Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist famed for his depictions of elaborate machinery. Original hand-inked political cartoon on a 14.5 x 20.5 off-white sheet, and dated June 11, 1948. Strip depicts John L. Lewis, then president of the United Mine Workers, as a wet blanket being tossed over the following winter’s coal supply. Signed at the bottom in black ink by Goldberg. Lewis was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960. He was a major player in the history of coal mining. He was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s. After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, he took the Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942, then back into the American Federation of Labor in 1944. In fine condition, with usual notations and a touch of light soiling. R&R COA.
