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SOLIDARITY: Official Organ of the Workers International Relief, American Section. 2 Issues. ["New Gastonia Tent Colony of Workers International Relief".]
Stokes, Rose Pastor; Wagenknecht, Alfred; Garlin, Sender; Pollack, Sylvan A., editor.
Published by New York, NY: The Workers International Relief, 1929., 1929
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Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. New York, NY: The Workers International Relief, 1929., 1929. Good. - Folio, 16-3/4 inches high by 11-3/4 inches wide, folded down to 6-1/4 inches high by 11-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, two issues bound in printed wrappers. Volume 1, Number 2, consists of 4 pages profusely illustrated with photographs and Volume…1, Number 3, consists of 8 pages profusely illustrated with photographs plus a 4-page advertising insert. Folded horizontally across the center. Several tears at the folds have been repaired with clear document tape. Good. RARE. Volume 1, Number 2 was published in June of 1929. Three photos on the cover sheet picture "Food, tents and medicines for the Gastonia Textile Strikers to help them organize and win their strike is now a slogan of workers everywhere". There are 6 photos on page 4: "Demonstration in front of the New York office of the Manville-Jenckes Co.", "Left and right photos are of textile strikers evicted from the company owned houses of Gastonia, N.C. They were thrown out in the rain and mud.", "Negro workers at a picnic held in Gastonia, N.C. arranged by the Workers International Relief.The W.I.R. stands for a united struggle by Negro and white workers.", "Gastonia, N.C. strikers with food distributed by the W.I.R." Among the articles in this issue are "Gastonia as a Lesson in Americanism" by L. Landay, "Many Starve in Kinloch: Miners Victims of Bosses Greed" by Jack Lee, and "Summer Camps for Workers Children" by Rose Pastor Stokes. Volume 1, Number 3 was published in August of 1929. The "New Gastonia Tent Colony is pictured on the front wrapper. Other photos in this issue include "(Fred) Beal's Father Greeted at W.I.R. Tent Colony", Amy Schechter "Held For Murder", "Workers at the new headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union.", "No Paunch Bellies Here.Food distribution day.". Among the articles in this issue are "Brass and Gas in Gastonia" by Alfred Wagenknecht, "Gastonia and Negro Children Given Vacation" by Rose Pastor Stokes, "Food Workers Fight For Food!" by Michael Obermeier, and "Relief Activities in Pittsburgh District" by F. Plotkin. Amy Schechter, a writer for the Daily Worker, was called "one of the most ardent among the New York radicals" by the New York Times. Sender Garlin (1902-1999) was an American journalist on the staff of the Daily Worker. As a feature editor there he oversaw Woody Guthrie's column, "Woody Sez". Alfred Wagenknecht (1881-1956), a Marxist activist, played an important role in the establishment of the American Communist Party. A pacifist, he opposed America's entry into WWI and was charged with illegally obstructing the draft. He was sentenced to a year in prison. In 1925 he produced a semi-fictional silent film, "The Passaic Textile Strike". Rose Pastor Stokes (1879-1933) was an American socialist and feminist. She was a founding member of the Communist Party of America and an advocate for birth control. The W.I.R. was supported by numerous intellectuals including Henri Barbusse, Maxim Gorki, George Gross, Kathe Kollwitz, George Bernard Shaw and Upton Sinclair.
