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Labor History - 125: Employer Violence

May 19, 1975

Labor History - 125: Employer Violence

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Title
Labor History - 125: Employer Violence
Creator
Wright, Fred, 1907-1984
Contributor
Lerner, James, 1911-2003 (contributor)
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Contributor
Lerner, James, 1911-2003
Date
May 19, 1975
Identifier
ue13.3.1.125
Description
This cartoon depicts the employers attempts to try and stop strikes, including using violent tactics. Caption 1: Labor movements in Europe which appealed to the CIO and its affiliates for help and solidarity in resisting the anti-democratic forces won a sympathetic response. The new unions feared that the violence which was being used to smash workers' organizations abroad would find a ready acceptance by the corporations here who saw in the new labor movement a threat to their exploitation of working people. Caption 2: In strike after strike, violence was a major weapon turned on the workers by the employers. State troops, hired thugs, paid stool pigeons were all part of the employer counter-offensive. Along with the violence went a massive effort to persuade workers that the industrial union movement was part of a red plot to overthrow the United States government and financed from abroad. Caption 3: The Roosevelt Administration with its social security, minimum wage laws, and federal job programs; the movements in support of the victims of fascism in Europe; the new industrial unions were all seen as threats by the big corporations which had brought the country to economic collapse after years of profiteering and widespread governmental corruption on behalf of those corporations. UE News, Vol. XXXVII, Issue No. 10
Type
still image
Genre
comics (documents)
comic strips
layouts (printed matter)
Subject
Strikes, Businesses
Source
Labor History Series (Series 13.3.1), Fred Wright Publication Plates (Subgroup 13.3), Fred Wright Papers (UE.13)
Collection
Fred Wright Cartoons
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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