Gastonia : a class case and a class verdict.
Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict is a 1929 pamphlet by radical writer J. Louis Engdahl, published in New York by the International Labor Defense to report the trial of striking textile workers in Gastonia, North Carolina. Its pictures are grainy halftone photographs: one shows a row of jury members in suits and hats beneath a bold, uneven headline, and the other shows five cropped, blurred head portraits in a line. A designer might take the heavy stacked display type and the rough newsprint texture as a model for protest broadsides.
