HISTORIC RAILROAD STRIKE OF 1922 COMMEMORATIVE RARE BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$82.22
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:00:00 AM)
Auction:
Auction #205 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1426 in auction 205
Item Description
1.25" shows illustration of speeding steam locomotive with date "1922" printed over smoke coming from the stack along with surrounding text "The Big Rail Road Strike." Reverse backpaper by Phila. Badge. Only the second example we've seen and it was issued to commemorate the railroad shopmen's strike, by far the largest industrial conflict in the nation's history, when more than 230,000 workers walked out on July 1, 1922. It was also one of the longest strikes lasting more than a year in many places. Communist leader William Z. Foster called the strike "The Greatest Single Defeat Ever Suffered By The Workers Of This Country." NM, displaying Mint.
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