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Vintage CULTURE CRUSH Cut Smoking Tobacco Canister with Knob Lid - Very Rare

$ 78.67

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Good condition as pictured, normal wear. Sold as pictured
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    Description

    Antique Culture Crush Cut Smoking Tobacco Canister with Knob Lid. Condition is "Used".
    In storage for years and now downsizing.
    Early tin
    o
    ffset lithography
    humidor style tobacco canister for “Culture” brand (Scotten Dillon Co., Detroit).  I searched and searched and this "Knob Lid" seems very rare and hard to find.
    Canister has the original sticker "Tobacco Workers International Union"
    :
    The Tobacco Workers International Union, founded in 1895, fought
    to end the use of child labor in the tobacco industry, and to improve working conditions.
    Working conditions in tobacco factories of Richmond, Virginia were very poor in the 1920s and 1930s, with two writers stating that conditions had "changed very little since the days of slavery." These writers also claimed that Tobacco Workers International Union (TWIU) in Richmond at that time was "entirely ineffective and openly collaborated with the employers." Eventually, in 1937, the “Southern Negro Youth Congress”, a wing of the CIO's National Negro Congress, established the Tobacco Stemmers' and Laborers' Industrial Union (TSLIU) in Richmond, and these unionization efforts spread to other local workplaces. In 1978 the TWIU merged into the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union. The TWIU organized at the Liggett and Myers tobacco plant in Durham, North Carolina for many years around issues of seniority and civil rights.
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