The lost labor artist

Five stunning paintings depicting labor organizing, pickets and the violence directed at workers in the turbulent 1930s were almost lost to history. The story of Philip Tipperman and how a small group of people saved those paintings.

On this week’s Labor History in Two: Massacre At Bogalusa.

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Picketed, Beaten, by Philip Tipperman, 1939