2010.54.11597

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The Miners' Struggle
The Miners' Struggle
1962
18.75 in HIGH x 22.125 in WIDE
(47.62 cm HIGH x 56.2 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.11597

Bottom left: UAW" logo". | Bottom right: Allied Printing Union Label" logo 99". | Bottom left of image: "John Z. Gelsavage / 1957". On back: "Additional copies of / UAW "This Union Cause" Posters / may be obtained from / UAW Education Department / 8000 East jefferson Avenue / Detroit 14, Michigan / Price, $3.25 per set / "Allied Printing Union Label" logo 99 / (c) 1962 International Union - UAW".





Poster is printed on white paper. Poster is a collage of scenes related to coal minging. There is a child in miners clothing holding a pick ax. A parade of men and women and a group of people witnessing a hanging. At the bottom right of the poster is text that reads: "The Miners'' Struggle''. Below this title are two columns of text that reads: "Mine workers suffered every time they tried to organize / their union in the late 1800''s. Children 14, 15, and 16 were / "too old" to work after they had been in the mines since / their tenth birthday. strike breakers were brought in by the hundreds when miners attempted to win justice ffrom the / owners. The "Molly Maguires" were broken and ten were / hanged after a Pinkerton detective posed as a fugitive to / win their confidence. Evidence produced in the trial in 1875 / was proven false 75 years later.".
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