Industrial Workers of the World

Incomparable, unintentionally ironic, and beautiful. This was the IWW's brief effort to revive the old OBU Monthly which had expired in the years of the criminal syndicalism prosecutions, and the disastrous ""EP" vs "Four-Trey" split. It is ironic in that so many resources were plowed into this effort at a time when they were probably best employed elsewhere. Still, they remain a wonderful source, not merely for the historian but for the general reader with a conscience and a fighting spirit.

A fascinating document for the labor-history specialist, but because of its concision, not anything like the compelling read like some comparable documents from other years. The IWW was very much alive and active, but one pretty-well has to read between the lines of this Report to grasp that. Incidentally, Joseph Wagner awaits his biographer. His career in the labor movement extends back to the early part of the Twentieth Century, and while many Wobblies were multi-lingual, he had the show more curious distinction of doing propaganda work in English, German -- and Romanian, for he was, despite his Teutonic-sounding name, a Romanian show less

An incomparable resource, and damn' fine reading too. It should be recalled that this was the time of the great split in the One Big Union, and the duration of the Convention is only one small evidence of that.

Chicago. 4to. Wraps. Mimeographed. G , dampstains, torn r. cover. This Sixties I.W.W. publication was edited by Tor Fagere, and shows the young Chicago Wobbly interest in surrealism. This issue has art and writing by Frank Rosemont, a brief memoir of anarchist cultural legend T-bone Slim, etc.