Youth Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1953
New York: Labor Youth League, 1953. The first and only issue of the Labor Youth League’s magazine. Includes an editorial by Wendell Addington, articles by Martha Harris (“Stalin, the Youth and Peace”), national chairman, Leon Wolfsy (“Youth and the New Administration”), Gus Hall (“On Leadership Training,” a previously unpublished article, the text of his guest speech to the N. Y. state convention of the Labor Youth League, May 19, 1951), LYL National Council (“For Alertness: Against FBI Provocations and Frame-Ups in the Youth Movement”), Roosevelt Ward, Jr. (“Young Negro Cultural Workers: The Problems and the Task”), and by a group of young auto workers in Michigan (“Problems of Auto Youth). The issue concludes with book reviews, which includes The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank.
The LYL was founded in 1949 under the aegis of the Communist Party and was essentially a continuation of American Youth for Democracy. It dissolved in 1956.
Stapled, illustrated wrappers (9” x 6”), 38 p., illus. Toning to wrappers, else Near Fine. Less than a dozen institutional holdings of this issue in OCLC. Item #9868
Price: $100.00