2010.54.644

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Poster has a black and white photograph in the center of immigrant coal workers in the early 1900s. The poster reads, "'They don't suffer; they can't even speak English.' George Baer President, Philadelphia Reading Railroad 1902./ Immigrant coal workers eventually won shorter hours, higher wages and union recognition, setting precedents for all of organized labor. Today, a new underclass struggles for economic justice: working women who on the average earn only 59 cents for every dollar a man makes./ Pay Equity. Another step toward justice./ Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women." One of a series of posters on labor's contribution to social justice. [LMC]

Client for this poster was SEIU, 9to5, National Association of Working Women.