With Force And Violence

[New York: Workers Defense Union], N.d. [ca 1918]. Octavo bifolium handbill on newsprint; 4pp. Horizontal folds; paper age-toned; complete and Very Good. Handbill recruiting donations of moeny or labor to the Workers' Defense Union, a legal defense organization founded by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and others in 1918 to protect the rights of labor activists and political radicals. The WDU was absorbed into the ACLU in 1923. Text is by Ben Legere, a Canadian labor organizer and co-founder of the Canadian One Big Union (O.B.U.).