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They Shall Not Die! Stop The Legal Lynching ! THE STORY OF SCOTTSBORO IN PICTURES

Published for League of Struggle for Negro Rights, by Workers* Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City • Third Printing June, 1932 •

ABOUT GE As usual this must begin with an apology. It ’ s been two and a half years since the last issue was mailed out, and I'm sure most subscribers had w ritten o ff the loss on th eir unexpired sub. CE's appearance, then, is in the na­ ture o f a resurrection and should cane wonder and awe rather than resentment fo r its being la te . • There isn't really much in the way of explanation fo r the delay except that the last two years have been exception­ ally busy. Gerald Ford's elevation in the mob to the Vice- Presidency resulted in a special election for his Congress ional seat early in 1974, and this was followed in nine months by the regular election. The work involved in those campaigns combined with natural indolence la te r caused the delay in publication. Quite frankly CE is the easiest thing to put off; I get none of those shrill oral complaints. I wish to thank CE subscribers for their patience — o r resignation. Generally inquiries have m ildly worded, the exception being institutional subscribers, who sometimes le t an acid note creep into their letters, and especially sub­ scription agencies, which get downright unfriendly. CE w ill continue to be published — irregularly, but as often as possible. Certainly there Is no lack of material. The p ro life r a tio n 'o f l e f t wing groups assures the publica­ tion o f new. pamphlets. There has been a apprising amount o f pamphlet material published since the last issue. CE tries to keep up with the flood at least in buying those that are advertised where I see them. Some o f these w ill be described in this issue.

One difficulty with this issue is that much of the con­ tent is dated. For example, the lead a rtic le by Dr. David DeLeon was submitted two years ago, and since i t is a com­ pilation of current (then) publishers of anarchist lit e r a ­ ture, much of the information is probably obsolete, the l i f e expectancy of such publishers being what it is. The same problem holds true fo r advertisements in The Exchange. I am running a ll the ads, but readers must remember th eir age when answering them. An even more serious problem is that of address changes during the elapsed two and a h a lf years. To ensure that a ll subscribers receive this Issue, copies w ill be mailed f i r s t class except those for persons and institutions whose ad­ dress I am sure of. IF YOU HAVE AN ADDRESS DIFFERENT FROM THAT ON THE ENVELOPE, BEND ME YOUR NEW ADDRESS. The next issue w ill be mailed third class.

The first half of Dr. David DeLeon's article begins on the next page. I wish to thank him here for helping me out and also for his patience while I sat on his manuscript fo r two years. His subject is tailor made for CE. Readers who wish to make inquiries about the article can reach him by w riting to — History Department, University o f Maryland, Baltimore, 5401 Wilkens Ave., Baltimore, MD 21228.

1 BAKUNIN'S BOOK NOOK

or HOW TO ASSEMBLE AN ARSENAL OF ANARCHISM IN YOUR SPARE TIME

by David DeLeon History Department University o f Maryland, Baltimore "Anarchism has a broad back; lik e paper i t endures anything"

When I was a naive youth (several years ago), I lig h tly resolved to conclude my dissertation on "The American as An­ archist" with a chapter on contemporary Anarchist thought, thereby demonstrating that I was not a cloistered academic. I discovered that there are some perils to being a "relevant" person. The least of these was my discovery that the modern Anarchist literature in America is not, as I had blith e ly assumed, m icroscopically small, but immense. I eventually accumulated approximately 45 newspapers and journals pub­ lished during 1960-1972 alone. So, I am writing this to dis­ tribute the fruits of my initial inexperience. The first stop for the aspiring Anarchist affectionado might be his or her lo c a l lib erta rian bookshop. The long­ est-lived Anarchist publisher/bookshop is the Freedom Press in London (84B Whitechapel High St., in Angel Alley, London El, England). Besides publishing the weekly Anarcho-Commun­ is t newspaper Freedom — which dates back to the 1880's — and stocking the magazine Anarchy, i t has a number o f pam­ phlet publications. A perusal of their catalog would indic­ ate not onlysome available literature on Kropotkin and oth­ ers, but would give one a notion about what the Thinking An­ archist is reading these days. Another English group which has apparently c ritic iz e d the Freedom people as "pseudo-Anarchists" have their own bookstore, Libertaria Bookshop, 95 West Green Rd., London N15, England. Their catalog has more pamphlet litera tu re than does Freedom, put out by a more diverse spectrum of writers (Situationist, Individualist, Wobblies, New Leftists, women's liberationists . . . to name a few). In America, one source is the Hammond Book Service, Box 108, Upham, North Dakota (tru st me). /Well, it's still in North Dakota, but the new address is Herzog Book Services, Rural Route #1, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201 -- per a le tte r from the Hammonds dated 7/20/73^ This is not solely or even essen tially an anarchist book service, but a fas­ cinating hodgepodge o f recent social criticism . Hammond does have a separate "Anarchists and Anarchism Bibliography," and keeps some o f the publications o f Freedom Press, Friends of Malatesta, the IWW, and others. It has, overall, a su­ perb stock.

2 For fans of Anarcho-Capitalism (sort of Ayn Rand in ex­ trem is), consult the Hard Core Bookservice, P.0. Box 66321, Houston, Texas 77006. "The Hard Core Bookservice, form erly the E lectric Conspiracy Bookservice, was begun in mid-1970 by various Texas anarchists and libertarians. We hold to the belief that there is no true libertarian doctrine; there­ fore, you w ill find publications offered of varied lib e rta r ­ ian persuasions: Objectivist, free market anarchist, autarch- ist, syndicalist, individual anarchist, and communist anarch­ ist." Still, they tend to lean to the Right, with many books lik e The Market fo r L ib erty, and a rtic le s lik e "Toward a Theory of Property Rights" and "The Anatomy of the State" ("Murray Rothbard strips bare the nature of Government"). They also carry issues o f about a dozen periodicals, some of them now defunct. As they describe the Sunburst:"was just that; two issues only." Their posters range from "Vote for> Guy Fawkes — the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions" (vote? anarchists?) to "Capitalism — The Amer­ ican Ideal" (American fla g , with d ollar signs fo r the ob- jectivist who has everything"). A much more ambitious organization — now deceased — was Libertarian Enterprises, located in Richmond, V irgin ia . Just fo r the h is to ric a l record, I might note that th eir holdings were mainly those of the Laissez-faire Right, which is why they call themselves "libertarian" rather than An- archo-Capitalist. The last catalog listed over two hundred books, many of them available at a discount. The lis tin g s were neatly categorized into sections on economics, politic s , psychology, sociology, and even fiction. These included many Right classics by Bastiat, Hazlitt, von Mises, W. Cleon Skousen's The Naked Capitalist, William Wooldridge's Uncle Sam, the Monopoly Man (proof that "entrepreneurs provide bigger benefits than government o ffic ia ls — without laws, rules, regulations and ta x es"), and even some autographed copies o f Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged ( fo r a mere $295 each). In addition to books, Libertarian Enterprises had anti-post­ al monopoly post cards, about 30 pamphlets, subscription o f­ fers to various journals (such as The Lybertarian Lympoon) , Laissez-faire posters, laissez-faire T-shirts ("sca rle t and gray . . . give your libertarian philosophy visibilit y " ) and a charming Lysander Spooner poster ("p erfect in d ivid u alist counter to the Karl Marx-Che guevara cult"). Those who know nothing about Spooner (d. 1887) might find the quotation on the poster intriguing: Whoever desires lib e rty should understand these v it a l fa cts, v iz .: 1. That every man who puts money in the hands of a 'government' (so called) puts into its hands a sword which w ill be used against him self, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary w ill. 2. That those who w ill take his money, without his consent, in the first place, w ill use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to res is t th eir demands in the fu tu re." (No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority) .

Those who imagine that "the Right" consists s o le ly of

3 super-patriots, warmongers, ultra-authoritarians, etc . w ill find this Old Right, laissez faire perspective quit© a shock. Permit me one further quotation, which was the LE analysis of a book by the Progressive historian Charles Beard. Pres­ ident Roosevelt and the Coming of the War "demonstrates that the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War were nothing new in respect to the lie s and k illin g American twentieth century dictators have been willing to perpetuate to further th eir end of power. I t further shows that LBJ and JFK were merely cheap im itations o f FDR — that Vietnam was at best a second rate bungle compared to the masterful snow-job o f Roose­ velt’s". The catalog illustrates a curious juncture between the New Left and the Old Right in many of their criticism s o f American society. When Libertarian Enterprises folded, i t was bought up by Books fo r Libertarians (422 F irs t Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003), which had also acquired the SIL Bookservice (So­ ciety for Individual Liberty). BEL has a monthly newsletter ($3) reviewing nonfiction and fiction books and items of in­ terest to Objectivists, Anarcho-Capitalists, and lib erta ria n conservatives. It also publishes a catalog describing nearly 200 books and 32 audio cassett es that are available from BFL ($1). The books range from Murray Rothbard and Rand to to some New Left titles by Gabriel Kolko and Ronald Radosh. The cassettes cover many topics, from contemporary economics ("Why depression is 100% inevitable — and how you can pro­ tect your assets-"), history ("Our Isolationist Herita ge"), and recent controversy ("Youth, Drugs, and Freedom"). A more comprehensive source of Anarchist literature is the Laissez-Faire Bookshop (208A Mercer S t., NYC 10012). Their ju s tifie d claim is that they have "what is probsmy the largest collection of anarchist books in the world " (le tte r from proprietor to author). Write for their catalog; they stock everything from their own Individualist Libertarian Calendar fo r 1973 (illu s tra te d and a work o f art; the Right equivalent to the Anarcho-Communist calendar of the Solidar­ ity Bookshop — see below), a rather "complete" selection of literature, listed under the appropriate categories of In­ d ivid u a list Anarchism, Communist Anarchism, Mutualism, Syn­ dicalism , and so fo rth . Much of this has been produced by "small" presses. The proprietors are legitimately proud of th eir business. S t i l l , the selections tend to be Anarcho- Capitalist, such as Richard Grant’ s The Incredible Bread Machine ("a very useful basic introduction to the arguments that disprove the myths about capitalism; includes discus­ sions o f ’ the Robber Barons,' anti-tru st laws, Standard O il, and the D epression"). Novelties o f the catalog include some annotation, several book reviews, and a lis t of such buttons as "I am not a national resource," "I just want to be fre e ," "In Gold We Tru st," "Make Love and Money," "Nobody fo r Pres­ ident," "Taxation is Theft,"and "War is the Health o f the State." Hurrah for Anarchy.

(Here ends the f i r s t h a lf of Professor De Leon’ s manuscript, w ritten in 1973. Unless he objects to it s being published because o f the long delay, the balance w ill be printed in the next issue.)

4 DEFENSE PAMPHLETS I I As in the last issue o f C ollector's Exchange, the cov­ er and illustrations in this issue depict pamphlets issued to publicize the cases of various victims of 'justice'. These examples cover a period from 1906 to 1930 and were se­ lected at random with no particular plan except that they reproduce well. (One of my chief regrets is that so many re a lly striking and interesting pamphlets were given flaming red revolutionary covers, which can 't be reproduced by our plate making process because the red color photographs as b lack ). "They Shall Not Die" is a sixteen-page pamphlet illu s­ trated with rather sty lized charcoal drawings o f events in the Scottsboro Case. Although the sponsoring organization was the League fo r Struggle fo r Negro Rights, the actual pub­ lis h e r was Workers' Library Publi shers, the pamphlet pub­ lishing arm of the CP in the late Twenties and Thirties. The author of the pamphlet is n 't given; apparently i t was a collective effort, as this quotation from the intro­ duction by B.D. Amis suggests: The compilation o f facts in this pamphlet has been the result of the energetic labor of worker-artists and worker-writers. This pamphlet can help to build up the defense movement and spread broadcast the revolutionary working-class ideas of solidarity of black and white, and build a fighting alliance of black and white work­ ers as the only method that w ill force the bosses to open the prison doors that hold these youthful victim s. The sketches in this pamphlet were drawn by a work­ e r-a rtis t, A. R efregier, a member of the John Reed Club, - and were fir s t printed in the LIBERATOR, the figh tin g organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The running story that accompanies them was w ritten by Elizabeth Lawson, Managing Editor of the LIBERATOR. (I retract my statement; the author is given .) The text recounts the story o f the nine boys who were accused at first of fighting with whites on an unsegregated freight train and then later of raping two white prostitutes who also had hopped the freight. All but the thirteen-year- old were sentenced to death. The jury's m erciful sentence of l i f e imprisonment fo r the thirteen-year-old was s u fficie n t fo r the judge to declare a m istrial in his' case. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the CP took up the case, hired lawyers, and organized protests. A section at the end of the pamphlet denounces the action, or lack o f i t , on the part of the NAACP: In this attempt, the bosses were ably aided by the leadership of the National Association fo r the Advance­ ment o f Colored People. This group, fa r too respectable to enter into the case of nine poor working-class boys charged with "rape," had not stirred a fin ger u n til the

5 Published by the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 23 So. Lincoln Street, Chicago, III.

6 fury of the masses forced them to act. They then tried to head the movement in order to behead i t . They refused to have anything to do with the organizations defending the boys, the International Labor Defense and other groups. Shamelessly they lied about the facts of the case, tried to cover up the hideous crime o f the bosses against the toiling masses. The N.A.A.C.P. screamed with fury — but not at the lynchers. I t screamed at the workers, Negro and white, because they were throwing a glaring spotlight upon the lynchers and exposing the whole rotten cap it­ a lis t system. More — the workers were exposing the alliance of the N.A.A.C.P. with the boss-lynchers and th eir system. "The Z iegler Frame-up" is interesting, f i r s t because i t deals with violence in the Illinois coalfields and secondly because the author is Max Schachtman, at that time a member of the CP. Later he was expelled with other Trotskyists and helped organize the group which la te r became the SWP, which he left in the later Thirties, forming a new Trotskyist de­ nomination, which la te r joined the S ocialist Party. He died about a year ago. The Z iegler case seems to be a small-scale example of the normal means used by the United Mine Workers to keep miners in line. The 'Boyle' in this case was one 'Bu ll" Farrington, who ran District 12 of the UMW. The victim s o f the frame-up were anti union machine miners, who were in­ dicted for conspiring to murder a member of the Farrington machine a fte r one o f th eir own supporters was murdered in a union h a ll in Z iegler. The pamphlet is an appeal by the CP's International Labor Defense for help in the defense o f the anti-machine miners. The pamphlet is illu stra ted with photographs o f the principals in the case, including a picture of the burial o f Mike Sarovitch, the young Montenegrin supporter o f the anti machine group who was shot in the union h a ll. The cartoon on the cover illu s tra te s an aspect of this case which the pamphlet emphasizes: that the Ku Klux Klan was active on the side o f both the mine-owners and the union machine, supply­ ing the goons needed to keep order and, apparently, the o f f ­ icers o f the Z iegler lo c a l. The pamphlet is undated, but the contents indicate that It was published in 1925. 7i by 5^ inches, 32 pages includ­ ing wraps.

"Labor Leaders Betray Tom Mooney" was written to publi­ cize the efforts of the AFof L, particularly its Californ ia state organization, to keep Mooney in prison on the trumped up charge on which he and Warren K. B illin gs were convicted in 1916: the alleged bombing o f a Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco. As in so many of these cases, conviction was obtained through the perjured testimony o f prosecution witnesses. But the signed confession of one such fitn e s s in

7 Labor Leaders B etray Tom M ooney

A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS UNION FOR 29 YEARS

1916 1931

TOM M OONEY NUMBER 31.821 BEFORE ‘FRAMEUP" AFTER “ FRAMEUP''

"T o m Mooney is the victim of one of the foulest conspiracies ever perpetrated in this country, and it was done because he was active in labor circles in California.”

— United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler.

FIRST EDITION P R IC E lO c JANUARY. 1031

8 this case failed to move the California State Supreme Court or to secure a pardon from the Governor. Mooney and his defense committee blamed the AFofL lead­ ership, not only in San Francisco and California but also in the national hierarchy. According to the pamphlet, which names names and details cases, the typically corrupt jinion leadership had a ty p ica lly cozy and mutually advantageous relationship with the capitalists in San Francisco, a condi­ tion to which Mooney and Billings represented athreat be­ cause of their militancy and personal honesty. The pamphlet specifically lists President William Green of the A.F .ofL. and Paul Scharrenberg and Matthew Woll, two other national officers,as being hostile to his case and as actively work­ ing against him. His supporters included Henry Mencken, an associate justice of the California Supreme Court, various other jud­ ges and prosecutors, eleven of the twelve jurors in the t r i a l , the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, and some unions. The pamphlet sought to whip up enthusiasm fo r Mooney's fig h t. Here are the fin a l paragraphs: I f anywhere in America the old f ir e o f social pro­ test is s t i l l burning, now is the time to start a con­ flagration in behalf of human right* that shall sat the world ablaze with agitation for the unconditional par­ don of Tom Mooney, If labor Is not altogether lost to the challenge of this decision into the teeth of the courageous few who are trying to lead the worker* (???), i t now must come forward with a program o f action that will end the dictatorship of the plutocracy. If ever 3ac sa crifice was needed on the part of the workers and sym­ pathizers of labor the world over, now is the time to make i t . The deliberately studied insult to the workers of the world flung in th eir faces by the p erfid y o f the C alifornia plutocrats must not go unanswered, unchal­ lenged or unavenged. Mooney never received the support Haywood and Moyer aid in 1906, and despite the rhetoric, evidence that witnesses had perjured themselves, and other conclusive evidences o f his innocence, he wasn't pardoned u n til 1959. This is one o f several pamphlets published by the Tom Mooney Holders Defense Committee in San Francisco. F ift y pages plus wraps, 8f by 5 3/4 inches. The cover is s lic k magazine stock. The rest is the v ile s t kind o f newsprint, brown and brittle. Like all the illustrations, the picture is 75$ of the original size. I hope the photographs p rin t. This is the f i r s t time photos have appeared In CE.

The last o f these defense pamphlets, "The Haywood-Moy- er Outrage" is the e a rlie s t and easily the prize o f the lo t . The Wilshire Book Company, publisher of the pamphlet, was owned by Gaylord Wilshire, who also published Wilshire' s

9 Price 5c. a Copy Postpaid 100 Copies $2.50 THE HAYWOOD-MOYER OUTRAGE

The Story of Their Illegal Arrest and Deportation from Colorado to Idaho

By JOSEPH WANHOPE Special Correspondent for Wilshire’s Magazine, New York

CHAS. MOYER WM. D. HAYWOOD President Western Federation of Miners Secretary Western Federation of Miners

Published by the WILSHIRE BOOK COMPANY 200 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK

10 Magazine, a monthly tabloid devoted to sellin g "socialisn", golw nine stock, and various patent medicines, The back cover of the pamphlet advertises the magazine: "Is the leading S o cia list Magazine in the world" "Has a circu lation in excess of 300,000" "Finely illu s tra te d . Published Monthly" "Subscription Price: 25 Cents for a Whole Year" "Sample Free" The Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Case is a classic in labor History. Moyer and Haywood -were o ffic e rs o f the Western Federation of Miners, which together with Debs’ American La­ bor Union, the SLP’ s S o cia list Trade and Labor A llian ce, and some other groups and individuals had organized the IWW less than six months p rio r to the "outrage," which occurred in Jecember,1905. For readers unfamiliar with the case, here are the c ir ­ cumstances. The anti-labor ex-¡governor of Idaho, Stcunen- berg was k ille d by a dynamite charge place in his front gate. The cops arrested one harry Orchard. The state o f Idaho then hired the Pinkertons to investigate. They sent James 1.1clari,and of Molly Maguire fame. McFarland converted Or­ chard to C hristianity and at the sane time extracted from him a confession implicating the WFM officers and Pettibone. The "Outrage" was the kidnapping of the defendants by Idaho authorities in Colorado and carrying them off to Idaho to stand t r ia l. The three defendants were held for 18 months and then acquitted in a dramatic t r ia l. According to labor h is to r­ ians th eir acquittal was due almost en tirely to the active support o f American workers. Idaho justice was influenced by national political figures who feared repercussions at the polls. Even so strong a labor partisan as Louis Adamic in "Dynamite" was convinced o f Haywood's g u ilt and, in fa c t, compared him favorably to other direct actionists lik e the McNamaras, whom he accused o f hypocrisy. The pamphlet, 24 pages plus wraps — 9 by 6 inches, is fascinating. It was published, I would guess, in la te spring or early summer, 1906, before Clarence Darrow entered the case, for E.F. Richardson is listed as the defense attorney. It is illustrated with photographs, all the priicipals and even the ja il and ex-governor Steunenberg’ s house. The gate is a shambles. The advertising at the end lis t s s o c ia lis t phonog raph records at a dollar each Including one by Debs, "I/inning a World" in both cylinder and disc. Wahhope, whose portrait Is the only fu ll page picture in the oamphlct, must have been a real ass. He interviewed the three in ja il and ended the article with what must be the most pompous, assinine sentences in "s o c ia lis t" l i t ­ erature: 11 literature. It reminds me of the hero's style in the Ilora- tio Alger books. Here i t is : ^As we passed out of the sheriff's office, we thanked him in turn for his courtesy and civility. "Don't mention it, gentlemen," said that polite offic ­ i a l . "I must," said I. "That is part of my business as a representative o f WILSHIRE'S MAGAZINE, the greatest S o cia list monthly publication in the world." The pamphlet ends with an e d ito ria l reprinted from the April, 1906, Wilshire's Magazine, "Strike to Set Them Free" by Gaylord W ilshire. The concluding paragraphs illu s tr a te the inflammatory language the case produced: If the trial proceeds and if such a terrible event as the conviction by the s e rv ile minions of plutocracy should follow , and i f a single one o f our comrades, Haywood, Moyer, or Pettiboe, is condemned, i t should be the signal fo r the working class of America to rise — let that mark the date for the beginning of a (treat National General Strike. Let every working man who has a heart in his breast make a mighty oath that not a wheel shall turn in this country from ocean to ocean u n til the verdict is set aside and everyone o f the ac­ cused set fre e . Let our fa ctories be closed; le t our mills stop grinding flour, and our bakeries stop baking bread. Let there be a complete paralysis of railway and telegraphic inform ation. Let our coal mines close, and let us die of hunger and cold if necessary to make our protest heeded. The working class in this country have it in their power to sayto the plutocracy, "You shall starve to death i f a hair on the head of either Haywood, Moyer, or Pettibone is injured." Let us show the world that the workingmen o f Amer­ ica are not so lost to shame, not so devoid of the red blood of courage, that they w ill allow one of their comrades to suffer death at the hands of their enemies, when they have at th eir command a weapon which w ill set them fr e e . Hurrah for the General Strike. What is interesting Is that Louis Adamic quotes in his Jpook "Dynamite" a shortened version o f the quotation above beginning with "Let every working man..." and ending "Hurrah fo r the Great National General S trik e." and a ttrib ­ utes it to Debs in the Appeal to Reason. The militant rhet­ oric, monster parades and rallies, and a $300,000 defense fund did the tric k . According to Adamic the t r ia l judge in ­ structed the jury to acquit Haywood and the other two were freed sometime la te r . * * *

12 ::a -¡x , eiîie ls, abd aestlstics Unde-’ consideration here is a new com. ilation of pieces Marx and Engels wrote on literary and artistic subjects. 'Marx and Engels on Literature and Art," edited by Lee Baxan- d a ll and Stefan Morawski, d iffe rs s ign ific a n tly from the 1947 International Publishers edition of a Soviet compila­ tion titled "Literature and Art." For one tiling it contains a 45-pagQ introduction in which one of the editors, Stefan Morawsk^r^£2^f£§# collections of Marx' ari Engels' writings on the subject and various problems involved in elaborating a systematic philosophy of art from the writings of Marx and Engels. The book appears to be better organized than the I? e f­ fort of 1947 and to contain significant additions to that collection. Two flaws mar it, to my way of thinking. F irst the tabic of contents doesn't list the articles and passages published. Secondly much of the introduction is too tech­ n ical fo r the average reader. I t seems to be addressed to . specialists in the field of aesthetics and philosophy of art "Marx and Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of ’Writ­ in gs," edited by Lee Baxandall and Stefan Morawski, Telos Fress, St Louis. 175 pages, paper §2.95, cloth §6.95. Or­ der from 73L03, Department of Sociology, Washington Univer­ sity, St. Louis, Missouri-65150. Published December, 1973.

RADICAL CARTOONISTS "Art and Politics: Cartoonists of the Masses and Liber­ ator" by Richard Fitzgerald isaparticularly appropriate book to review in CE. The author, who teaches united States His­ tory and labor history at Laney Con a -e in f: airi and. C a li­ forn ia , has chosen fiv e caftbbnlsts: art Young. Robert Minor JoTnr Sloan, d. :. Chamberlain, an Maurice Becker. Each is t- -eated in a separate chapter which c out alls an extensive bi- o.-rap ile a l sketch besides the real meat of the book, a dis­ cussion of the- artistic and political progress (or regress) of each using the artist's cartoons to illustrate the au- thor's roints. A chapter on the Masses ana the Liberator dSlains the relationship of the publications to the left-wing movement during the ■ eriod 1910 to 1925 or thereabouts. The Masses, although it was regarded as a " socialist" publication, was owned and controlled by an editorial board consisting of radicals of various stripes who were financed by a few w ell- heeled liberals. To a s o c ia lis t brought up on ’Walter Stein h ilber's 'Week­ ly People cartoons, much of this work looks as innocuous as a Saturday Evening Post cover, especially some o f the John Sloan " irlie " Masses covers. But even much of the work o f such radicals as Robert Minor does l i t t l e more than c r i t i ­ cize the system, of t . n *ather m ildly. In cid en tally, among the .0 cartoons, a ll full-page, is minor's famous " or. ct soieicr" — the gigantic .mao-loss "recruit." 13 Richard Fitzgerald has combined a clear grasp of the person alities and p o litic s o f the time together with an un­ derstanding of the technical aspects of cartooning and draw­ ing to produce an in stru ctive and enjoyable addition to the library of the collector or labor history buff. "Art and Politics: Cartoonists of the Masses and Liber­ a to r, " (Contributions in American Studies, No. 8) by Richard F itzg era ld . 60 illu s tra tio n s , 254 pages, price $14.50. Published December, 1973, Greenwood Press, 51 Riverside Ave­ nue, Westport, Connecticut 06880.

CHARLES H. KERR AND COMPANY During CE's holiday the reorganizers of the Kerr Com­ pany have made progress in th eir stated purpose o f rep rin t­ ing old Kerr titles and aiding in the publicatfcn of new la ­ bor history material. For one thing they have published a "new enlarged edition" of their first reprint, Carwardine's "The Pullman S trik e." I t has been enlarged by a new 38-page introduction and a four-page annotated bibliography, both by V ir g il Vogel, one o f the directors of the Kerr Company. The intrduction provides the reader with background m aterial on the Pullman strike, the personalities involved, and the out­ come. Carwardine's book was published during the strike and is essentially a defense of the strikers' action on the basis of conditions in Pullman's little kingdom. 176 pages plus XLVII. Paper $2.95, cloth $7.95. Kerr has also come out with a reprint of "Walls and Bars," by Eugene V. Deb3. I don't have a copy o f the Kerr reprint, but in this case Kerr must have departed from it s policy of confining its reprints to out of print Kerr items, fo r the copy o f the o rig in a l that I have was published and copyrighted, not by Kerr but by the S ocia list Party, a l­ though the prin ter, John F. Higgins, was the same one em­ ployed by Kerr, and the binding resembles Kerr bindings of the time. It was published in 1927, and the introduction must have been one o f the lastith in gs that Debs wrote. I t is dated at Terre Haute, July 1, 1926, and he died October 20. It seems to have been published as a sort of memorial, for it includes this opposite the title page: A WORD The pen of the author of this book has been for­ ever silenced by death. To the suffering sould who vision l i f e only w ithin gray stone w alls, through cold steel bars, whose days are sunless, whose nights are starless, from whose melancholy heartshope has fled — to these, all of them victims of a cruel and inhuman socia l system, th is volume is rededicated in tender and loving commemoration of the writer by his brother and fellow worker. Theodore Debs

P rice: Paper $3.50, cloth $7.95

1 4 C.n. KERR k COMiAKY,COHT'D Kerr* has also reprinted "Crime and Criminals" by Clar­ ence Darrow, an old Kerr pamphlet that was immensely popular years ago. I don't have a copy of this edition. 48 pages, price $ 1.00. Besides its reprints Kerr distributes some publica­ tions of other organizations. One of these is "Sidelights: Incidents in the L ife of Eugene V. Debs" by Theodore Debs. According to the title page "This booklet is published by Marguerite Debs Cooper in Loving Memory of Her Father, Theo­ dore Debs, The Author of These Sidelights Cn Ilis Brother Eugene. The Proceeds from the Sale o f this Booklet go to the Eugene V. Debs Endowment Fund. Tile pamphlet is loaded with photographs. Besides fu ll page portraits of both Eugene and Theodore i t has pictures of Debs' home, in Terre Haute -- s till standing and open as a museum, Debs addressing crowds on his presidential tours, Debs as a members of a work gang on the ra ilroa d , and the like. The "Incidents" are sentimental glimpses of Debs as a public and private figure. 5-g- by 8-jj inches, 27 pages plus wraps. Price $ 1.00. The photos alone are worth the price. Kerr's publishing plans are contingent on a fairly rap­ id turnover of its stock or else other financial support. Apparently this has been a problem, witness a recent fly e r titled "Charles Kerr Fubl' shing Company: Pioneer Pub­ lis h e r to the Labor movement." ...K e r r's .or:; can only succeed with the help of every #pment of labor. Kerr thinks of itself as the publish- sr to the 'orking-class — he - -hole class — all seg­ ments of it. Kerr feels that vith the cooperation of unions and the various labor groups i t w ill be able to render a great educational service.... Labor organizations are askeu to associate them­ selves with the Kerr company in support of a fund which would be used to produce new works in the fie ld o f la ­ bor history find social and economic analysis from the viewpoint of the concerns of la b o r ....

LE TALOH DE PER

This is the t it le in French of "The Iron Heel," pub­ lished in 1973 (?) by Union C-eneral D'Ec.itions in a standard series of Jack London's books, o f which thirteen had been published and twelve were in preparation last year. The copies I have are in oaperback, a matched set with handsome­ ly designed orange covers, each featuring an appropriate i l ­ lu stration , in several cases portraits o f London. Host are translated by Louis Postif, and all have an introduction by Francis Lac as sin, the director c f the undertaking, who has" a good grasn o f the American labor movement and economic con­ d ition s in London's day. Go fa r as I know thre is no sim il­ ar paperback edition of London's work in his native tongue.

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/ Besides Lacassin's introduction this edition of "The Iron Heel" contains a comment on the book by Leon Trotsky, o r ig ­ in a lly w ritten in 1937 to Joan London and included in her biography of her father. Some of the other t it le s in the series are "The Roadj'J "The Love of L ife ," "The V alley of the Moonj'and "Burning D aylight." CE subscribers who read French and are interested in reading London's works with introductions that emphasize his in terest in and relationship to the American labor movement can inquire as to price etc, from Union Generale D'Editions, 8, rue Garanciere, Paris Vie,

MORE LONDON Londonism has also been enriched by two new studies of more neglected aspects of London's works, both published as Wolf House Books Monographs, The f ir s t is "The A lien Worlds o f Jack London" by Dale Walker, a comment on London's excur­ sions into science fiction and fantasy. Included are anal­ yses of both short stories and such novels as "Before Adam," "The Iron H eel," and the lik e . 48 pages plus wraps, $2.00. Wolf House Books Monograph Number Two, "White Logicr," by James I. McClintock is a well-reasoned attempt to trace a pattern in London's short fiction. The title,"White Logic," is London's term fo r the b itte r pessimism which was his ba­ sic outlook on life. According to McClintock this, togeth­ er with an occasional and ephemeral adherence to some salva­ tion lik e socialism or Jungian psychology, informed London's fic tio n ; and the heights of his enthusiasms and the depths of his depressions can be discerned especially well in the 188 stories that comprise his short fiction. The book, then examines representative examples. ’Well-written and in t e r ­ esting. 1975, cloth, 206 pages including a fine bibliography $10.00 from Wolf House Books, 1420 Pontiac Road, SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANARCHIST LITERATURE David DeLeon, author of the lead a rtic le in this issue, has also written "Threads in the Black Flag: A Bibliographic Outline of Anarchism" (Research Group One Report No. 12). The following excerpt from the introduction w ill describe the contents^

You should fin d in this bibliography - - somewhere — everything you ever wanted to know about Anarchism but didn’t know where to look. This is the most u tili ­ tarian, general reference for writings by and about An­ archists. The items were chosen on the basis o f a v a il- abllity(usually in English) and importance. . . . While the categories are usually self-explanatory, there are a few obscure listings. Writings by and about Tolstoy are placed under T olstoy's name in "Grab- Bag." This is not because o f my skepticism about his later-life qualifications as an Anarchist, but is re­ quired by by the paucity of lite ra tu re on Tolstoy the Anarchist,... The bibliography is organized under these general head­ ings: I. Bibliographies and Encyclopedias, II. General An­ archist Studies and Anthologies, III. Activists and/or The­ orists — this is the largest section and includes 13, among them Johann Most, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Kropotkin, Goldman, Berkman, and Tucker — IV. Some Events in America — Haymar- ket, McKinley Assassination — V. Grab-bag. 8j^ by 5|- inches; 24 pages plus wraps. This^not only useful but an attractive addition to a shelf of pamphlets. Red cover with a hand holding a black flag. Price 50/. order from publishers, Research Group One, 2743 Maryland A ve., Baltimore, MD 21218.

WORK IN PROGRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS N eil K. Basen, Dept o f History, University of Iowa, Io­ wa City, IA 52240, is doing research on Kate Richards O'Hare- Cunningham and her contributions to the socialist and prison reform movements. He would appreciate any primary source materials regarding O'Hare during the period 1900-1948. From Michael Stephens, P.0. Box 284, C otati, CA 94928. "...s till not done with my Kerr bibliography; it's somewhere in the limbo of annotations I have a couple of items to mention to you. First, P.M. Books in San Francisco is assembling a l i s t o f pamphlets they intend to s e ll. I t should be done by the end o f summer (1975). Thought you may want to write for a copy; their ad­ dress is 728 Vallejo St., San Francisco, CA 94133. (Although Michael Stephens' Kerr bibliography is in limbo in the main, a portion of it has been completed. About a year ago I re­ ceived his nine-page, annotated bibliography of Kerr's "Pock­ et Library of Socialism" and a fascinating four-page in tro­ duction to it.) From Lee Baxandall, 79 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10003 — I'm writing on early socialist culture in the US. I can use both publications by and information about the follow in g: Marcus Hitch (Who was he? and does anyone have a copy of his ,rGoethe's Faust: A Fragment of Socialist C ritic ­ ism," Kerr, 1908, that I could buy? Or anything else that he wrote on literature and culture?) Julius Hopp (Editor o f "Socialist Theater," 1908, New York, just one issue that I know of). May Beals (editor of "The Red Flag," a socialis t literary journal published from Abbeville, Louisiana in 1907- OS, and a frien d, i t 's said, of Jack London. She published a book o f short stories through Kerr, that I 'd lik e to buy too). Louis Fraina, his early writings (pre-1919) when he was a New York City SLP organizer and very actively w riting about drama, art, and literature. Robert Koehler (earlie s t US proletarian painter, of. his "The Strike" of 1886; a fte r 1893 t ill his death in 1917, Director of the Minneapolis

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4 School of A rt). Charles H. C a ffin , (died. 1918, S o cia list w riter on p ain tin g). Ernest Crosby (1856-1907), SP w riter on drama etc. Oscar L ovell Triggs (author of "The Changing Order," 1905; close to Wm. Morris and to Whitman in culture) Prom Kenneth Cloke, 116 Fraser Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405. . . . I am doing a dissertation on Communism, Labor, and Lav/ -- concerning,among other things, changes in le g a l defense strategies from the late '20's and '30's through the 1960's. Consequently, I am extremely interested in defense organizing, attitudes toward law and state, relationships betv/een lawyers, clients, and political organizations, i l l e ­ g a lity , etc. Can you suggest anything further as source material? I have no problem with the 60's, but fin d scarce­ ly anything available on the earlier periods. Thanks fo r any assistance you can give.

A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE PAMPHLET "Defend the Garment Factory 14" is a publication of the Black Prisoner Defense Committee, 405 S.W. 8th Ave., Gaines­ v i l l e , Florida 32601. "Labor and materials donated by the "Burning Spear"staff, P.0. Box 369, Archer, Florida 32618. "The Burning Spear" is the monthly newspaper o f the African People's Socialist Party. Published in December,1973, the pamphlet sought to gain , support fo r fourteen black inmates of the Florida State P ri­ son in Starke who had been involved in a riot in the prison's garment factory in A p ril, 1973. The 14 were among 41 who barricaded themselves in the factory a fte r the r io t and re­ fused to leave until their safety had been guaranteed by the warden. The pamphlet t e lls a fam iliar tale o f prison oppres­ sion in general and racism in particular. Also detailed are some of the efforts to gain publicity fo r the case. These include a 38-mile march from Gaines­ ville to the prison and also a press conference held October 19 in Gainesville by Angela Davis and Joseph Waller J r., chairman of the Black People's Socialist Party and himself facing reimorisonment fo r "tearing down a racist mural" in St. Petersburg City Hall. An ed ito ria l in "The Burning Spear"issue o f November, 1973, gives some background on the BPSP: The Burning Spear was o rig in a lly published in 1969 as the political arm of the Junta of Militant Organiza­ tions (J0M0). Due to a lack of division of labor and external attacks on JOMO (imprisonment of National Chairmen Joseph Waller and Connie Tucker and other mem­ bers) J0M0,in 1971, along with the "Burning Spear"fold- ed. The 2-| years since the folding saw the merger of three Black groups: JOMO, the Black Study Group of Gainesville, and the Black Rights Fighters of Ft. Myers to form the African People's S ocialist P a r ty .... by 8-jj inches, 16 pages including wraps, i l . , no price 18 THE EXCHANGE Wanted: Counsel fo r the Damned: A Biography o f George Francis Vanderveer by Lowell S. Hawley and Ralph B P otts, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1953. G. Smith, Box 346, No. Conway, N.H. 03860 For Sale by John Keeley, 48-26 41st S t., Long Island City, N.Y.-11104: Bisociallsm (The Reign of Man at the Margin), by Oliver R. Trowbridge, 1903, Moody Publishing Co., Chicago, cloth ; The Coming Revolution by Henry L. C a ll, 1896, New York, (Mentions People's Party movement in introduction) cloth; Changes in the Theory and Tactics of German Social Democracy by Paul Kampffrueger, Kerr; A.B.C. of Socialism by I.G . Savoy and M.O. Teck, N.E. Socialist Party, Boston, 1915, cloth; The Collapse o f Capitalism by Herman Cahn, 1919, Kerr, cloth; Lawless Wealth, Charles E. Russell, 1908, N.Y., cloth; The L ife o f Debs by Louis Kopelin, Appeal to Reason pamphlet, Girard, Kansas, 120 pp., 1920 Declaration o f Principle of S.P. U.S.A.; The Chosen Nation by Irwin St. John Tucker, 1919, Chicago, autographed in ink to Robert Morss Lovett — com­ pleted poem during trial for "conspiracy to obstruct the draft", 45 pp.; Poems of a Socialist Priest, Irwin St. John Tucker, 1915, Chicago, 61 pp., illustrated by Dorothy O'Rielly Tucker; Debate — Which Road fo r American Workers?, Norman Thomas vs. Earl Browder, January, 1936, S o c ia lis t Call Pub­ lishers, 46 pp.; Draft for a Program for the Socialist Party of U.S.A. by L eft Wing, Oct. 19-20, 1935, November, 1935, pub­ lished by Socialist Call, 31 pp.; Present-Day Socialism , Mor­ ris Hillquit, Rand School, 1920, N.Y., 84 pp.; Hands o ff Mex­ ico by John Kenneth Turner, Rand School, NY, 1920, 74 pp.; The Heritage of Debs — The Fight Against War, 34 pp., Chicago, 1935, Socialist Party, National Office.(some of Debs' speeches Canton Speech & Speech to Jury. Wanted by John Keeley, 48-26 41st S t., Long Island City, N.Y. 11104: Lessons of October, L. Trotsky, Pioneer Publishers, 1937, cloth only; The History o f the Russian Revolution to B rest-Lltovsk, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1919, cloth only; Trotsky, Draft Program of the C .I., Pioneer Publishers?, 1930, cloth only; Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution, Pioneer, cloth; Marx, The Holy Family, Moscow edition, 1956, cloth ; Trotsky, Between the Red and the White, London, 1919, cloth .

BOOKS FOR SALE: GOLDMAN (Emma) Patriotism : A Menace to Liberty, iff, Mother Earth (cl908), Pamphlet, cover mended, $6.50; HAL- LER (Frederick) 'Why the Capitalists?, Buffalo, 1914, 1st E d i-I tion, $7.50; BURROWES (Peter E.) Revolutionary Essays, etc, NT, 1903, 1st Ed. $10.00; Simonson (flustave) A Plain Examin­ ation of Socialism , London, 1900, 1st Ed. $8.50; LE ROSSIGNOL (James Edw.) Orthodox Socialism, NY, 1907, 2nd Ed., $5.00; WOOLSEY (Theodore D.) Communism & Socialism, NY, 1880, 1st Ed., $10.00; CLARK & SIMON, Labor Movement in America, NY, 1938, 1st Ed., $10.00; LLOYD (Henry D.) Country Without Strikes, NY, 1900, 1st Ed., $8.50; CORY (Herbert E.) The In- T ellectu ajs and the 'Wage Workers: A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis, NY, 1919, 1st Ed., $12.50; VAN VORST (nrs John & Marie) The Woman Who T o ils, NY, 1903, ls t Ed., $7.50; GRAHAM (Margaret) Swing S h ift, NY, 1951, ls t Ed., $7.50;

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HEYM (Stefan) GoIdsborough, NY, 1954, 1st Ed., $8.50; HAL- PER (Albert) Union Square, NY, 1933, 1st Ed., $8.50; WEATHERWAX (Clara) Marching, Marching, NY, 1935, 1st Ed., $8 .50; A ll books lis te d are In very good collecta b le con­ dition. Prices are postpaid. Cash with order, please. We s e arch for-hooks for serious collectors of Socialistic, Rad­ ic a l, and Labor History L iteratu re. R.F. PEROTTI, Rare & Out-Of-Print Books, P.0. Box 589, State College, Pa. 16801

WANTED; A copy, new or used, of "The I.W.W.: Its Firs t F ift y Years" by Fred Thompson. Walter Robbins, 1323 S. Magnolia, Palestin e, TX 75801. FOR; SALE: David DeLeon, "Threads in the Black Flag: A Bib­ liographic Outline o f Anarchism" (Report #12, 50^), and oth­ er publications from Research Group One, 2743 Maryland A ve., Baltimore, MD 21218 (also distributors of over> 40 tapes for the Great Atlantic Radio Conspiracy). WANTED: Materials dealing with radical, ethnic, and m inority groups and persons in the United States and Canada. Norman Lederer, Administrative Director, Menard Junior College, M errill, Wisconsin 54452. ***** A FINAL WORD ABOUT CE I hope that this issue of CE marks the renewal of fa i r ­ ly frequent CE publication, but I can't guarantee anything. At the rate it's being published now, some subscribers won't get their investment out until 1984. Understandably some subscribers w ill be reluctant to renew their subscriptions to the tune of three dollars worth. For this reason anyone is welcome to subscribe or renew a sub fo r as short a time as he wishes at 50^ per issue. Beginning with this issue the address labels have on them the number of the issue with which the sub expires. The current issue is number 8. If your label carries the number 8, your sub expires with this issue, and an envelope and subscription blank are enclosed. From this point forward a ll adyei-t-^ging in the "Ex­ change" w ill be fr&ft- whether or not the advertiser is a sub­ scrib er. The last issue of CE had the beginning of a review or critical article on the A.I.M.S. publication "The Life and TimeB of Daniel De Leon." The rest of the article, some five pages, has been written for some time, but there was so much catching up to do in this issue that it has been post­ poned for the next. Also ready for the next issue if he agrees to it s publication is Mike Stephens' bibliography o f the Kerr "Pocket Library o f Socialism" series amounting to over twelve pages. These together with the second h a lf of David DeLeon's bibliography provide copy fo r the next issue. 2 0

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