Pershing George (2 results)
Published by Saalfield Publishing Akron, Ohio 1919
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1919, 1st Edition, Early Printing, Book is VG / GOOD - Condition Dustjacket, Green Cloth with Black Decoration Illustration of 2 on Horseback & Lettered in Red on Front Cvr Light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight Clean light FOX TONING PGS Thruout,…Front DJ Fox Wear & Small Stain & Chip at Bottom Edge Yet the Illustration & Title are INTACT front DJ. Spine DJ Ends small Chips, Scuff but Titles Basically are There. 239 Pgs + ADS end with Ralph Marlowe Tale of Buckeye State, Back DJ light wear, Stain, soil Ads end with Handy book of Plays for Girls.
Published by International Newsreel Corp., 1929. 1929
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Condition: Very good. - sc The 8 inch high by 6 inch wide photograph depicts the young George Pershing from the chest up. The National Textile Workers Union organizer is handsomely attired in a dark three piece suit over white shirt and tie. This is a vintage photograph, likely reproduced from their newsreel footage, distributed… by the International Newsreel Corp. at the time. International Newsreel's credit line with their eagle logo is stamped on the verso. Once attached to the verso of the photograph, a sheet of paper on which is typed the text for a press release, accompanies the photograph. The text of the press release reads as follows:"ALLEGED RELATIVE OF GENERAL PERSHING, LEADER OF STRIKING FACTION.CHARLOTTE, N.C.George Pershing who claims and has papers purporting to prove that he is a cousin of Gen. John J. Pershing commander of the A.E.F., who is leader of the communist party who organized the local of the National Textile Workers' Union, (re-pudiated by the A.F. of L.) which is now engaged in a strike accompanied by serious rioting at the Loray Mills Gastonia, N.C. / B-4.5.29".One of several textile mills to strikes at that time, Loray Mills was the first in the country to be owned by Northern owners who sought to benefit from a poor white Southern labor pool who were paid far less than their Northern counterparts. Exploitation of the workers resulted in a wave of walk-outs and strikes, one of the most famous of which was that at Loray Mills. Not only were striking workers struggling against the mill owners but the Communist led National Textile Workers' Union, organized by Fred Irwin Beal and George Pershing was pitted against the A.F. of L.'s United Textile Workers' Union, which was not against using strong-arm tactics to gain the advantage.
