Historic Framed Print, The unemployed, 17-7/8" x 21-7/8"

Beautiful historic reproduction print from the Library of Congress collections.

Created 1914 Mar 10 publication date Inscribed in balloon upper left: We'll break into a church first. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: Clubb 14. [club logogram]. Title inscribed in pencil below image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.895) The image relates to a series of incidents that occurred in March, 1914 when members of the radical labor union, The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), began breaking into churches in New York City, demanding they be given food and shelter. The public, outraged at their actions, called the IWW a bunch of lazy men who would not work even if they could. Public indignation became even greater when the city offered snow shoveling jobs to the unemployed which were refused because the men insisted they be paid at least two dollars a day. Published in: The Rochester Herald, March 10, 1914. Published in: The image of America in caricature & cartoon. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth : The Museum, 1975, p. 116. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon Industrial Workers of the World: People: 1910-1920. Labor unions: 1910-1920. Snow removal: New York (State): New York: 1910-1920.

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