JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This design has all the trappings of a modern right-wingish hatchet job screed publication denouncing and de-deifying the CIO (the other part of the AFL-CIO). As it turns out this gritty, demanding, and offsetting design is the cover for a pro-CIO publication, published by the organization itself. The shattered sky raining coal tar and blood is falling on what sorta looks like a collection of imitation Soviet-y working folks. To me the art indicts the CIO for something, and that “something” is not good. But inside it is all wine and roses and fighting the good fight for teh working class. It is just a very odd job, badly done.
And the back cover:
