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The article reports on labor unions and art patronage with emphasis on artist Rockwell Kent. According to the author, Kent's papers showed the American labor movement and his attempts to translate his theories related to art and others. He was a member of the International Workers of the World (IWW), and other organizations that focused on the interests of working-class people. He became involved with the strike conducted by quarrymen and marble workers against the Vermont Marble Company. He was asked to speak at a public meeting to raise money for the striking quarrymen and marble makers. He also introduced a gravestone scheme and encouraged artists and writers to join in his scheme, and contributed some of his own money and sold or raffled off numerous art works.