The Trial of a New Society. Being a Review of the Celebrated Ettor-Giovannitti-Caruso Case, Beginning with the Lawrence Textile Strike that caused it and including a general strike that grew out of it [...] Illustrated with Portraits, Posters and Cartoons
Cleveland: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1913. First edition. Octavo. Original gilt-lettered red cloth; 160pp; six unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild evidence of library use, including remnants of a paper label at base of spine and of bookplate / card pocket removal to fixed endpapers. Otherwise a tight, unmarked, Very Good copy.
Documentary materials on the Lawrence Textile Strike and the subsequent trial of Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, leaders of the strike committee who were framed for the murder of an onlooker; evidence produced at the trial proved they were three miles away at the time of the incident. Illustrated with halftones of the principal figures and reproductions of strike posters and cartoons. MILES 4083. Uncommon.
Price: $175.00