The One Big Union Monthly. New Series [Second Series]. Run of 13 nearly consecutive monthly issues, spanning from January 1937 (Vol. 1, No. 1) to February 1938 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
- Magazine
- Chicago, Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World [IWW / I.W.W.], 1938
Chicago, Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World [IWW / I.W.W.], 1938. Magazine. Good. Thirteen issues. All issues: 34 pp.; small quarto [27 cm]; saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers. Profusely illustrated. Rare.
Condition is mostly Good or slightly worse, some Very Good. Some age-toning (occasional brittling) to paper is consistent throughout. Some wear, minor splitting, and chipping around edges also consistent. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. Further notable condition remarks listed with each issue below.
–Volume 1, Number 1. January 1937. (Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 2. February 1937. (Wraps at fold splitting. Some soiling.)
–Volume 1, Number 3. March 1937. (Lightly foxed on front wrap.)
–Volume 1, Number 4. April 1937. (Wraps are completely split and detached cleanly at the fold, but present.)
–Volume 1, Number 5. May 1937. (Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 6. June 1937. (Corners bumped. Some print offsetting to internal pages.)
–Volume 1, Number 7. July 1937. (Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 8. August 1937. (Good to Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 9. September 1937. (Fair only. Wraps are completely split and detached cleanly at the fold, but present. Some other chipping, splitting, toning, brittling, etc.)
–Volume 1, Number 11. November 1937. (Fair only. Wraps are split, detached, but present. Age-toning and brittling.)
–Volume 1, Number 12. December 1937. (Fair only. Wraps are split, detached, but present. Age-toning and brittling.)
–Volume 2, Number 1. January 1938. (Rear wrap is missing. Front wrap detached but present. Age-toning, brittling.)
–Volume 2, Number 2. February 1938. (Wraps cleanly split, detached, but present.). A nice run of this official monthly publication, "Issued by Industrial Workers of the World to promote the solidarity of labor."
Illustrated with many cartoons, drawings, and black and white photographs. Issues contain a variety of IWW reporting, editorial, organizing efforts, and other literary contributions. This "New Series" or "Second Series" of The One Big Union Monthly was the official monthly periodical of The Industrial Workers of the World which ran for eighteen issues from January 1937 to June 1938. This publication was preceded by The Industrial Pioneer (which ran February 1921 to September 1926, though publication was suspended for fifteen month from February 1922 through April 1923) and by the "First Series" of The One Big Union Monthly (which ran March 1919 to January 1921).
It is immediately noticeable how many of the contributors and artists signed their work using pseudonyms, their IWW card numbers, or simply chose to remain uncredited, more than likely due to the repression and fear of retribution that unions (especially IWW members) faced during this time in American history. Furthermore, it seems as though the canons and biographies of many of the highly accomplished cartoonists and illustrators featured in this publication (artists such as Pashtanika, Dust [Wallin], [Fred] Jerger, among several others uncredited or unidentifiable to us) remain surprisingly under-documented and/or inaccessible to our online research attempts while cataloguing. Although we must note here that the website "Cartooning Capitalism" created by Michael Mark Cohen does provide some good coverage on the subject (https://www.cartooningcapitalism.com/). Franklin Rosemont's 1987 essay "A Short Treatise on Wobbly Cartoons" sheds good light on the subject as well — Rosemont's essay is reprinted in more recent editions of Joyce L. Kornbluh's classic work "Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology" (PM Press, 2011).
Miles 4778.
Condition is mostly Good or slightly worse, some Very Good. Some age-toning (occasional brittling) to paper is consistent throughout. Some wear, minor splitting, and chipping around edges also consistent. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. Further notable condition remarks listed with each issue below.
–Volume 1, Number 1. January 1937. (Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 2. February 1937. (Wraps at fold splitting. Some soiling.)
–Volume 1, Number 3. March 1937. (Lightly foxed on front wrap.)
–Volume 1, Number 4. April 1937. (Wraps are completely split and detached cleanly at the fold, but present.)
–Volume 1, Number 5. May 1937. (Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 6. June 1937. (Corners bumped. Some print offsetting to internal pages.)
–Volume 1, Number 7. July 1937. (Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 8. August 1937. (Good to Very Good.)
–Volume 1, Number 9. September 1937. (Fair only. Wraps are completely split and detached cleanly at the fold, but present. Some other chipping, splitting, toning, brittling, etc.)
–Volume 1, Number 11. November 1937. (Fair only. Wraps are split, detached, but present. Age-toning and brittling.)
–Volume 1, Number 12. December 1937. (Fair only. Wraps are split, detached, but present. Age-toning and brittling.)
–Volume 2, Number 1. January 1938. (Rear wrap is missing. Front wrap detached but present. Age-toning, brittling.)
–Volume 2, Number 2. February 1938. (Wraps cleanly split, detached, but present.). A nice run of this official monthly publication, "Issued by Industrial Workers of the World to promote the solidarity of labor."
Illustrated with many cartoons, drawings, and black and white photographs. Issues contain a variety of IWW reporting, editorial, organizing efforts, and other literary contributions. This "New Series" or "Second Series" of The One Big Union Monthly was the official monthly periodical of The Industrial Workers of the World which ran for eighteen issues from January 1937 to June 1938. This publication was preceded by The Industrial Pioneer (which ran February 1921 to September 1926, though publication was suspended for fifteen month from February 1922 through April 1923) and by the "First Series" of The One Big Union Monthly (which ran March 1919 to January 1921).
It is immediately noticeable how many of the contributors and artists signed their work using pseudonyms, their IWW card numbers, or simply chose to remain uncredited, more than likely due to the repression and fear of retribution that unions (especially IWW members) faced during this time in American history. Furthermore, it seems as though the canons and biographies of many of the highly accomplished cartoonists and illustrators featured in this publication (artists such as Pashtanika, Dust [Wallin], [Fred] Jerger, among several others uncredited or unidentifiable to us) remain surprisingly under-documented and/or inaccessible to our online research attempts while cataloguing. Although we must note here that the website "Cartooning Capitalism" created by Michael Mark Cohen does provide some good coverage on the subject (https://www.cartooningcapitalism.com/). Franklin Rosemont's 1987 essay "A Short Treatise on Wobbly Cartoons" sheds good light on the subject as well — Rosemont's essay is reprinted in more recent editions of Joyce L. Kornbluh's classic work "Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology" (PM Press, 2011).
Miles 4778.