Labor Defender. Vol. 10 No. 7. July, 1934.

Contents: Views of the Month, International Ernst Thaelmann Campaign, Georgia Officials Ape Hitler Terror by Don West, August 1st, Toledo Judge Does His Part by Sam Stein, ‘You Are Not Foreigner’ by Gilbert Day, The Steel Trust’s Army by Pat Toohey, ‘Clear the Court!’ by Rose Leachy, Fourth of July 1934, Armies of Terror by William L. Patterson, International Red Aid, The ILD and the Dock Strike by Bruce Minton, Organizing Our Free Thaelmann Campaign by Anna Damon, Young Defenders Corner, Building the ILD, Voices from Prison.

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. Not only were these among the most successful campaigns by Communists, they were among the most important of the period and the urgency and activity is duly reflected in its pages. Editors included T. J. O’ Flaherty, Max Shactman, Karl Reeve, J. Louis Engdahl, William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, and Sender Garlin.

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