Labor Defender
Journal of the International Labor Defense
International Labor Defense (ILD) was the consolidated legal defense mass organization headed by the Workers Party of America from 1925. It replaced the Labor Defense Council, the WPA's previous mass organization formed for purposes of legal defense. The ILD began with a discussion between James P. Cannon and "Big Bill" Haywood in Haywood's room in Moscow in 1925. Cannon recalls that "the old fighter, who was exiled from America with a 20-year old sentence handing over him was deeply concerned about the persecution of workers in America. He wanted to have something done for the almost forgotten men lying in jail all over the country." [fn. James P. Cannon, The First Ten Years of American Communism. (NY: Lyle Stuart, 1960), pg. 162.] A plan was arrived at for a non-partisan body that would defend any member of the working class movement, without regard to personal political views. Any working class activist who came under the thumb of persecution by the capitalist legal system would be supported legally, morally, and financially. After preliminary negotiations in Moscow, an agreement was reached outlining the procedure for organizing the ILD and outlining its relationship to two Comintern-related international aid organizations, International Red Aid (MOPR) and International Worlers' Relief (WIR).
This magazine was published monthly by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a Communist Patry led partisan defense organization but, with broad based support and oversight, designed to provide legal assistance for strikers and other workers imprisoned during labor struggles.
The National Committee of the ILD over it's many years of publication included, among others: Upton Sinclair, Eugene V. Debs, Scott Nearing, Wm. Z. Foster, Robert W. Dunn, A. T. McNamara, Fred Merrick, Edw. C. Wentworth, Bishop Wm. M. Brown, Rose Karsner, William F. Dunne, George Maurer, Alice Stone Blackwell, Ellen Hayes, Chas. E. Ruthenberg, Robert Minor, Rose Baron, Wm. Mollenhauer, Henry Corbishley, Mandel Shuchter, Dan Stevens, Benj. Gitlow, Robert Whittaker, Cora Meyers, F. G. Biedenkapp, David Rhys Williams, Fred Mann, John Edenstrom, Dovett Port-Whelteman, Jacob Dolla, James P. Cannon, E. R. Meitzen, J. O. Bentall, Ralph Chanlin. Max Bedacht, William Bouck, John T. Taylor.
Special Note of thanks to the following individuals and institutions that made copies of the Labor Defender available and help scan and process them for this archive: Dr. Marty Goodman of the The Riazanov Project which produced all of the scans we present here, Rod Holt and David Walters from the the Holt Labor Library, and Tim Davenport of the Early American Marxism Archive. Very special thanks to Paul Thomas of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Library and Archives who kindly scanned over a dozen original color covers from the Hoover Library's holdings in the period of 1930 - 1933 which we added to our scans, allowing our scans (that were from the black and white Greenwood Reprint series) to show what the covers in that period really looked like.
As of April 21, 2016, the archive of Labor Defender presented here has been greatly revised and expanded.
As a result of a commitment by Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library project to upgrade scans that were made years ago, we are now pleased to present a whole new set of scans we spent the last year working on. This new Labor Defender digital archive differs from the old in that they are much higher resolution and they include the entire run of this publication (1926 - 1937). Previously we had lower quality scans, and only issues from 1926-1928, made exclusively from Greenwood Reprints.
Original paper issues of Labor Defender are extremely rare. We were not able to get access to much of it as original paper, for the originals tend to be squirreled away in special collections which jealously refuse to allow images of their holdings to be made and freely shared.
However, combining the personal holdings of original Labor Defender issues belonging to Marty Goodman and those of Holt Labor Library of San Francisco, were were able to scan from original paper roughly half of the issues in the first 3 years (1926 - 1928). Additionally, thanks to the kindness of Univeersity of California at Berkeley, we were able to scan bound volumes of original issues of Labor Defender for 1934-1937, thus presenting the rarely seen color covers and use of spot color in interior pages of these issues.
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Labor Defender Pamphlet Series
| Under Arrest! Worker’s Self-Defense in the Courts | 1928 |
| Smash the Frame up Against the Anthracite Miners— Free Boniat, Mendola and Moleski! | by B. F. Gebert, 1928 |
| Sedition to Protest and Organize Against War Hunger Unemployment | by J. L. Engdahl, 1930 |
| The Story of the Imperial Valley | by Frank Spector (with an introduction by John Dos Pasos)— I.L.D. Pamphlet No. 3, 1931 |
| Tampa’s Reign of Terror | by Anita Brenner and S. S. Windthrop, 1933 |
| Night Riders in Gallup | by Louis Colman. 1935 |
| You Cannot Kill the Working-Class | Angelo Herndon, 1936 |
Table of Contents
Jump to years: 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 |1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937
1926
Labor Defender
January 1926 Volume 1, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
February 1926 Volume 1, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
March 1926 Volume 1, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edward C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
April 1926 Volume 1, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
May 1926 Volume 1, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
June 1926 Volume 1, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
July 1926 Volume 1, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
August 1926 Volume 1, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
T. J. O' Flaherty, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
September 1926 Volume 1, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
October 1926 Volume 1, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
November 1926 Volume 1, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
December 1926 Volume 1, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Andrew T. McNamara, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
1927
Labor Defender
January 1927 Volume 2, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
February 1927 Volume 2, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
March 1927 Volume 2, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
April 1927 Volume 2, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
May 1927 Volume 2, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
June 1927 Volume 2, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
July 1927 Volume 2, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
August 1927 Volume 2, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
September 1927 Volume 2, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
October 1927 Volume 2, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
November 1927 Volume 2, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
December 1927 Volume 2, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
1928
Labor Defender
January 1928 Volume 3, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
February 1928 Volume 3, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
June 1928 Volume 3, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
July 1928 Volume 3, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
August 1928 Volume 3, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
September 1928 Volume 3, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
October 1928 Volume 3, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
November 1928 Volume 3, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
Max Shactman, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edw. C. Wentworth, Vice-Chariman; James P. Cannon, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
December 1928 Volume 3, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
George Maurer, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Norman T. Tallentire, Assistant Secretary; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
1929
Labor Defender
January 1929 Volume 4, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
February 1929 Volume 4, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
March 1929 Volume 4, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Norman Tallentire, Assistant Secretary; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
April 1929 Volume 4, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Edward Wright, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
May 1929 Volume 4, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Juliet Poyntz, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
June 1929 Volume 4, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Juliet Poyntz, Exectutive Secretary; Carl Kacker, Assistant Secretary.
Labor Defender
July 1929 Volume 4, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
August 1929 Volume 4, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
Karl Reeve, Editor
Walt Carmon, Bus. Mgr.
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; Alfred Wagenknect, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
September 1929 Volume 4, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chairman; J. Louis Engdahl, Executive Secretary.
Labor Defender
October 1929 Volume 4, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chairman; J. Louis Engdahl, Executive Secretary.
Labor Defender
November 1929 Volume 4, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; J. Louis Engdahl, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
December 1929 Volume 4, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; J. Louis Engdahl, Exectutive Secretary.
1930
Labor Defender
January 1930 Volume 5, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; J. Louis Engdahl, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
February 1930 Volume 5, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
National Officers:
Elizabeth Gurely Flynn, Chairman; Edward G. Wentworth, Vice Chariman; J. Louis Engdahl, Exectutive Secretary.
Labor Defender
March 1930 Volume 5, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; George Maurer, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
April 1930 Volume 5, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; George Maurer, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
May 1930 Volume 5, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
June 1930 Volume 5, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor.
Labor Defender
July 1930 Volume 5, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
August 1930 Volume 5, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
September 1930 Volume 5, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
October 1930 Volume 5, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sol Auerbach, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
November 1930 Volume 5, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sender Garlin, Associate Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
Labor Defender
December 1930 Volume 5, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
National Officers:
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary; Sam Darcy, Assistant Secretary; A. Jakira, Organizational Secretary.
1931
Labor Defender
January 1931 Volume 6, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
February 1931 Volume 6, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
March 1931 Volume 6, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
April 1931 Volume 6, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
May 1931 Volume 6, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
June 1931 Volume 6, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
July 1931 Volume 6, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
August 1931 Volume 6, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
September 1931 Volume 6, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
October 1931 Volume 6, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
November 1931 Volume 7, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
December 1931 Volume 7, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
1932
Labor Defender
January 1932 Volume 8, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
February 1932 Volume 8, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
March 1932 Volume 8, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
April 1932 Volume 8, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
May 1932 Volume 8, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
June 1932 Volume 8, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
July 1932 Volume 8, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
August 1932 Volume 8, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
September 1932 Volume 8, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Sender Garlin, Joseph North, Editors
Labor Defender
October 1932 Volume 8, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
November 1932 Volume 8, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
J. Louis Engdahl, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
No issue printed for December 1932.
1933
Labor Defender
January 1933 Volume 9, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
February 1933 Volume 9, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
March 1933 Volume 9, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
April 1933 Volume 9, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
[NOTE: the January issue is only 4 pages long]
William L. Patterson, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
May 1933 Volume 9, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
June 1933 Volume 9, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Joseph North, Editors
Louis Colman, Sasha Small, Associate Editors
Labor Defender
July 1933 Volume 9, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
August 1933 Volume 9, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
No issue printed for September 1933
Labor Defender
October 1933 Volume 9, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
November 1933 Volume 9, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
[NOTE: the November issue is only 4 pages long]
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
December 1933 Volume 9, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
1934
Labor Defender
January 1934 Volume 10, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
[NOTE: the January issue is only 4 pages long]
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
February 1934 Volume 10, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
March 1934 Volume 10, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
April 1934 Volume 10, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
May 1934 Volume 10, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
June 1934 Volume 10, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
July 1934 Volume 10, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
No issue printed for August 1934
Labor Defender
September 1934 Volume 10, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
October 1934 Volume 10, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
November 1934 Volume 10, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
December 1934 Volume 10, No. 1q
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Sender Garlin, Managing Editor
1935
Labor Defender
January 1935 Volume 11, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Nichola Wirth, Managing Editor
Limbach, Art Editor
Labor Defender
February 1935 Volume 11, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Nichola Wirth, Managing Editor
Limbach, Art Editor
Labor Defender
March 1935 Volume 11, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Nichola Wirth, Managing Editor
Limbach, Art Editor
Labor Defender
April 1935 Volume 11, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Nichola Wirth, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
May 1935 Volume 11, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Nichola Wirth, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
June 1935 Volume 11, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Nichola Wirth, Managing Editor
Labor Defender
July 1935 Volume 11, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
August 1935 Volume 11, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
September 1935 Volume 11, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
October 1935 Volume 11, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
November 1935 Volume 11, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
December 1935 Volume 11, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
1936
Labor Defender
January 1936 Volume 12, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
February 1936 Volume 12, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
March 1936 Volume 12, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, Editors
Louis Colman, Associate Editor
Labor Defender
April 1936 Volume 12, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Louis Colman, Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
May 1936 Volume 12, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Louis Colman, Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
June 1936 Volume 12, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Ned Hilton, William Peterson, Jerre Magione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
July 1936 Volume 12, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
August 1936 Volume 12, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
September 1936 Volume 12, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
October 1936 Volume 12, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
NOTE: no issue was printed for this November of 1936
Labor Defender
December 1936 Volume 12, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
1937
Labor Defender
January 1937 Volume 12, No. 12
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
February 1937 Volume 13, No. 1
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
March 1937 Volume 13, No. 2
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
April 1937 Volume 13, No. 3
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
May 1937 Volume 13, No. 4
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
June 1937 Volume 13, No. 5
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
July 1937 Volume 13, No. 6
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
August 1937 Volume 13, No. 7
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
September 1937 Volume 13, No. 8
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
October 1937 Volume 13, No. 9
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
November 1937 Volume 13, No. 10
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank
Labor Defender
December 1937 Volume 13, No. 11
Published by the International Labor Defense
Sasha Small, Editor
Chester Arthor, Jr., Pacifica Coast Editor
Editorial Board: Nathan Asch, Louis Colman, Anna Damon, Joseph Freeman, Jerre Mangione, Robert Minor, Maurice Rosenfield, Walter Wilson.
Contributing Editors: Jack Conroy, Langston Huges, John Howard Lawson, Waldo Frank