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[Picture stores of Gastonia, N.C., labor unrest, 1929]: Mobilize to free the Gastonia prisoners – Historic Reproduction

[Picture stores of Gastonia, N.C., labor unrest, 1929]: Mobilize to free the Gastonia prisoners — historic print
[Picture stores of Gastonia, N.C., labor unrest, 1929]: Mobilize to free the Gastonia prisoners. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures [Picture stores of Gastonia, N.C., labor unrest, 1929]: Mobilize to free the Gastonia prisoners in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This cover from the September 1929 *Labor Defender* turns a local strike into a national call for action, with its headline urging readers to "Mobilize to free the Gastonia prisoners." The strike centered on the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, where textile workers walked out in 1929 over low wages and harsh conditions. After a deadly confrontation that spring, a number of strikers were arrested and charged, and the International Labor Defense, which published this magazine, took up their defense. The halftone reproduction shows how labor papers of the period used bold graphic cover designs to rally supporters beyond the South. The caption information in the record is unverified, so details of the image itself should be checked against the magazine.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes1929
SubjectsIllus. in: Labor Defender, 1929 Sept., cover. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Labor& Labor classes; NC--G-; BI; Strikes--1929; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,133 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136929

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