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Industrial Pioneer
A Journal of Revolutionary Industrial Unionism1921 - 1926
The Industrial Pioneer was a monthly publication of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was published in Chicago by the general executive board of the IWW from 1921 to 1926, under various editors. The precursor of the Industrial Pioneer was the One Big Union Monthly. The editor of One Big Union Monthly, John Sandgren, used his position to wage war on the Communists in the IWW. When his editorials became too sectarian, the IWW replaced him as editor in 1931, and changed the name of the publication to the Industrial Pioneer. The new editor was a Communist, however, and this alienated the non-Communist majority of IWW members. He was removed as editor in 1922.
By the end of 1923, the IWW publications Industrial Pioneer and Industrial Worker were both nearly bankrupt. An organizer with experience in the Oklahoma oil fields, Frank Gallagher, became business manager for both. The Industrial Pioneer lived on, but after the 1924 split in the IWW, the union's decline as an actual labor organization is visible in the Industrial Pioneer, which became more purely educational and historical in flavor.
In the words of IWW historian Melvyn Dubofsky, the Industrial Pioneer is “one of the finest examples of the poetry, prose, fiction, art, and socioeconomic analysis produced in America’s past by self-educated working-class radicals.” The Industrial Pioneer reflected the strong influence of Marxism within the IWW, as well as an activist emphasis on workers’ emancipation through control of industry. One academic article that refers to the Industrial Pioneer describes this intellectual culture of the IWW using the library of John Edwin Peterson, a rank-and-file Wobblie: “Articles on the economic and technological development of the modern railway industry in the Industrial Pioneer were studied along with Pullman production manuals for the day when workers like Peterson would take over production.” This focus on analyzing the nuts and bolts of capitalist industry went hand in hand with a desire to eliminate the wastefulness endemic to capitalism. In 1920, the IWW created the Bureau of Industrial Research to address such issues, in part due to the influence of the technocratic ideas of Howard Scott. In 1921, a series of articles by or about the Bureau appeared in the Industrial Pioneer.
Some of the regular features of the Industrial Pioneer were a section called “The Question Box,” where readers wrote in to have their questions answered, a humor section called “Wobbles,” a poetry section, numerous cartoons, and a page advertising subscriptions to the magazine. In 1923, for example, one could order an annual subscription to the Industrial Pioneer, and receive a book such as Karl Marx's Capital, Volume I along with the subscription, for a total of $3.25. Prominent IWW cartoonists such as Maurice Becker and Dust were regularly featured in the magazine. A good deal of space was often devoted to fiction and poetry. As the initial announcement in the Industrial Pioneer’s first issue makes clear, the magazine dedicated itself not just to addressing labor and economic issues, but to providing a forum for “proletarian art.”
The topic of Communism was clearly important for the IWW. The first, pro-Communist editor of the Industrial Pioneer published articles by Communists like Solomon Lozovsky and Karl Radek, but was not simply preaching Bolshevism. While he is uncritical of Communist tactics in Russia, he makes clear that purely economic action is called for in the United States. A later editor, writing an editorial on the death of Lenin in 1924, provides a typical Wobblie assessment: he praises Lenin’s idealism, but notes that Lenin could not save the top-heavy “workers’ dictatorship,” which rested on the misconception that “all power resides in the state.”
Other topics treated in the Industrial Pioneer include relations between the sexes (Jennie Wilson, "Modern Romance," May, 1923 issue), evolutionary theory (J. Howard Moore, “Savage Survivals in Higher Peoples,” June, 1923 issue), immigration (“Some Anti-Immigration Fallacies,” October, 1923 issue), and race relations (“The Negro—A Subject Race,” April, 1924 issue). The Industrial Pioneer published some noteworthy figures in American labor history, including Eugene V. Debs, Bartolomeo Vanzetti,1 Ricardo Flores Magon, and Upton Sinclair.
Upton Sinclair, for example, was involved with the free speech fight that grew out of a strike in San Pedro in 1923, and the August, 1923 issue of the Industrial Pioneer covers these events. Due to Sinclair’s advocacy for free speech, the editor of the Industrial Pioneer wrote to Sinclair, and Sinclair wrote an article on "Civil Liberties in Los Angeles," which criticized arrests for "criminal syndicalism.” In addition, “The national office of the IWW began to give space in the Industrial Pioneer to reviews of Sinclair’s literary efforts and sought to enlist him as a California speaker in its campaign for amnesty for political prisoners.”
—Wiki
February 1921, Vol. 1, No. 1, Serial No. 1
CONTENTS
- The 'white terror' in Hungary - The Executive Committee of the Communist International of Youth
- Sunny California: land of romance and unemployment by Jack Gaveel
- Progress by Julia C. Coons
- The call of the IWW by H. Van Dorn
- Industrial Research, editorial
- "At the movies" by A Rebel Girl
- The development of tobacco growing by Chas J. Miller
- The International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions by A. Lozovsky
- The gates of tomorrow by Julia C. Coons
- Towards an international of action by George Andreytchine
- Dad-Burn-It's view of life by John E. Nordquist
- Report on Waste by the IWW Bureau of Industrial Research
- The bars say: no! by Edward E. Anderson (Written in Leavenworth Penitentiary)
- Evolution of the lumber industry by James Kennedy
- Fear not, organize!: an appeal to the lumber workers
- Be brave by John E. Nordquist
- International news by George Andreytchine
- Laborare est orare (Work is prayer)
- Truth by Julia C. Coons
- Technique and Revolution by G. Cannata
- The story of the sea by Tom Barker
- The defense situation by John Martin
- How I failed in my first business venture by "Operator"
- The scenery spoiler by Card No. 247770
March 1921, Vol. 1, No. 2, Serial No. 2
CONTENTS
- At the grave of Karl Liebknecht by Theodor Plievier
- The German martyrs and the IWW by Tom Barker
- Eugene V. Debs by Jessie Wallace Hughan
- The fiftieth anniversary of the Paris Commune by George Andreytchine
- The Industrial Workers of the World by Laura Payne Emerson
- Causes for war - 1921
- Industrial efficiency, editorial
- Industrial Research Bureau of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Life on the New York water front by Card No. 200824
- The inefficiency of capitalism by Charles Beard
- "Old dry bones" by W.I. Fisher
- Crafts on the sea by Julia C. Coons
- "California oranges" by J.A. Stromquist
- Technique and Revolution by G. Cannata
- The wastes of war by the IWW Bureau of Industrial Research
- The glass industry by Robert Grayson
- To the Russian Red Guard by Ralph Chaplin
- The story of the sea by Tom Barker
- Defense news by John Martin
- To Soviet Russia, an American workingman speaks by Charles Ashleigh
- Labor demands resumption of trade with Russia
- The Berlin Conference of Syndicalist and Industrial Unions by H. Van Dorn
- The class war in Spanish-speaking countries by Frank J. Guscetti
- The International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions by A. Lozovsky
- Book reviews
April 1921, Vol. 1, No. 3, Serial No. 3
CONTENTS
- Red Russia and the IWW: a letter from Tom Barker
- Toward a definite syndicalist policy (Extracts from articles by Angelo Faggi of USI, Salvador Segui of CNT, French delegation to the Berlin syndicalist conference)
- Two conventions of Italian labor by G.C.
- The status of organized labor in Soviet Russia
- For a concerted plan of action by H. Van Dorn
- Organization by James Kennedy
- On the threshold of the great work of reconstruction in Soviet Russia by Karl Radek
- The star is risen by Julia C. Coons
- Conference on scientific organization of labor and production in Soviet Russia
- How industry is managed in Soviet Russia
- From Berlin to Moscow by E. Bouwman
- The Australian labor movement by J. Morris
- What have you done with the old men by Berton Braley
- "Let's go into business" by A Worker
- Ship committees - a problem in organization by Card No. 804943
- The story of the sea by Tom Barker
- Defense news by John Martin
- The International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions by A. Lozovsky
- The stranger by Julia C. Coons
- The story of a hard workingman and his white-collar son by H.V.D.
- A real love story by John E. Nordquist
- A statement by Zinoviev on the relation between economic and political bodies
- What our readers say about the Industrial Pioneer
May 1921, Vol. 1, No. 4, Serial No. 4
CONTENTS
- First of May, 1921
- Supreme Court denies petition of IWW prisoners
- The son of man (Dedicated to all class-war prisoners confined in American jails and penitentiaries)
- The truce in England by Francis Davis
- All aboard for "normalcy"!
- George Hardy on the IWW (Letter written by George Hardy and sent by him from Russia to the Danish syndicalist paper Solidaritet, published in Copenhagen)
- Capital and labor by John O'Hara
- May Day, 1921 by J.S.W.M.
- The thirteenth convention of the IWW
- Secretary Davis urges "A fair deal for capital"
- The striker by Robert Whitaker
- How the IWW is organized by James Kennedy
- The W.W.I. by John Banks
- Mexico: its government and labor movement by W.J. Lemon
- Bow of promise by Julia C. Coons
- "Dust" on Mexico
- The economics of a patriot by Jacob Sherman
- The question box
- Prelude to propaganda by S.P.
- The majority: a one act play by Ernest Riebe
- To the labor organizations of the world! Boycott all goods made in Spain! by the Executive Committee of the Freie Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (Syndicalists)
- Wobbles
- The story of the sea by Tom Barker
- John Bull, the sacred cow and the golden calf by J.A. Loeb
- The international situation by H. Van Dorn
- Revolution: a creative process, a book review by S.P.
- General defense news by John Martin
- The river by Julia C. Coons
- Wasteful methods of distributing city milk by the IWW Bureau of Industrial Research
- A criticism by Card No. 473009
- What our readers say about the Industrial Pioneer
June 1921, Vol. 1, No. 5, Serial No. 4
CONTENTS
- George Hardy's report to the convention
- Notice to branches
- Flashlights on labor and revolution: an interview with Jack Tanner
- Proud of our class by Covington Ami
- In union there is strength
- A rallying call to all IWW members
- Open the shops and factories by Mary E. Marcy
- The Irish labor movement by Thomas J. O'Flaherty
- Scenes from a rank-and-file convention
- Siberian reminiscences by Capt. L.M. Beilin, M.D.
- Facts
- Spring and hope by Violet Kaminsky
- A convention of the union of union officials: reported and illustrated by our special correspondent I. Shothemup
- Unemployment and the way out by Jan Rus
- Organize! by G. Mills
- A heart to heart talk with railway workers
- On the south side by Jan Rus
- The ownerless slaves by Lestor
- "Go find a master": a fairy tale for working girls by A Rebel Girl
- The truth
- Wobbles
- "High spots" of the thirteenth IWW convention compiled by Roy Brown
- The question box
- The premier's dilemma by Francis Davis
- Special notice to branch secretaries and delegates
- Defense news by Geo. Williams
- Special notice to those who have loaned cash and liberty bonds to the bail and bond fund
- Book review by S.P.
- What our readers say about the Industrial Pioneer
July 1921, Vol. 1, No. 6, Serial No. 6
CONTENTS
- The class war on the railroads and in West Virginia by Jan Rus
- Wesley Everest by Ralph Chaplin
- The lesson of the British betrayal by Jack Tanner
- A preacher's solution by Hal Brommels
- The British miners come back by Francis Davis
- The rebel lads who won't come back again by Richard Brazier
- A worker looks at reparations by Hugo Schurtz
- The revolutionary movement in India from The Workers' Challenge
- Notice to readers
- Industrial depression
- Can labor unions function as revolutionary organizations? by H. Van Dorn
- Proclamation
- The thirteenth convention of the IWW
- Runaway slaves by Mary E. Marcy
- The international relations of the IWW
- To a factory whistle by S.P.
- Conference of the unemployed in Great Britain by H. Van Dorn
- The Hoosierfied can by Ralph Winstead
- Everett, November fifth by Charles Ashleigh
- For unity in the metal industry by Glenn B. Fortney
- "High spots" of the thirteenth IWW convention compiled by Roy Brown
- Book review by S.P.
- Is personal gain a true incentive by Jane A. Lee
- The roar (From "Factory echoes" by R.M. Fox)
- Address to the convention of the All-Russian Union of Transport Workers, Moscow by Tom Barker
- Wobbles
- The story of the sea by Tom Barker
- Defense news by the General Defense Committee
- Wastes in the coal industry by the IWW Bureau of Industrial Research
- Debs the dreamer by Ellis B. Harris
- One College professor who knew
- Hunting a job in the clouds by W.J. McSweeney
August 1921, Vol. 1, No. 7, Serial No. 7
CONTENTS
- Norway strikes!
- Soft hands by A. Miner
- International class unionism by George Hardy
- Sacco-Vanzetti: victims by Art Shields
- Crafty gossip
- Slopperene: it contains hog fat (Words by Jim Seymour)
- The ring around German capitalism (Translated from Die Rote Fahne)
- The educated Americans
- Industrial science and organization
- One union for all of us by Tom Barker
- The Rubiyat of El Vagabondia
- Waste by Walter N. Polakov
- The lunch hour gang discusses nationalism by J.E.
- Organization in the lumber industry
- Ownership developments in American basic industry by Perkons
- California agriculture demands industrial tactics by Mortimer Downing
- The spirit of Centralia victims
- Facts are universal
- Industrial unionism and the strike in steel by Robert Grayson
- The story of the sea by Tom Barker
- Tactics by Achef
- Economics in American universities by Max Lippet Larkin
- A letter from Russia by Card No. 418,588
- Nationalism and direct action in India by A Hindoo Nationalist
- Wobbles
- The British miners' struggle
- The question box
- Book review
- The International situation
- Defense news by Harry Feinberg, Sec'y
- Railroad juggling by Jan Rus
- A new periodical: the Marine Worker
- To marine workers of the world: organize to overcome the capitalist sea wolf
September 1921 (Vol. 1, No. 8, Serial No. 8)
CONTENTS
- An Organized Harvest by Wm. Dimmit
- Industrial research
- Economic Determinism by Mary E. Marcy
- Oil and oil workers by Albert Barr
- The American railway industry and its workers by W.J. Lemon
- Revolutions in industrial countries by Charles W. Wood
- Large and small scale agriculture by Wm. Dimmit
- The undoing of capitalist industrial management by Rosa Knuuti
- Industrial democracy by Justus Ebert
- Wowen war and the class struggle by Mabel Kanka
- Tramping the Northwest by G.R.
- Gary, the home of steel and efficiency by The Steel Workers Press Commitee
- Will Europe revert to barbarism by H. Van Dorn
- The labor movement in Greece: a compilation
- The workers of the near east by Joe Marko
- A volunteer on the Siberian front by John Korpi
- Wobbles
- Book reviews by Jean Cutner and Art Shields
- Defense news by H.J.
October 1921 (Vol. 1, No. 9, Serial No. 9)
CONTENTS
- The iron heel
- To members of the Industrial Workers of the World
- War in West Virginia by Art Shields
- The Negroe workers falls into line by Robert H. Hardoen
- Copper smelting by John Hammer
- Salting down the marine workers by Upton Hold
- An appeal for spokesmen by Robert Grayson
- Brains or brawn by Jim Morris
- "Justice": a bird's eye view
- The Work Peoples College by Rosa Knutti
- Memories by Jaze
- Starving Russia by Ralph Winstead
- Petrograd in July 1921 by Tom Barker
- Mohandas Ghandi and the soul force by P.D.E.
November 1921 (Vol. 1, No. 10, Serial No. 10)
CONTENTS
- The railway situation by F. McKinley
- Stumping the stump ranches by C.E. Payne
- Tieing the shot on the corpse by Upton Hold
- Panama and the Marine Transport Workers by Tom Barker
- Dual unionism and the closed shop in Italy by Angelo Boni
- The Red International of Labor Unions by George Hardy
- Words or weapons by John Hammer
- Metal
- As to lubrication by Nick Wells
- Paul Freeman
- A thought by Nuf Ced
- Planned action in the industries by Jas. H. Larsh
- The poet's corner
December 1921 (Vol. 1, No. 11, Serial No. 11)
CONTENTS
- Unemployment
- Moving the dirt movers by Waterboy
- Splitting the big drive by Wm. Dimmit
- Book review: The New Policies of Soviet Russia by Lenin, Bukharin, Rutgers
- Grabbing them young
- The cut glass industry by Richard James
- Three big drives in one
- Wobbles
- The janitors by John H. Fleming
- A personal squint at steel by Robert Maddux
- The Spanish-Moroccan war and the revolution by Theodor Plievier
- Tactics in oil by Nick Wells
- Work by Charles Gray
- Lecture III
1922
The January 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 12, Serial No. 12)
CONTENTS
- To Pioneer readers
- A few adventures in steel by Robt. Maddux
- Wobbles
- A conference for war by H. Van Dorn
- Light exercise and change by Ralph Winstead
- The question box
- Solidarity in America by Jacob Margolis
- The gentling art by Johu Hammer
- The longshore strike by Jaze
- Justice - Hell!
- Whitey Benson by Fred Mann
- Christmas at a price by John Gabriel Soltis
1923
CONTENTS
- The Red Flag by James Connell
- Up with the radical press! by Eugene Debs
- May Day, 1923
- The Barbo Fair by Mary E. Marcy
- Poem: The Cause by Bert Ullad
- The General Strike call by the General Executive Board
- Poem: Marching sing by Berton Braley
- "Organize the unorganized" by H. Van Dorn
- Poem: The struggle for bread by Martin J. Connolly
- In the grip of a dead hand by Vern Smith
- Go east, young man! by A. Sonnefelder, Jr.
- When the master's pocketbook is hit
- Tightline Johnson and efficiency by Wm. Akers
- Forcing the farmers off the farms by Justus Ebert
- Wobbles
- The real workers' international by D.W. Latchem
- The railroad container by A Civil Engineer
- Poem: Hail solidarity! by Covington Hall
- An analysis of graft by Hubert Langerock
- The electronic reactions of Abrams by "Observer"
- Editorial
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CONTENTS
- Smashing the chains of slavery by Vern Smith
- The ballad of Sandy McCole by Archie Sinclair
- What is industrial unionism? by Jacob Silbert
- The San Pedro strike by Art Shields
- Under the Iron Heel by R.F. Pettigrew
- The new migration: northward by Alois Sennefelder Jr.
- Poem: Escaped! by Ralph Chaplin
- For a mess of pottage by Henry Van Dorn
- Poem: The logic of today by Ragnar Redbeard
- The Marine Transport Industry by A Marine Worker
- Mr. Kyne joins the head-hitters by John Nicholas Beffel
- "R.U.R." by Rosa A. Knuuti
- On the San Pedro slave market by Fred R. Wedge
- Poem: Tribute to Ricardo Flores Magon by Mortimer Downing
- The electrification of American railroads by A Civil Engineer
- Book Review: "Negro Slavery"
- Editorial
- Poem: Leavenworth by A.E.
- The question box
- Poem: To labor by Charlotte P. Gilman
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CONTENTS
- The great agricultural workers' drive
- How to strike by Vern Smith
- A Ford slave speaks up
- Eighty-five days in irons
- The international situation by Henry Van Dorn
- Poem: "O, say, can you see?" by Brent Dow Allinson
- El Proceso Wilckens by Leone Esmond
- The significance of the modern city by George Williams
- Revolutionary history and the workers by Pasquale Russo
- Poem: Caliban in the coal mines by Louis Untermeyer
- Tightline Johnson goes to heaven by William Akers
- Savage survivals in higher peoples by J. Howard Moore
- Poem: A cry from the ghetto by Morris Rosenfeld
- Poem: The people by Tommaso Campanella
- Editorial
- The question box
- Rational living versus Abrams by Benzion Liber, M.D.
- Organization news and views
- Poem: Cry of the people by John G. Neilhardt
- With our readers and contributors
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CONTENTS
- Henry Ford for President
- San Pedro General Strike
- 110's best drive ever
- The modern Prometheus
- Harding's "Lettre Du Cachet" by Leone Esmond
- Super-power capitalism
- Judge Gary exposed
- The worm turns by Archie Sinclair
- Significance of modern city by George Williams
- Brockton Shoe Workers' Revolt
- How to strike by Vern Smith
- Labor turns to banking by Alois Sennefelder Jr.
- Tintinabulated Jazz band by Wm. Akers
- Interviews with hoboes by Jim Seymour
- Civil liberties in Los Angeles by Upton Sinclair
- Tony the immigrant by Pasquale Russo
- A visit to Liberty Hill
- Wages, prosperity, depression by Philipp Taft
- Industrialist vs statist
- Talking American
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September 1923 (Vol. 1, No. 5)
CONTENTS
- Steel Workers' awakening by Fred W. Bowerman
- I.W.W. steel drive
- When workwomen organize
- Internationalism at Detroit
- Ford wades in gold by S. Almazov
- Where wealth accumulates by Robert Grayson
- Ballad of the fifty-five by Henry George Weise
- Hell: a review by Ralph Chaplin
- Magnus Johnson
- Review: Parlor Provocateur by J.D.C.
- Whither Russia? by Neil Gordon
- The general strike by John Griffiths
- The passing of a great union by Harry Fisher
- Frank Lindroos
- The white terror in Italy by M. De Ciampis
- Health note
- Building the I.W.W.
- Facts for arguments
- The co-operative fallacy
- Modern science by Wm. T. Brown
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CONTENTS
- A modern general strike by Henry Hazard
- R.R. Company Union, Grecian gift by Julian Deuter
- "Rails": heart to heart talk
- Poem: The west is dead by Ralph Chaplin
- Labor hells in Dixie by J.W. Leigh
- Why are we discontented?
- Organizing in steel by Fred W. Bowerman
- In the domain of Standard Oil
- Story of a proletarian life by Justus Ebert
- Coming fuel and transportation trust by Edward E. Anderson
- The lads on the lakes by Card No. 416,897
- A visit to San Quentin by Archie Sinclair
- Immigration and national development by James Williams
- Henry Ford: a peculiar entity by Geo. Williams
- Wm. Mannings's "Key to Liberty" by Phillip Taft
- The man without a country by Covington Hall
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CONTENTS
- Packing House Workers' Plight by H.L. Stoddard
- The Great New Orleans' Strike by Sidney Terry
- Berry betrays New York pressmen by M.J.C.
- Social conditions in South by J.W. Leigh
- Minneapolis' amnesty meets by Forrest Edwards
- Tacoma, Lumber Capital of America
- Profit sharing and management sharing
- It's the workers who know by Fred L. Tiffany
- On dividing labor by Alois Sennefelder Jr.
- Making machines of bank clerks
- "Goose-step" in economics. Review by C.B. Ellis
- Joe Hill: a biography by Ralph Chaplin
- Wool, man's first fiber
- Textile worker in trimming industry by Del. U-200
- International drug stores by A Drug Clerk
- Chain stores arouse interest by Tom Duncan
- The next world tragedy by Neil Gordon
- Interesting current history. Review by Phil Taft
- Labor movement and I.W.W. by James Morris
- Portland A.F. of L. convention (Editorial)
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December 1923 (Vol. 1, No. 11) Part I
Part IICONTENTS
- Amnesty by Christmas
- California, beautiful and damned
- Nailing Christ to the cross ahain by H. George Weise
- Hypocritical California by Archie Sinclair
- Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin
- Apples by AG-1351
- Out where the Oregon rolls by Fred Pugh
- Steinmetz: a genius who was a friend of labor
- Fairy wand of the ages
- I.W.W. in convention assembled
- Modern industrialism by Justus Ebert
- Boss florists' industrial union by Aaron Weber
- Wreck of the silk special by James Lance
- Revolution in the air by C.M. Ripley
- A farmer sees America first
- Situation in Germany by Louis Bartha
- Retrenchment in Hollywood
- Russia, Europe's savior by Neil Gordon
- Conveyor makes shoe worker appendage
- The lynching of Bud Williams by Adam Noir
- Winter in working class families by J.D.C.
- Workers education: now or for future?
- As Pioneer readers see things
- Last letters of Joe Hill
- War and Christmas by Robert Grayson
- A worker's wanderings by John Ashburn
- Gompers and deportation by Forrest Edwards
- Christmas in Cleveland by Edward Lloyd
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1924
CONTENTS
- 1924 is beginning by Edward Lloyd
- Vision of new day in California by Archie Sinclair
- California holds the key
- The potteries of England by Wilfred Braddock
- Economic background of KKK by Hubert Langerock
- Wonders of modern science
- The widow, poem
- Other people's kids
- What might have been by James Lance
- Scandinavia's labor movement
- Greatest I.W.W. convention
- Wall St. Wolves and the Wobs
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February 1924 (Vol. 1, No. 10)
CONTENTS
- Three letters, full of war
- A migratory worker's diary by James Foy
- Europe: a new interpretation by Blair
- Why "red communism" failed by Neil Gordon
- An ex-service man's views
- The deportation mania: review
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CONTENTS
- The men of the lakes by James Lance
- Now that the storm is subsiding by Archie Sinclair
- The White Goods Girls' strike by Jennie D. Carliph
- General Construction workers campaign begins
- New Orleans costly scabs
- The Fords and billionairedom
- City labor vs. country labor
- French syndicalism in perilous condition by E. Mast
- What the movie photographed at Centralia, on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1919 by Ralph Chaplin
- Editorial: The death of Lenin; The rise of Ramsay McDonald
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CONTENTS
- Slavery exists in West Virginia by Edward Lloyd
- The immigrant and his home ties by C-4-226
- The negro: a subject race by Vern Smith
- Women and the IWW
- Crossing the Mason-Dixon line
- Lenin: toiler and dreamer by John Ashburn
- Large scale mining makes robots
- The abolitionists and the IWW by A Columbia River Rebel
- Ku Klux Klan tries intimidation by Harry Fisher
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CONTENTS
- May Day song by Ralph Chaplin
- International labor day
- No.744 missing in action by Eugene Barnett
- "Oh, for the life of a sailor!" by Publicity Committee, New Orleans Branch MTW of IWW
- The meaning of revolution by Archie Sinclair
- Labor under industrialized agriculture by James Lance
- A worker's wanderings, from Italy to South America by John Ashburn
- Rebel girls help the fight for solidarity by E.L.
- Hellish conditions in Eastern Kentucky by Alonzo Walters
- Learning from Henry Ford by J.E. and J.D.C.
- Their voices shall be heard though they speak in Spanish
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CONTENTS
- The political earthquakes by Neil Gordon
- The late Hugo Stinnes; Germany's real Kaiser
- Is industry slowing down? by Fred W. Bowerman
- IWW comes back in New England
- From the hell of wage slavery to industrial heaven by Pasquale Russo
- The land of sunshine and serfdom by Californian
- The efficiency of capitalism by J.A. MacDonald
- The crimes of capital by Frank Myers
- Brief editorials: A hold up; Undone by superwisdom; The pacifist outburst; The Farmer-Labor Convention
- A message to the IWW by Covington Ami
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CONTENTS
- Smoke wreaths and visions by James Lance
- The farmers and industry by John Hayhand
- "The dreaded yellow peril" by Sydney Weise
- Railroad work and railroad workers by Alonzo Walters
- The causes of unemployment by Justus Ebert
- Industrial unionism in building industry by Del. B4-11
- Childhood and the evil influence of capitalism by J.D. Carliph
- The new labor displacers by Joseph Ostrander
- The IWW at home and abroad
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