Memorial Issue for Charles Emil Ruthenberg (1882-1927), founder and Executive Secretary of the Communist Party. James P. Cannon’s contribution linked to online text below.

Labor Defender. Vol. 2 No. 4. April, 1927.

Contents: Ruthernberg Under Fire by T.J. O’Flaherty, Maintain American Tradition of Political Asylum by Enea Sormenti, C.E. Ruthenberg by William Z Foster, The State Versus Thomas Reagan Textile Striker by Hollace Randsall, The Bloody Actions of the Lithuanian Hangman by W Miczkievitch-Kapaukas, Ruthernberg The Fighter Passing of an American Pioneer by James P. Cannon, Tributes to Ruthenberg, A Rebel Worker’s Life by Eugen Barnett, Voices from Prison, Letter, Building the ILD by Rose Karsner.

Labor Defender was published monthly from 1926 until 1937 by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a Workers Party of America, and later Communist Party-led, non-partisan defense organization founded by James Cannon and William Haywood while in Moscow, 1925 to support prisoners of the class war, victims of racism and imperialism, and the struggle against fascism. It included, poetry, letters from prisoners, and was heavily illustrated with photos, images, and cartoons. Labor Defender was the central organ of the Scottsboro and Sacco and Vanzetti defense campaigns. Editors included T. J. O’ Flaherty, Max Shactman, Karl Reeve, J. Louis Engdahl, William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, and Sender Garlin.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1927/v02n04-apr-1927-ORIG-LD.pdf