"At a time when the proliferation of cheap newspapers and magazines was designed to strike the lowest common denominator of popular taste, the Tobacco Plant did its substantial bit to maintain a lively interest in literary topics among ordinary middle-class readers. Seldom, before or since,...

"To the millions of workingmen and workingwomen of this country to who justly belongs the wealth created by them, this volume is dedicated." — Terence V. Powderly Thirty Years of Labor Terence V. Powderly (1829 - 1924) Columbus, OH: Excelsior Publishing House, 1889 First Edition HD8066 P72 Before Labor Day became...