[Item #26658] Official Labor Union Manual of Montgomery, Alabama. Containing a Full Description Union Labor, Child Labor, Scab, Etc. ORGANIZED LABOR, ALABAMA.

Official Labor Union Manual of Montgomery, Alabama. Containing a Full Description Union Labor, Child Labor, Scab, Etc.

[Montgomery: ca. 1903]. First Edition. No author, publisher, or sponsoring organization given. Oblong quarto (20x25.5cm.); original peach decorated wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrapper extremities quite worn with shallow chipping and long closed tears, previous vertical fold, some old tiny losses throughout textblock due to vermin activity. Still, Good and sound for such an ephemeral piece.

Pro-labor promotional brochure for Montgomery businesses. Editorial content, consisting of brief critiques of anarchism, scab and child labor, etc., is interspersed with paid endorsements for sponsoring businesses. Illustrated with halftones. Includes a full page of portrait vignettes of the officers of the Montgomery Trade Council, possibly the sponsors of the publication.

Alabama Department of Architecture and History Library only in OCLC as of June, 2015.

Price: $350.00

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