First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers LCCN2012647217, 1882

Title: first annual picnic of the "knights of labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers abstract: print shows jay gould, william h. Vanderbilt, cyrus field, russell sage, and john roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled "knights of labor" and "pittsburg free strikers" who are watching a man labeled "workingman" trying to climb a "greased" pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with "monopoly grease", at top are "higher wages, bread, tobacco, wine, [and] ham". The view from the pole shows factories in the middle distance and the "roach monopolist ship builder" facility in the background. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: illus. From puck, v. 11, no. 276, (1882 june 21), centerfold.;copyright 1882 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;title from item. Date: 1882.