circa 1902 Coal Strike - President Theodore Roosevelt - Advertising Trade Card
C. Schmidt & Sons' Pilsner and Puritan Beer / Mulherin & Sons' Gibson Pure Rye Whiskey
"Mr. President and Gentlemen: ... unable to settle this strike...... Scales of Justice .... George Washing Dasch, 920 Market St., Phila."
Coal strike of 1902, by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern PA.Pictured (as best as I can tell) via a "photo-shop" trick photograph which merged images from the period:President Teddy Roosevelt / John Mitchell, President of the UMWA / Right: ? J. P. Morgan - G.W. Dasch ?
George F. Baer, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad / John Markle (G.B. Markle & Co.)
? T.P. Fowler (Scranton Coal Co. & Elk Hill Coal & Iron Co.) - ? Woman & Child with Coal ash bucket pailGeorge Washington Dasch Restaurant and Cafe, 920 Market St., Philadelphia, PA
"Next to the Post Office - Business Men's Lunch Room / Ladies While Shopping / Charles Ambacher, Manager"RARE - Political "Current Event" Parody Advertising Trade Card:
Incredible Social Commentary and Satire Humor used in trade card advertisement for Whiskey, Beer, Saloon, etc.NOTE: The Coal Strike of 1902: Turning Point in U.S. Policy (J. Grossman / U.S. Department of Labor)
"On Friday, October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meetingat the temporary White House at 22 Lafayette Place, Washington, D.C. A great strike in the anthracitecoal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. The President feared "untold misery . . .with the certainty of riots which might develop into social war." Although he had no legal right to intervene,he sent telegrams to both sides summoning them to Washington to discuss the problem.... See More 1800's Political, President, Exposition, etc. ...Click: (( MORE PATRIOTIC ))
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