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BOOK CATEGORY: Labor History Douglas, Jack. Foreward by John Dos Passos Veterans on the March Description: viii, 376 pp, with index. Red cloth, spine title gilt. 12 pages of b&w photos. Slightly musty. Godfried, Nathan WCFL, Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78 Description: xix, 390 pp. 12 pp. of illustrations follow page 130. Includes appendix, notes, bibliography and index. A few lines of high-lighting ending at p. 113, (I wonder if the student-owner stopped reading at that point), else near fine. Keating, Michael and David Bleiman Labour and Scottish Nationalism. Description: xii, 216 pp, with notes, index. Black cloth, spine title gilt. Upper corners bumped else near fine. "Account of Labour's stance on the Scottish question, drawing on original Labour Party and trade union records to trace the labour attitude to nationalism, Home Rule and devolution from the origins of independent labour to the present." Nearing, Scott Poverty and Riches: A Study of the Industrial Regime Description: 261, [3] pp. 16 black & white plates of photographs and pictures by Charles F. Weller, Lewis W. Hine, George Frederick Watts, W. Balfour Ker, and other artists. Includes index. Inscribed by Nearing on front pastedown. Printed handout from Scott and his first wife, Nettie Seeds Nearing, dated January 1, 1917 is pasted to ffep. (Handout shows the "Union Bug.") Green cloth with titles gilt on front panel and spine. Front board has attractive deco panels in green and gold: one shows tenaments and factory smokestacks, the other a mansion and gardens. The message is not exactly subtle, but the artwork is! Gently bumped corners and creased spine ends, VG+ Paustovsky, Konstantin Southern Adventure. Story of a Life. Description: 228 pp. "Southern Adventure is the fifth volume of Konstantin Paustovksy's Story of a Life...[It] describes life in theCaucasus in the early nineteen twenties." Slight spine slant. Light edge wear keeps the dustjacket from being Near Fine. Selekman, Ben M, & Mary Van Kleeck Employes' Representation in Coal Mines: a Study of the Industrial Representation Plan of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Comapny Description: xxxv, 454, [1] pp. Includes map, appendices and index. With publisher's advertisement tipped onto rear endpapers. Following the Ludlow Massacre, CFI and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the primary stockholder, developed the Employee Representation Plan (ERP), hoping to to win back public support through what they called a civilized approach to labor relations. This is a study of that plan. [Chafee, Pollack & Stern, consultants] The Mooney-Billings Report; Suppressed By the Wickersham Commission Description: iv, 243, [1] pp. Draft of Mooney-Billings Report submitted to the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement by it's Section of Lawless Enforcement of Law, June, 1931. This section was dropped from the 1932 Kenyon Report of the Commission findings. The suppressed report reviewed the 1916 convictions of labor activists Tom Mooney to death and Warren K. Billings to life in prison for a bombing in San Francisco. The case contained abuses so blatant, they were compared the Dreyfus case. Allegations of police and prosecutorial misconduct were so well documented that in1918, after intervention by President Wilson, Mooney's death sentence was commuted to life. A Time magazine story of 1/18/1932, quoted William D. Mitchell, Pres. Hoover's Attorney General about... a report made by a subcommittee of the Wickersham Commission on the Mooney-Billings case....Its conclusions: 1) "There was never any scientific attempt made either by the police or prosecution to discover the perpetrators of the crime"; 2) "there were flagrant violations of the statutory law of California by both police and prosecution"; 3) "witnesses were coached ... to a degree that approached subornation of perjury." In 1938, after they had served 22 years, California's new governor, Culbert Olson, ordered that Mooney and Billings be released. It all makes very lively reading, [and nice to know we once had an Attorney General who put justice first.] |
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