(RAIL WORKERS) Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America banner

Sale 2223 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 2,160

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(RAIL WORKERS.) Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America banner for Minnehaha Lodge No. 299. Painted silk banner over linen with embroidered fringe, 52 x 35 inches, on a contemporary 44-inch roller with original 122-inch tasseled rope; silk worn and cracked with small areas of loss; depicts crossed hammer and wrenches (the union symbol) and the partial union label of the Painters and Paperhangers. Minneapolis, MN, circa 1920s or 1930s?

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Minnesota Socialist leader Carl Skoglund (1884-1960) was a mechanic in the non-union Pullman rail yard in Minneapolis, and became a founder of this lodge when the federal government assumed control of the yard during World War I. He was blacklisted on the railroads after an unsuccessful 1922 strike, and was later a leading figure in founding the Socialist Worker party. This banner would seem to date from the early years of this historic local.