free food in the panhandle at four o'clock was advertised in the berkeley barb and it never missed a day.
"somebody asked: Why free food? and anyone answered: free clothes. ..we put down the merchants, the bullshitters, the hustlers and we sit around and it's all the same and there's nothing new under the sun and free food seems a long time gone.."
Note: Sarcastic comment on the free scene. R.s. has photo of demonstrators on City Hall steps: "Who Are These Men?"
Cat. No.: CC-032B Full record BibCit: By X. 4/20/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oT. Abstract: The title is the caption for a photo of demonstrators on City Hall steps (Black Panther Party?) Two arrows pointing to two individuals in the photograph presumably are the focus for the question.
Cat. No.: CC-211 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/20/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus.. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Announcing "King Kong" at the movies, April 20, All Saints Church. Psychedelic lettering around a drawing of a gorilla in the center of the page.
Cat. No.: CC-214 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/20/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Purpose of meeting: "to share what we know and who we are with one another." To take place at the Hearth, Oak and Baker Streets, April 20, 8pm. The letters RAP are large, open, with smaller words written inside: Talk, Rap, Meet, Commune, etc.
Cat. No.: CC-180 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/21/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: $1 donation, 21 Apr 1967, at 1711 Broderick.
Cat. No.: CC-146 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/22/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces a Human Be-In on April 22 at Malakoff Diggings State Park ... "donate help ... at the Diggers office 1350 Waller".
Cat. No.: CC-200 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/22/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Invitation to musical meeting. Signed, "Oscar Criner."
Cat. No.: CC-255 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Comm Comp. Collation: This page has normal (letter) orientation.. Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Announces "Free Lawyers (your cases handled free)" with several phone numbers listed, both daytime and nights. Address listed: 901 Cole Street, Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:00 pm. Imprint is lower right corner on this side of B.S. Lettering is hand drawn, with several reverse swastikas as background.
Cat. No.: CC-057 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester and Claude Hayward. N.d., ca. 4/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the com co a member of the Underground Press Syndicate. Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oL. Abstract: Blasts the underground press for not covering the story of the manager of the Committee being set up for a pot bust by two members of the Lovin' Spoonful.
"Either the Underground Press Syndicate means something, in which case we expect to see full coverage of this hypocrisy, or else [it] is nothing more than the same old America shit in a bright new polyethylene extruded psychedelic wrapper."
Note: Letterhead logo of ComCo at top of sheet. Signed by both authors.
Cat. No.: CC-006 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 4/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc.ups.hps.aid.dds. Collection: SOLA-xSS|SS-oL. Abstract: 'Psychedelic Sexualis' showing at The Movie, 1034 Kearny every 90 minutes. ".. just say, 'Ramparts sent me.' and you'll get in free!!!!!!!! the management requests that you refrain from hissing and booing while the show is in progress."
Note: Dating based on first advertisement of the movie in the San Francisco Chronicle (April 27, 1967, p. 44).
Cat. No.: CC-256 Full record BibCit: 4/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Communication Co.. Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Announcement for a Digger poetry reading featuring Lenore Kandel, Richard Brautigan, William Fritsch, at "Deno and Carlo, 728 Vallejo Street." "Young Digger Poets Bring Your Poems and read them." Imprint is lower right corner. All lettering is hand drawn, mostly in script. Drawing in middle of sheet appears to be similar to William Blake illustrations.
Cat. No.: CC-179 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: A benefit to get the Black House out of jail, to be held 28 Apr 1967 at 1711 Broderick. $2 donation.
