Life story of a commercial artist turned poet, cartoonist and journalist, tracing his early life and labor radicalism which leads him to a high position in the IWW and eventually hard time at Leavenworth for opposing US involvement in WW1. After release he becomes increasingly disenchanted with growing Comintern influence in the US labor movement and politics and actively opposes it during the 1930s and WW2. A great look at his life and times and up close views of Eugene Debs and big Bill Haywoo
Life story of a commercial artist turned poet, cartoonist and journalist, tracing his early life and labor radicalism which leads him to a high position in the IWW and eventually hard time at Leavenworth for opposing US involvement in WW1. After release he becomes increasingly disenchanted with growing Comintern influence in the US labor movement and politics and actively opposes it during the 1930s and WW2. A great look at his life and times and up close views of Eugene Debs and big Bill Haywood.
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