An appeal to the wage-workers and business men of New York, 1888.

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An appeal to the wage-workers and business men of New York, 1888.

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The handbill appeals for donations to aid the striking Coal and Iron Company miners and appeals to the public to attend a sympathy and fund-raising meeting on February 12, 1888. It denounces company president Austin Corbin and calls the Reading "the most cruel and inhuman corporation in the country." The back of the handbill has been used to write an ordinary friendly letter.

1 sheet ; 28 cm.

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