I just got through extolling the virtues of knowing history to know on what has passed before you when I ran across these images looking for something on taxes. Brilliant completely current — makes today’s arguments look like history repeating itself.
Title: Wanted, a leader! - The labor-agitation orchestra on the go-as-you-please plan
Subjects: Labor leaders Powderly, Terence Vincent, 1849-1924
George, Henry, 1839-1897 American Federation of Labor
Political cartoons — United States Source: Puck
Title: The Emancipator of Labor and the Honest Working People (Communists)
Subjects: Communism — Economic & Social Conditions — United States — 1900 -1910
Laborers — Working Class Political cartoons — 1870 - 1880
Source: Harper’s Weekly, February 7, 1874
Title: The bogus workingman and his lonesome boom
Subjects: Corruption,Labor leaders, Afro-Americans Servants
Political cartoons — United States
These are just a few spectacularly spot on cartoons at the Southern Labor Archives.
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