Argument in Defense of the Communists by Clarence Darrow. Charles H. Kerr Cooperative Publishers, Chicago. 1920.

Darrow displays all of his many talents in this speech to the jury in defense of the Communist Labor Party members William Bross Lloyd, Arthur Procter, Max Bedacht, Jack Carney, L. E. Katterfeld, L. K. England, Ludwig Lore, Edgar Owen, Niels Kjar, Perry Shipman, John Vogel, Samuel Hankin, Edwin Firth, James E. Meisinger, Samuel Ash, N. J. Christensen, Oscar Jesse Brown, Morris S. Stolar, Charles Krumbein and Karl F. Sandberg.

Argument of Clarence Darrow in the case of the Communist Labor Party in the Criminal Court. Chicago, August, 1920.

The Charles H. Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement.

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