The Workers Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 2, December, 1924
Chicago: The Daily Worker Society, 1924. The second issue of this Communist magazine following its name change in November, 1924. The Workers Monthly was the theoretical organ of the Trade Union Educational League and the newly established Workers Party of America and consolidated The Liberator, Soviet Russia Pictorial and Labor Herald. It ran until 1927 when it became The Communist, which became Political Affairs in 1944. Political Affairs ran until 2016.
This issue features an article by William Foster, "The Significance of the Elections: Three Stages of Our Labor Party Policy"; "A Visit With Sun Yat Sen" by Alfred Wagenknecht; "Latin America Prepares for Gompers" by Bertram D. Wolfe; "Struggle for Unity in the World Labor Movement" by A. Losovsky; "Progress of the International Unity Movement"; "The Labor Party Conference, An Unreal Assembly" by Harry Pollitt; "Roots of the British Minority Movement" by Tom Mann; "The Wobblies Meet Again" by Harrison George; "The Rocky Mountain Miners" by Jack Lee; "Is the Movement Towards Class Political Action Dead?" by C. E. Ruthenberg; "The Big Stick Gets Bigger" by Jay Lovestone; "White Terror in Europe! Can America Be Far Behind?" by Rose Karsner; "The Trades Congress of Canada and Our Future Tasks" by Tim Buck; "In Retrospect: A Critical Review of Our Past Labot Party Policy in the Light of the Present Situation" by Alexander Bittelman; a centerfold charcoal illustration by Fred Ellis, and illustrations by Kathe Kollowitz "German Under the Dawes Plan"), William S. Fanning, Hay Bales, and J. de Miskey.
Magazine format, 52-95 pp., illus. Tape along spine, stain to the bottom portion of the front cover, otherwise a very good copy of a notoriously fragile title. Item #14400
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