Hand-Painted Banner: Elect Communists! Kristalsky for Mayor

by Communism - Michigan

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

Hamtramck, MI : 1934 . Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm ca 3-1/4 x 26 . In red and black on a white background. Old stains and tape adhesions; complete and Good. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck, Michigan mayoral campaign, in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck, a working-class suburb of Detroit, was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression

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