The Workers Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 3, January, 1925
Chicago: The Daily Worker Society, 1925. The third 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 Alexander Bittelman, "Lenin, Leader and Comrade"; "The American Federation of Labor Convention" by William Z. Foster; "At the 'Red October' Candy Factory" by Anna Louise Strong; "The Rocky Mountain Miners" by Jack Lee; "History of the Russian Communist Party" by Gregory Zinoviev (translated by Bittelman); "Notes on the Shop Nuclei" by Martin Abern; "The Activities of American Agricultural Commune in Soviet Russia; "Consequences" (fiction) by Jack Wilgus; "The A.F.L. and Trade Union Unity" by William Foster and William Dunne; "Imperialism and National Movement in China" by G. Voitinsky. Plus a centerfold illustration by Fred Ellis, and other illustrations by Art Young, William Gropper, J. de Miskey and others.
Magazine format, 100-142 pp., illus. Covers nearly detached, holding at the top staple, faint staining to the front cover; a good only copy of a notoriously fragile title. Item #14401
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