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c1945/6 Tobacco Cigar Factory Labor Union Strike Broadside Charleston SC

c1945/6 Tobacco Cigar Factory Labor Union Strike Broadside Charleston SC

$400.00

American Tobacco withheld war time wages during record profits and were actively trying to discourage union membership (had been voted through in 1944) when 1000 primarily black women in the Charleston shop called action which resulted in a 5 month integrated strike.    While their eventual gains were seem as modest, it was a landmark show of unified workers voices...

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American Tobacco withheld war time wages during record profits and were actively trying to discourage union membership (had been voted through in 1944) when 1000 primarily black women in the Charleston shop called action which resulted in a 5 month integrated strike. 

 

While their eventual gains were seem as modest, it was a landmark show of unified workers voices in the Jim Crow South. 

 

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2500 workers of the American Tobacco Company in Philadelphia, PA, Charleston S.C. and Trenton NJ (Henry Clay & Bock Co in Trenton - a subsidiary of American Tobacco) are on strike for

 

Full Employment

65c Per Hour Minimum Wage

25c Hourly Increase

No Discrimination Against Negro Workers

Union Shop

 

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Measures 5.75 x 9” w/ Food Tobacco  & Agricultural Workers Union print line and union bug. Even toning w/corner loss top left and less significantly bottom right.