Skeptical Trade Unionists

Skeptical Trade Unionists

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Skeptical Trade Unionists

East Germans – Behind the Wall


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 1/8 in. (16 × 23.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0051
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: (East Germans) 9/61 10) SKEPTICAL TRADE UNIONISTS listen to official \ speaking at a meeting in the Warnow Works at Warnemunde. \ Trade Unions are Party controlled but no all members are \ convinced Communists. Now that the Berlin border has been \ sealed, Communist Boss Ulbricht expects increased produc- \ tion in the same hours for the same pay, a move which \ formerly would have increased the flow of refugees toward \ Western Germany. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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