A' rest" [Strike Poster for the 1995-7 Detroit News Strike]

n.p., n.d. (Detroit, ca 1997?). Machine lithograph, 18" x 22", printed in black and red on white background. Signed by the artist lower right. Fine.

Poster published during the Detroit News Strike, when staff from Detroit's two major dailies, the News and the Free Press, striking over wages and conditions, left to form their own weekly tabloid, The Detroit Sunday Journal, which ran through 1999. The poster depicts four uniformed policemen forcibly removing a striking worker from the picket line, with the one-word caption "A' rest." On her website, Detroit graphic designer Susan Kramer identifies herself during this period "as an employee of (truncated) the Detroit Newspaper Agency, active member of the Communication Workers of America...and assisted in publishing the Detroit Sunday Journal." Another of Kramer's posters, "Standing Strong in Detroit," was sold to raise more than $30,000 to support the strike (see: atdetroit-[dot]-com/susankramer). (Inventory #: 54246)