[LABOR HISTORY] TIPPETT, Tom

When Southern Labor Stirs

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [2],xvi,348,[2]pp, with photographic frontispiece and 12 plates of illustrations. Spine ends gently nudged, private library sticker on title page, else a fresh, Fine copy. In the original dustjacket, with a wraparound photograph of a group of strikers; price-clipped, edgeworn, with some shallow losses to corners and along upper and lower edges, a few tears and attendant creases, with a small patch of sticker-pull at lower spine panel; Very Good.

First-hand accounts of the trials of southern textile workers, "which in 1929 and 1930 startled the world with news of mob hysteria, kidnapped organizers, the shooting of a chief of police and the cold blooded massacre of six pickets" (from front flap). Tippet supplies extensive background on the conditions burdening textile mill workers, and detailed coverage of the Elizabethton, Marion, Gastonia, and Danville Strikes. An elusive volume in the first edition, particularly in dustjacket.

Price: $250.00

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