Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964. First Edition. Quarto with red cloth boards and pictoral pink/white/black jacket; red and black endpapers; xii, 419 pages: illustrations, portraits; 29 cm. DJ is VG (-), had open tears on upper and lower front edge, some scuffing near foot of spine; now protected in archival mylar; a VG (+) copy with sunning where DJ tears exposed boards, clean and tight inside with no markings or loose pages. Hardcover.

"Rebel Voices is the story of the I.W.W., as told by the Wobblies. Here, too, are the poems of Ralph Chaplin-- author of "Solidarity Forever", labor's most famous anthem; songs, poems, and articles by Joe Hill; the satires of T-Bone Slim; the courtroom testimony of Arturo Giovannitti; and the popular "Mr. Block" cartoons drawn by Ernest Riebe." --Jacket copy. Jacket design by Quentin Fiore.

Contents: One big union: the philosophy of industrial unionism. With folded arms: the tactics of direct action. Riding the rails: I.W.W. itinerants. Soapbox militants: free speech campaigns 1908-1916. Joe Hill: wobbly bard. Bread and roses: the 1912 Lawrence textile strike. Paterson: 1913. Organizing the harvest stiffs. Lumberjacks: north and south. Down in the mines. Behind bars: war and prison. An I.W.W. miscellany: 1924-1964. Language of the migratory worker.