Washington DC: AFL-CIO, (1957). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 27pp. Fine copy. Attack on the anti-labor policies of the Taft-Hartley Act on the tenth anniversary of its passage. Illustrated throughout with terrific mid-century illustrations. Foreword by Albert Whitehouse, Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department. More about Industrial Unions and Taft-Hartley

Chicago: F.J. Schulte, 1889. First Edition. Essential, if self-serving, account of the Haymarket massacre and subsequent trials, written by the Chicago police captain who served as the lead investigator in the months following the bombing. During the course of his investigation Schaack was dismissed from the force for fabricating evidence;... More about Anarchy and Anarchists. A history of the Red Terror and the social revolution in America and...

N.p. Anti-Communist Seal Co., 1948. Unused sheet of twenty identical stamps with gummed versos, each with a portrait of Uncle Sam beside the legend: "Stop Communism! Go The American Way of Life!" Copyright 1948 by the "Anti-Communist Seal Company. Slight discoloration to upper margin of sheet, else very Near Fine... More about Stop Communism! [Complete (?) Sheet of 20 Anti-Communist Stamps Issued by The Anti-Communist Seal...

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 227pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in unworn jacket; near-new. More about Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era

San Diego: Danielle Publishers, 1938. First Edition. Tabloid (44cm) bifolium; 4pp. On newsprint. Newsprint slightly browned, a little tender at folds with brief splits at outer margin; Good or better. Christian-right attack against communist influence in schools, encroaching "modernism." OCLC locates no institutional copies as of September, 2015. More about An Appeal To America [...] Plan Christian Action Against Anti-Christ Educational System

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1958. First Edition. Investigation Of Soviet Espionage (Parts I & II); Investigation of Communist Infiltration and Propaganda Activities in Basic Industry (Gary, Ind., Area); Investigation of Communist Activities in the New England Area (Parts I-III); Communist Propaganda, Part 9: Student Groups, Distributors, and Propagandists; Communism... More about Spine Title] Investigation of Un-American Activities. Volume XXIX: 1958

Chicago: By the Company, 1888. A broadside missive by Charles Elliott Perkins, President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, issued at the conclusion of the momentous 1888 Burlington Strike, one of the bloodiest labor actions up to the time and one which set a pattern for the strike-breaking industry... More about To all persons employed upon The Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad

Boston: Richard Badger, 1912. First Edition. Plea for a volunteer militia movement, well-illustrated with 15 leaves of halftone plates. Includes a chapter on Strike Duty, which the author calls "the worst kind of duty that can fall to the lot of the soldier." Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, spine lettered... More about Tin Soldiers: The Organized Militia and What It Really Is

Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1905. First Edition. Strike novel with a strong anti-union message, set in the coal fields of southern Illinois. SMITH C-724. HANNA 788. Not in Blake. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; [iv], [1]-415 + 2pp... More about The Grapple: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region [&c

New York: Manhattanville Press, 1919. First Edition. Anti-Socialist dystopia, described by Lewis as "dull, and not only anti-Socialist, but anti-feminist and anti-Irish as well." Pallen (1858-1929) was a prolific Catholic writer; as Chairman of the National Civic Federation's Department of Subversive Movements, he proved an "indignant foe of restricted immigration... More about Crucible Island: A Romance, an Adventure and an Experiment

Kenilworth, IL: by the Author, 1934. Sixth (1936) Printing. Oft-reprinted manual for red-baiters. SEIDMAN D200: "...lists 450 organizations and 1,300 individuals under the communist label, applying this term indiscriminately to all types of social reform as well as to radical groups." Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's red cloth in yellow pictorial dust... More about The Red Network: A "Who's Who" and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots

New York: James A. McCann, 1920. First Edition. Delaware author's scarce second book, an anti-IWW novel with an "America First" theme, set among the Colorado mine wars of 1913-14 and clearly written at the height of the first Red Scare. In his foreword the author states: "...it remains for us...[to... More about Jim Lofton, American

New York: Madison & Marshall, 1936. Second printing, same year as first. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 236pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in original pictorial dustwrapper by Harry Douglas, slightly worn and darkened on spine. Presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "The very best luck in the world for America first... More about Fools Gold. An Exposé of Un-American Activities and Political Action in the United States since...