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

Washington DC: Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 55pp. Mild external wear; Very Good. Red Scare-era primer on Communists: how to recognize them, how to beat them, around the world and in the woodpile. With laid-in mimeographed cover-letter by..... More

New York: Committee for Constitutional Government, 1946. First Edition. Anti-labor propaganda by the Committee for Constitutional Government, a far-right private industry group. Illustrated with a few halftones documenting atrocities committed by union picketers and organizers. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; 166pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked; text paper slightly aged, else Near..... More

[Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett, ca 1908]. Sole edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 229pp. Sturdy, clean and unmarked; a Very Good copy. Anti-socialist polemic by a proponent of laissez-faire economics: "...any interference with the management of private business on the part of government..... More

New York: Provisional Committee to Free Steve Nelson, 1953. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 30pp. Very Good. SEIDMAN F125: 'Denunciation of the trial and 20-year sentence of Steve Nelson, Pittsburgh Communist leader..." More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1947]. "Great Western Edition" Novel first published in 1919, "An anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE, pp. 239-40, and MILES 4995 for the first edition. Octavo (19.5cm.);..... More

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

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

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

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

Kenilworth, IL: by the Author, 1936. Solid copy of Dilling's 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." Later printing. Octavo (21cm). Original red cloth boards..... More

New York: The Christian Alliance Publishing Company, (1927). First Edition. Anti-bolshevik, anti-semitic novel, set as a "Christian romance" among students and faculty at the fictional "Union Bible Institute." Contemporary events are mentioned, including the Bridgman Raid and the "discovery" of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (a document..... More

[Boston]: George B. Hugo, 1909. First Edition. Full transcript of the debate, including occasional interjections from the audience. Since the volume was published at Mr. Hugo's expense, we may assume he thought himself the victor; though he notes in his foreword that "...they [the Socialists] submitted [their own] copy for..... More