LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 28137
1936
Pennsylvania
Occupation: Mining
Collection: Union
The October 1936 miners' election rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was addressed by both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis. This was during Roosevelt's campaign for a second term. He had won the heartfelt support of mine workers and all sections of the labor movement by fostering the most far-reaching pieces of labor and social legislation in our nation's history.
 
Image courtesy of the United Mine Workers of America.
 
See the Labor Arts exhibit Sixteen Tons for related images.
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